Wednesday, 15 April 2009

• The Fair Tax

  Is there such a thing?

  I'm beginning to wonder.  Click here to read a cute poem about the number of taxes that an American citizen pays over the course of his/her lifetime. 

  Boortz's book proposes a viable alternative and is at least worth your consideration.

  The FairTax:

  • Enables workers to keep their entire paychecks
  • Enables retirees to keep their entire pensions
  • Refunds in advance the tax on purchases of basic necessities
  • Allows American products to compete fairly
  • Brings transparency and accountability to tax policy
  • Ensures Social Security and Medicare funding
  • Closes all loopholes and brings fairness to taxation
  • Abolishes the IRS

   

  More than ever, knowledge is power .... and on this auspcious day, if the combined amount of tax you've paid to federal, state, and local governments is not on the tip of your tongue, then we are far from solving the problem.

  The situation is out of control.

  “No people ever recognize their dictator in advance.  He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship.  He always represents himself as the instrument [of] the Incorporated National Will. ... When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American.  And nobody will ever say `Heil' to him, nor will they call him `Führer' or `Duce.' But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike bleat of `O.K., Chief! Fix it like you wanna, Chief! Oh Kaaaay!'" 

  1937 quote from Dorothy Thompson, American journalist, who was noted by Time magazine in 1939 as one of the two most influential women in America.

   

  Currently The Fair Tax Book: Saying Goodbye to the Income Tax and the IRS By Neal Boortz, John Linder see related

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