Originally Posted by Anikdote

To do so they had to quote the Fair Tax as exclusive, just likes he's attempting to do here. To Joe Average, he would walk up to the counter at a store, purchase a $100 item for $100 dollars. What the man actually paid was $23 in tax and $77 dollars for the item.

Here is how bel is trying to misrepresent this. He's saying that when you go to the counter and buy the item for $100 they're going to tack on an additional tax at the counter, which is false. You pay what the item costs, the Fair Tax is included in the price of the product. The price of good will be reduced because the tax's incurred during the production process would be obsolete.

Three things:

1. Is the current tax plan we have better or worse than the Fair Tax? If it's better then please explain why.

2. Is it really so out of the question to ask that our government reduce their spending, I mean hello folks, we're 9 trillion dollars in debt and counting.

3. The Fair Tax is by far the most transparent system and easy to follow, the current tax code is a few thousand pages and crammed full of loopholes and tax breaks. It's time to level the playing field.

Originally Posted by KSigMason

I think a flat tax (%) is a fair tax. We all pay according to our income - it helps the less fortunate.

Originally Posted by algranny

1. Fair Tax sets a tax on only new item sales, there would be no tax on used products sold. Rebates are sent to people in lower pay wages to compensate for taxes paid. ALthough I don't have all the answers, I have read many debates regarding the fair tax. There is a website for more info.
2. Yes, I do support it. It would be a huge savings to our country and a great sigh of relief to be rid of the IRS
3. Rich people who spend the most money on luxury would pay the most taxes. Drug dealers, pimps, illegal aliens all would pay taxes on the amount purchased. Less loopholes, tax shelters.

Originally Posted by Whaler17

democrats will never let that happen! They simply cannot fund their "welfare for votes" campaigns with the limited funds such a system would provide!