Fair Tax

[Leadfoot_mf]

i am but jamie is right on this. bottom line it takes power away from the government and gives it back to the people.

[Jaimecbr900]

David, you're totally going in the wrong direction. There are quite a few "costs" that you are not taking into consideration at all.

An employer's COST is not merely withholding an employees income taxes to send to the IRS. An employer has to pay FICA taxes which come out of THEIR BOTTOMLINE, i.e. a BIG EXPENSE. An employer pays 6.2% just as a match to their Social Security and Medicare. An employer also has to PAY out of THEIR pockets Unemployment as well. That's ANOTHER 6% or so if memory serves me correct. So there alone you have EMPLOYERS PAYING 12+% out of EACH AND EVERY PAYCHECK for EACH AND EVERY W2 EMPLOYEE YOU HAVE. Now factor that 12% over the number of employees of a large manufacturer, hell even a small mom and pop place, and you can easily see that number can easily get into the thousands. I know for a fact from first hand experience that I damn sure would rather NOT have to pay ANY of those useless taxes everytime I stroke an employee a check. It's just as much a cost as Georgia Power and the Mortgage. Now imagine if you tell a company the size of Dell or Cisco Systems or Apple that they no longer have to contribute that 12% anymore..... You still think that "taxes" is not a corporate incentive??? It damn sure is.