Lunch&Taxes COLLECTED

A FairTax Rep and a US Tax Code Rep answer tax questions over lunch. "WHAT DO YOU NEED TO GET YOUR TAXES COLLECTED?"

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[FairTaxHub]

Posts including profanity and personal attacks have been and will continue to be removed.

FairTaxHUB is meant to push the FairTax conversation forward. The FairTax idea is powerful and would revolutionize this country economically and by extension socially. The current system is punishing work ethic and ambition...the very things a slowing economy needs more of. We at the HUB are not focused on what the tax percentage is or if government taxes its own services. Its the overall idea we need.

[Robert Williams]

The FairTax favors ALL LEGAL US CITIZENS. If you live here or visit here, you will pay the same taxes, regardless. What that does is puts illegal immigrants and the underground economy on the same, level, playing field as us Americans. Illegal Immigrants don't pay income taxes because they can't report income, drug dealers don't report income made on selling drugs, and prostitutes don't report income on what they earn. BUT! They ALL have to buy things to survive.

[sly14all]

Not true. The fairtax plan rebates directly to everyone enough to cover all taxes paid for low income spending. If that's all you spend, you will pay no net taxes. But for everything you spend above that level, you pay full taxes, with no deductions.

[MrClark46902]

Research embedded taxes. You are already paying much more the just your income taxes. The fairtax eliminates all of the hidding of taxation and it is right up front. The rich do not do better but most everyone else does.

[Gary Alan Adkins]

No IRS! That is a plus for me. You will only be taxed on new items you buy. We are going to be taxed anyway. There will be no need for the Gestapo ( IRS ). The Governments private army of enforcers. Buy Used & Barter. With a fair tax there are unlimited ways around paying too much. With the IRS you have 1 choice. Pay or be punished!

[cajun812]

AMERICA became prosperous BECAUSE of industrious PEOPLE. We started off in a wild, untamed country and PEOPLE it, not bureaucrats. This country was founded on NATURAL RIGHTS - that is, GOD-GIVEN rights of individuals NOT to be punished for whatever talents they have been blessed with (not their doing) and APPLYING it. Charity is a moral responsibility, not a crooked politicians mandate. It is WRONG to force individuals to pay for subjects or ideals they do not agree with.

[gemini1766]

This is the USA, the wealthy got that way because of how great a country we have, let them pay for that priviledge. Regan had them paying 36%, and under Ike they were paying 90%. Let's go to a nice even 50% and tax the hell out of inheratence over $10Million in total (not to each individual) at 75%. Those people did not earn the parents' money, after all.

[gemini1766]

The "Fair Tax" system favors those who make lots of money, as their purchases do not make up a considerable portion of their yearly income, unlike the average person who currently has to watch every penny. Such Taxes are not fair. They only appear to be, and when you find that such a tax has been implimented, it's too late to change it in a reasonable amount of time. The rich are better off while the rest of us get rolled, again.

[MagnusIan]

The IRS and the current US tax system can go fuck themselves.

[dtvgmedia]

Not only that, but it already collects taxes from government spending through embedded taxes in government purchases and taxes on government employee wages.