Flat Tax vs. National Sales Tax

This Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation brief video explains how the current tax system is deeply flawed and argues that either the flat tax or the national sales tax (sometimes known as the Fair Tax) would be a substantial improvement over the current internal revenue code. However, the video warns that a sales tax should only be adopted if the Constitution is amended to prevent politicians from imposing both an income tax and sales tax, similar to what happened in Europe. For more information please visit the CF&P Foundation's web site: www.freedomandprosperity.org

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[Devildonk]

Contrarian, I believe that you're wrong for the simple reason that most illegal immigrants are incredibly frugal, spend the bare minimum required for survival, and send the majority of the money that they earn back home to be spent into the economy of their own country.

[FairTaxisaLie]

B17Boy is typical of FT/NASTI supporters-- he will clamor on how opponents are somehow "socialists " for "class warfare", when it is he who is for class warfare-- wanting to greatly lower the taxes of the wealthy and increase the taxes of those making from $15k to $15k a year. That IS warfare, declared on the middleclass,who struggle to get by. He is for a feudal plutocracy, and imagines that somehow he could buy everything used (rent?food?utilities?medicine?­doctors bills?) to avoid taxation.

[cyborganic99]

Both are garbage. The progressive tax does not discourage success, You will always judge your own success relative to your peers. This vid is just a simple trap with simple WEAK arguments targeted at the feeble mined.

[TMBrd89]

Didn't Iceland go bankrupt?

[Nervousification]

@VictoryRepublican There's no real difference between Republicans and Democrats. Either way they're represented by the elite and are only going to do what it takes to make money. That's their job. Perry seems to be the biggest Chronie on the list right now, and he'll probably become the candidate. By the way, I hope you don't actually think your vote matters, unless you're a part of the electoral college that is.

[1isaM111er]

Flat Tax

[KenMacMillan]

@ttannyhill The states would get their money through whatever means its citizens permit, preferably a flat tax of some type. The money for all federal expenditures would come from the states. In order to make this work we'd have to decide on what exactly we want the federal government to do and amend article 1 sec. 8 & 9 accordingly. We'd also have to repeal the 16th & 17th amendments to the constitution & we'd have to so I'm not getting my hopes up. It would take 100 years to make it happen.

[ttannyhill]

Interesting. As a Californian, I could get on that bandwagon. Many of our dollars go to state that hate us for our freedom and lifestyle.

Question, how do we raise money for defense or infrastructure. The private sector does not fund these types of things.

[ttannyhill]

The current system, and the past system was developed by Republicans. Don't burn books read them.

As a liberal, I am in favor of a national tax. However as the conservative economist Thomas Sowell points out in his book Knowledge and Decision, you have to ask the question "Then what happens?"

BTW, how can anyone vote for a candidate that wants to secede from the US. I did not join the military to fight for traitors like him

[VictoryRepublican]

The Democrats like the current tax system because it lets them impose their socialist transfer of wealth.

PERRY FOR PRESIDENT!!!