On Jan 7, 7:51*am, "(David P.)" wrote:
On Jan 7, 9:42 am, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:





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"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:
"(David P.)" wrote:

It's pretty tough to get reelected if you don't
bring home the bacon! * The Income Tax has
only been around since 1913. *If we turn back
the clock to 1912, it'll be a whole new ball game.
Are any candidates besides Ron Paul calling for
the removal of the Income Tax?

I haven't followed his plan. How does he suggest
we pay for things like highways?

Gotta cut bloated bureaucracies!

That's not much of an answer.

This just in: Paul and Huckabee both like the
Flat Consumption Tax.
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It's been suggested for a long time. Hard to sell:



http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?...29239937418232


They all campaign on "Taxing the rich". You could take everything
from Gates, Buffet and several others and it would not pay for one day
of the congressional retirment plan.

Every plan they propose taxes the working man making US products more
expensive and imports cheaper. Result is that more and more
businesses fail or go outside the country. Soon the American car
manufactures will do like the Japanese. Have all the parts made
outside the country, bring them in by shipping containers and let a
robot put them together while watched by a union worker. Then
advertise "Made in America with Union labor" and the public will
believe it.

Their next goal is to get that NAFTA superhighway built so they don't
have to pay the "outrageous salaries" (including all the income and
social security taxes they pay) of American dock workers or truck
drivers.

Other countries have consumption tax (VAT). They do not apply it on
their exports to the US but full tax on US products sold there.

I dislike consumption tax but it is the only way to compete with other
countries and it is probably the easiest to control cheating.