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THE FAIR TAX PLAN 4/13/2009 5:53:40 AM
No matter what your political frame of mind, if you are an American you either lately or for many years have had to contend with the IRS. And no matter under whose administration you claim you were better off, you have always had to submit on bended knee to the whims, wiles, and wishes of the Internal Revenue Service.
How often have you thought: there must be a better way!?!?
What if (the magic American phrase) you were allowed to keep every dime you earned and had 100% of your money to save or spend as you saw fit? . . . What if there was a way you could pay your fair share to keep the country solvent—and still have your money in your pocket or in the bank or working for you in sensible investments? . . . What if you never had to worry about the viability of Social Security or the availability of needed health care?
Consummations devoutly to be wished!
For years, I have spent hours (an average of more than 70 annually) laboring over income tax returns for myself and select members of my immediate family. Some are as mindless as simple arithmetic, while others are complex and endlessly time consuming. And there’s always the possibility of the careless digit that, like an innocent nut dropped unintentionally into the fan of a jet engine, can send the whole mechanism into an irrecoverable tailspin!
For example, on my daughter’s return this year I accidentally transposed her husband’s social security number. This easily correctable faux pas threw the IRS into a tizzy, and her refund was needlessly held up for several weeks while they (and we) initiated a full-scale investigation. Right, it was all my fault—but the point is, it’s all so unnecessary.
The Fair Tax Plan as prescribed by Congressman John Linder and associates could be the answer to all our woes. Have you read his two books on the subject co-authored by radio broadcast icon, Neal Boortz? If not, shame on you.
Here’s what you’d get if the IRS were dissolved and the Fair Tax Plan instituted:
1. No more withholding money from your earnings
2. No more income tax forms to fill out and submit
3. No more direct taxes of any kind imposed by the federal government
Here’s what Uncle Sam would get:
1. More money in its treasury than ever received from income tax
2. More jobs than it could fill for displaced IRS workers, former tax preparers, CPAs, accountants, and tax attorneys
3. More money than it can find ways to spend for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and general health insurance premiums
4. More of everything it gets now through an antiquated, mandated income tax
How?
1. A simple 23% sales tax on everything you purchase
Hold on! A 23% increase in the price of everything I buy? You kidding? You nuts? My grocery bill now is $612.43 a month—you want me to spend $753.29? My car cost me $27,864. Your idea would raise it to $34,272.72! Get lost!
You sound just like a Washington bureaucrat, and of course, you are completely dead wrong. Yours is the typical knee-jerk reaction of everybody who has no concept how the Fair Tax Plan will work. Complicated? Only to politicos who can’t see the forest for the trees! Read all the details of collection, distribution, and administration in Rep. Linder’s two books.
Who would be against it? Mainly the power-grubbing politicians, of course, because without the IRS, some federal and certain state elected representatives would be emasculated and out of control. And in many cases, out of office—as they should be.
No, the Fair Tax is not perfect, but if it’s a 9.3 (on the Richer Scale,) the Internal Revenue Code is a 1.4; it may be our last hope as citizens of a country that is being suffocated by a political juggernaut run amuck. The current economic system of mindless taxation is the poisonous fuel sustaining that juggernaut, and the Fair Tax Plan is the antidote. If you can’t afford copies of the books after April 15, borrow ‘em from your public library.
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