tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4989601160281651471.post3975875880240167395..comments2024-03-25T17:02:17.355-04:00Comments on The Baby Boomer Blogger: My Episodes - BlogTalkRadioSouthern Sensehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01565601369297332584noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4989601160281651471.post-62860920196899263172011-02-12T16:46:21.580-05:002011-02-12T16:46:21.580-05:00I don't know about your other positions, some...I don't know about your other positions, some of them are rational and good. <br /><br />Your blog said start the debate about Fairtax. Great idea! <br /><br />I was a big supporter of Fairtax long ago. Before Boortz got in, before Linder, before Jim Bennett or Karen Walby. I was one of the early Fairtax supporters.<br /><br />But then I saw behind the curtain. Oh sure, it sounded GREAT -- that's why I liked it.<br /><br />But when I started to examine their "research" -- I found no research at all. I found they hired some spokesmen, and a public relations company, but no research.<br /><br />And I noticed, they claimed 100 supporters in COngress at one point, they claimed 600,000 "volunteers" and predicted six millions. All these great sounding claims.<br /><br />Why no hearings under oath? WHy no idexes in their book? Why all this fine print? <br /><br />What was going on?<br /><br />Of course no claims sounded better than the Fairtax itself!! WOW it was great! All prices come down -- so whatever the tax was, won't matter! Great!<br /><br />No tax forms! Great! No corporate taxes -- because corporations just pass the cost along! Great! <br /><br />Transparency !! Simple-- what's not to love!<br /><br />I'm here to tell you what's not to love. I was a Fairtax supporter who bought all this BS, and it took me a while to figure out how much BS iat was.<br /><br />Oh sure, every tax plan sounds great, and has things in the fine print that are different. Fine. But Fairtax went way, way way WAY beyond that in their fine print.<br /><br />All this about "only people pay taxes - remember"? That was their #1 principle, said Fairtax. org. Corporate taxes was a "CRUEL HOAX" because people ended up paying that anyway. Fairtax would not do that.<br /><br />A tax on PERSONAL consumption -- right?<br /><br />No. All that is wrong. IN the fine print, there is a TRILLION DOLLAR tax on city and state government.<br /><br />Yes, a TRILLION dollars. Worse, they don't mention this tax. Not once - in 10 years. Not in any speech. They don't mention it in any video. Not once. They don't mention it in any book -- except for one sentence, 10 years in. Then, they give ONE SENTENCE to it.<br /><br />I noticed that one sentence, and contacted Fairtax spokesman about it. When they give me double talk and distortions, I knew Fairtax was bs.<br /><br />A TRILLION dollar tax, that they don't mention? That when they finally say a word about it, its in the back of one book, in one sentence?<br /><br />Can you say BS -- can you say CON job?<br /><br />http://fairtaxbs.blogspot.com/Seekerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10206503506011763393noreply@blogger.com