H.R. 25 is the bill number for the alleged fair tax which Huckabee supports. As we shall learn, there is something H.R. 25 has in common with the recent amnesty bill which fortunately went down in flames, but only did so once the American People were exposed to its details. The old saying goes “the Devil is in the details”.


Like the amnesty bill the TEXT OF H.R.25 is far different than its fairy tale version panhandled by Huckabee, Linder, Boortz, and countless fair tax cultists which make up a majority of Huckabee’s supporters. As a matter of fact, Huckabee’s base support is a paper tiger made up of uninformed fair tax cultists.


Ring leaders who are pushing the alleged fair tax have suckered millions of people into believing H.R. 25 will end Congress’s power to lay and collect taxes calculated from profits, gains, salaries and other incomes. But this turns out to be a con job and is the primary gimmick used to lure supporters.


The unfortunate truth is, there is nothing in the text of the proposal to end Congress's power to lay taxes calculated from profits, gains salaries and other incomes! In fact, a reading of the text of H.R. 25 reveals it proposes to establish an additional tax in America for Mary and Joe Sixpack to pay ___ a 23 percent tax upon the sale of property, real and personal, while H.R. 25 keeps alive Congress’s power to lay and collect taxes calculated from profits, gains, salaries and other incomes.


Ask a fair tax cultist where the proposal withdraws from Congress’s power the ability to lay and collect taxes calculated from profits, gains salaries and other incomes and they point to a section in the text which merely proposes to put a temporary moratorium on a few specific taxes which are calculated from incomes. Keep in mind there is nothing in the text of H.R. 25 prohibiting a future Congress to reactivate the specific taxes temporarily suspended after a number of years pass if H.R. 25 were adopted and Mary and Joe Sixpack get used to paying the 23 percent tax.


Of course, if the ringleaders were sincere about wanting to end taxes calculated from incomes, an accomplishment which every freedom loving person would want, they could have provided a stipulation in the text of H.R. 25 prohibiting its enforcement if passed by Congress until a constitutional amendment is ratified withdrawing from Congress’s power the ability to calculate taxes from profits, gains, salaries and other incomes!


So tell us Mike old boy, why do you support a proposal which would establish an additional tax in America, without a stipulation in the proposal that it cannot be enforced if passed until a constitutional amendment is adopted removing from Congress’s power the ability to lay and collect taxes calculated from profits, gains, salaries, wages, tips, inheritances and other lawfully realized money? Tell us Mr. Huckabee, are you in disagreement with the wisdom of Jefferson?


"In matters of Power, let no more be heard of confidence in men, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution"?


Another remarkable thing with the alleged fair tax is, many of its supporters are unaware the federal government’s intrusion into their lives would not be ended! One of the big selling features of the alleged fair tax which Huckabee panhandles is, it will close down the IRS and end the federal government intrusion into our lives!


But it is interesting to note that Huckabee while telling us the IRS would be closed down, does not tell us two new federal tax collecting agencies would be created under his alleged fair tax:



So, although the IRS may be closed down under the alleged fair tax, its employees are merely move to two new tax collecting agencies from which they will still harass the people. And, this does not even take into account the tax enforcers who will still be operating under the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms!


What Huckabee forgot to tell his supporters is, under his supported tax plan, the property which a teenage girl has in her labor when she baby sits for a neighbor is taxed as a “taxable service, and see becomes subject to the iron fist of government as a tax collector selling a taxable service!


The truth is, any individual who may lend their talents [carpentry, plumbing, electrical, auto repair, ground maintenance, painting, baby sitting, manicures, hair dresser, etc.] out to another individual for fair market value compensation, is subject to the iron fist of the feds under the proposed H.R. 25. Here are some applicable citations from the proposed legislation:

Aside from the above stated problems with the alleged fair tax, one must also ask why Huckabee supports a proposal which would create a massive, factious and dangerous voting constituency dependent upon a monthly government check? H.R. 25’s family consumption allowance proposes to send a monthly government check to every household in America to offset the 23 percent tax which H.R. 25 would impose upon the necessities of life.


If one believes Social Security has become a troublesome and financially crushing third rail entitlement, just think of the consequences which a monthly entitlement geared to every household in America would bring.


Truth is, the family consumption entitlement would be a gift to Senator Ted Socialist Kennedy and his disciples in Congress who would gladly promise to increase the family consumption allowance during election time to buy votes and remain in power!


Is it that difficult to picture Ted Socialist Kennedy on the Senate Floor giving a speech to increase the family consumption allowance during election time to offset the 23 percent tax upon the necessities of life which H.R. 25 proposes to tax?



Is this what Huckabee wants to create? A massive and dangerous voting constituency dependent upon government for its subsistence which the Washington Establishment will be able to manipulate during elections to keep themselves in power?


Were we not warned in the Federalist Papers that control over a man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will?


JWK


If we can make the majority of America’s population dependent upon a monthly federal government check, [H.R. 25’s family consumption allowance which Huckabee supports], we can then bribe them for their vote, keep ourselves in power, and keep the remaining portion of America’s population enslaved to pay the bills.