fairtax.org

It’s worth investigating

Note as this is a blog and everyone has odd opinions on blogs, if you happen to like drugs or even heroin and feel that it should be legalized, well each unto their own. That said for purposes of making my point please substitute heroin and drug dealing with land mines and arms dealing to to warlords or selling dirty bomb material to terrorists or anything in general that you do not like.

You know if one of the poor guys goes and buys a can of corn at the grocery store for $1, he pays in the neighborhood of $.80 for the corn and $.20 cents in embedded federal taxes incurred from the farm to the grocery store. My knee jerk reaction is why don’t we get this all out in the open with the “Fair Tax” Everybody sees their taxes on every receipt.

Then I realize “Big Government” doesn’t want it that way. This is the same government that doesn’t collect its taxes from the majority of its payers. It forces employers to collect it for them in small amounts deducted from paychecks. They want the process hidden and deceptive.

Further more “Big Government” takes more than it needs and returns the excess as the beloved April “Refund”. They are ready to take credit for that with the big green check with US Treasury stamped boldly accross the top. They pay not one penney of intrest on this money they are forcing people to loan them.

The sad thing is most of the tax payers see the 1040EZ as the ticket to the refund not the proof of the scam the government has put on them the previous year. If everyone had to write the federal government a check every quarter, like I do, there would be rioting in the street. “Big Government” has to have the deception.

One of the most common reactions to the “Fair Tax” is that it is good idea but politically undigestable. I say lets elect the politicians that can digest it and give it a try. It certainly can’t be any worse than the system we have.