Recipe For Succcess: Want To Be The Front Runner?

[goldenponderbob]

Feel free to forward this revelation to the candidate of you choice.

"Be the first to focus your campaign on the one issue that can
catapult you into office"

Here's an issue that can't be beat!

Throw out the income tax, lock, stock and barrel.

Replace it with a federal sales tax.

Make it ten percent across the board. No exceptions:: whether it's new, old, for sale, resale, service or product; and double for imported.

Ten isn't enough, simply raise it as needed to whatever balances the budget.

Want to protest Iraq, or anything else the government does? Stop spending!

Force your opponents to defend the current tax system via public debate!

Now that'd be a presidential election campaign worth having.

[motivez]

I don't like the idea of a federal sales tax across the board with no exceptions.

It'd screw over low income and lower middle class families, as well as put massive strain on middle class and upper middle class.

[Donkey®]

Originally Posted by goldenponderbob

Feel free to forward this revelation to the candidate of you choice.

"Be the first to focus your campaign on the one issue that can
catapult you into office"

Here's an issue that can't be beat!

Throw out the income tax, lock, stock and barrel.

Replace it with a federal sales tax.

Make it ten percent across the board. No exceptions:: whether it's new, old, for sale, resale, service or product; and double for imported.

Ten isn't enough, simply raise it as needed to whatever balances the budget.

Want to protest Iraq, or anything else the government does? Stop spending!

Force your opponents to defend the current tax system via public debate!

Now that'd be a presidential election campaign worth having.

Yikes. Give that advice to all of the right wing candidates.

[Diesel66]

Originally Posted by motivez

I don't like the idea of a federal sales tax across the board with no exceptions.

It'd screw over low income and lower middle class families, as well as put massive strain on middle class and upper middle class.

Especially during slow years. Nothing like having no job and still owe about the same amount of tax because you need to buy food and other neccessities.

[kinggovernor]

20% tax on all imports, no thanks

[kinggovernor]

Originally Posted by Donkey®

Yikes. Give that advice to all of the right wing candidates.

f that, you take it

[AVengeance]

Originally Posted by motivez

I don't like the idea of a federal sales tax across the board with no exceptions.

It'd screw over low income and lower middle class families, as well as put massive strain on middle class and upper middle class.

Poor people buy less stuff.

Poor people buy stuff with other people's money (like groceries from food stamps).

How are poor people hurt by this?

[AVengeance]

Originally Posted by Diesel66

Especially during slow years. Nothing like having no job and still owe about the same amount of tax because you need to buy food and other neccessities.

You recognize the possibility that people work more or less, resulting in a change to their tax payment, right?

Well, if I don't have a job (or I have a lesser job) would it not make sense to not buy so much stuff? If i'm buying less stuff, I'm paying less in tax. Also, if I don't have a job, I can work around the house, cutting wood, growing a garden, etc. You wouldn't be taxed on those things.

[goldenponderbob]

When I finally got my tongue unstuck from my cheek, and took a look at
the distruction my dalliance caused, I was surprised by two things.

Not one word about government intrusion, or the silly industry that has
produced a culture of "tax gurus" puttering around in the personal aspects
of what used to be nobody's business but your own.

Oh, and I certainly expected to read something about
"It ain't got a proverbial snowball's chance . . . .

Which, of course, is unarguable, but still noteworthy
about what it says about our regard for privacy.

Anyway, if they had to continue the income tax for
industry, I'd go along - only private citizens deserve
an expectation of privacy (my opinion) if they want
it!

goldenponderbob