A national sales tax is coming. It is time to choose. Which one will you prefer?

 by Danny N Diana Higgins on Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 9:42pm

It is inevitable. You may want to share this bit of information with your friends and family because unless they have been following every second of whats been happening inside the beltway for the last few years they probably do not know this but, one way or the other, we are going to end up with a national sales tax in the very near future. (more…)

RE: Six Reasons Why The FairTax Is A Really Bad Idea

The reason I’m posting this here is because, as you can see, my rebuttal to Alex Kauffman’s post “Six Reasons Why The FairTax Is A Really Bad Idea” is quite lengthy. The Blogger interface, although very easy to log in with my OpenID, limits posts to 4,096 characters. This was well over 11,000; so I would have had to split it into 3 separate responses. Besides, I get to format it the way I want now. Sorry Alex, posting here was by far the simplest option. (more…)

Reasoning Out the FairTax

Reason Magazine did far more emoting than reasoning in their recent (May, 2011)  article on the FairTax, Fair Tax Fouls.  Instead of using logic and analysis of the benefits or drawbacks of the FairTax compared to our current, antiquated system of income taxation, or contrasting the FairTax with other tax reform proposals, Tim Cavanaugh chose to focus on phantasms and boogey men in constructing his rationale for dismissing the FairTax. (more…)

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