The FairTax Book: Saying Goodbye to the Income Tax and the IRS
Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 10 years, 9 months ago to Books
The FairTax Book: Saying Goodbye to the Income Tax and the IRS
Authors, Neal Boortz & Congressman John Linder
196 pages. ISBN 978-0-06-087549-7
This short book detailing the FairTax was a #1 New York Times Bestseller.
I looked through my library in search of and intending to write a review of a book that offered some solutions to our present problems. I believe this book fits the bill. If we wish to reform our government and reclaim our liberty there can be no more effective way than to remove the easily abused funding method. I have heard many suggestions and objections regarding this option. This book explores and answers them all.
The many seemingly insurmountable financial problems facing us make this option very attractive. From addressing the “Social Security tax, the Medicare tax, corporate income taxes, the death tax, the self-employment tax, the alternative minimum tax, the gift tax, capital gains taxes, tax audits, and some major headaches every April 15” this is the most fair, possible and workable solution. It is not the be all, end all, to all of our problems but it is likely the most effective first step we could take.
What would be the best way to fund our federal government? My preference has little probability of occurring, but this option has some chance of passing and is thus, I believe, the best option considering our present political climate. The proposal is fair; it treats all taxpayers equally and the benefits are manifold. The poor would not pay any more than they do now. The middle class and even the rich would benefit. The only losers are the grafters, special interests and lobbyists who care not that their efforts push the burdens of their successes on the backs of others.
Mr. Boortz and Congressman Linder have written a very important short read for anyone interested in learning about and promoting something that could really help. Mr. Boortz has retired from the radio and Congressman Linder retired from congress in 2011, but their book continues in the effort to promote the proposal.
Do you want to turbo charge our economy? Take back your liberty? Constrain the tyrants? Please read this book and investigate www.FairTax.org for detailed information about the proposal and how you can help. If you find it acceptable, then please urge your representatives in government to support the effort.
Respectfully,
O.A.
Authors, Neal Boortz & Congressman John Linder
196 pages. ISBN 978-0-06-087549-7
This short book detailing the FairTax was a #1 New York Times Bestseller.
I looked through my library in search of and intending to write a review of a book that offered some solutions to our present problems. I believe this book fits the bill. If we wish to reform our government and reclaim our liberty there can be no more effective way than to remove the easily abused funding method. I have heard many suggestions and objections regarding this option. This book explores and answers them all.
The many seemingly insurmountable financial problems facing us make this option very attractive. From addressing the “Social Security tax, the Medicare tax, corporate income taxes, the death tax, the self-employment tax, the alternative minimum tax, the gift tax, capital gains taxes, tax audits, and some major headaches every April 15” this is the most fair, possible and workable solution. It is not the be all, end all, to all of our problems but it is likely the most effective first step we could take.
What would be the best way to fund our federal government? My preference has little probability of occurring, but this option has some chance of passing and is thus, I believe, the best option considering our present political climate. The proposal is fair; it treats all taxpayers equally and the benefits are manifold. The poor would not pay any more than they do now. The middle class and even the rich would benefit. The only losers are the grafters, special interests and lobbyists who care not that their efforts push the burdens of their successes on the backs of others.
Mr. Boortz and Congressman Linder have written a very important short read for anyone interested in learning about and promoting something that could really help. Mr. Boortz has retired from the radio and Congressman Linder retired from congress in 2011, but their book continues in the effort to promote the proposal.
Do you want to turbo charge our economy? Take back your liberty? Constrain the tyrants? Please read this book and investigate www.FairTax.org for detailed information about the proposal and how you can help. If you find it acceptable, then please urge your representatives in government to support the effort.
Respectfully,
O.A.
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Not permitting anyone who is receiving government assistance to vote would probably work - and be feasible. Regardless of gender, one should not be able to "vote" money out of someone else's pocket into your own. The people who EARN the money should be able to vote where it goes. Those who contribute nothing should have no say.
End welfare in all its forms. The current social welfare system is nothing less than armed robbery by the state with proceeds going to those who vote for it. If someone wishes to be charitable on an individual basis, they should be free to employ their money as they wish. Going down to the local food bank and making a $100 contribution does more good than $500 in taxes. In the former case, almost all the money goes to help people. In the latter case, more than 90% goes to government waste, inefficiency, fraud and abuse. Government is NOT a good way to help people in most circumstances. Of course, charitable organizations have to scramble for dollars in part because tax rates are so high and people have less money they can contribute.
It's only a partial solution. This whole Supreme Court crap about "Corporations are people too" has to be reversed. Corporations should not be able to buy themselves influence to receive government contracts any more than welfare recipients should be able to vote themselves more welfare.
In short - do what you can to eliminate conflict of interest.
The irony is, only in western countries have MEN made it safe enough for WOMEN to speak out. And women are using that speech (and the corresponding vote) to tear down the very infrastructure that makes it safe for them to speak in the first place. When they succeed in being viewed as "weak men", stronger men will dominate them in ways they never dreamed possible.
Talk about chopping your own legs out from under yourself!!
The generation of women who might have had a chance at independent survival was my grandmother's generation. She knew survival skills.
Today's women are completely lost if the tire on their car goes flat or the battery in their iPhone dies.
Years back, when I was working at a gas station while in college, I recall a woman coming into the station - and I did a routine check under the hood. What oil that could be found was thick and black. I asked when was the last time she changed the oil. "What do you mean, 'change the oil'?"
I wonder how many women today would even know how to check the pressure in their tires - or even know that the pressurized air goes on the INSIDE? (Doesn't work as well when you spray the air on the outside.)
The main reason is that the people pulling the strings have already demonstrated that they don't care if the economy collapses. They just want to loot it while it's still functioning and get away clean just before it crashes. So, if you think of 3% as moving TEOTWAWKI 3% closer… it doesn't really matter. Suppose that the economic wheels would grind to a halt in 1 year. Would it matter if it ground to a halt 10 days sooner?
The other factor is that the Fed just keeps creating money out of thin air. Would they do it 3% faster?
Now if that 3% were taking potshots at the .01% that's screwing everything up...
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?a...
(Have not read it yet.)
Your paycheck was direct-deposited on Wednesday? Withdraw it on Wednesday. Contrary to popular belief, the IRS doesn't have a mechanism for "timing" your account.
khaling makes it a point to thumb down everything I write. Matters not whether I'm right or wrong. She's particularly sensitive to the fact that much of the economic turmoil facing America today is the result of female voting patterns… yet she offers no alternative explanation. That is, of course, part of the problem - the tendency among women to adopt unreasoning, emotional reaction to facts that are not to their liking.
And unlike most, she is folding human nature and motivations into the scenario.
Emotion has trumped reason in our society and when reality intrudes to "readjust" things it will be very ugly indeed.
Big thumbs up
In reality, the Federal Government, operating within its Constitutional limitations, would cost more like $300 to $500 billion. About 90% of everything the Feral Govenrment does is unconstitutional.
If we have to take their flotsam, they can take our detritus.
He may have "three per center" patches for sale. ;-)
Vanderboegh originally planned to publish - either in e-book form or via Amazon. Don't know why he never followed through. Some of the chapters have been changed - and some might even be hard to find on line. But it's worth the effort.
I'm more inclined to think that the problem is too much spending, not insufficient taxation.
So long as the government isn't holding up its end of the contract (is behaving unconstitutionally), I don't believe it's entitled to ANY tax money. So when the IRS targets certain groups, Oblowme launches into undeclared wars, the NSA spies on Americans - the answer is - stop paying taxes. Go Galt.
Indeed. See my exchange with AJAshinoff above. Ref. "This would be in keeping with apportionment as was originally intended."
Regards,
O.A.
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