Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., perpetuates the fraudulent and deceptive Fair Tax con

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Rep. Buddy Carter finally admits “The FairTax is the only progressive tax reform bill currently pending before Congress.”

See:

Of course, the alleged FairTax is progressive. As listed HERE, it would, if adopted, enlarge and strengthen the federal government’s ability to increase tax revenue, impose more oppressive regulations upon the American people, and it would even create a massive voting block dependent upon the federal government for their monthly necessities of life via its new devilish entitlement called “The Family Consumption Allowance”.

One does not have to be a rocket scientist to figure out the FairTax, if adopted, would grow government to levels never before dreamed of. Of course, “The FairTax is the only progressive tax reform bill currently pending before Congress.”

Real tax reform, which would actually benefit the American people and businesses, is found in the Fair Share Balanced Budget Amendment, and it would accomplish what the alleged FairTax falsely advertises.

JWK

There is no “humanitarian crisis” at our southern border as erroneously reported on Fox News. It is an outright invasion of the United States, intentionally orchestrated and perpetuated by the leadership of our tyrannical federal government which includes traitorous, judges, legislators, and our current president of the United States.

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And here is the latest fluff article on the alleged “FairTax” :roll_eyes:

Of course, the article avoids listing how, if adotped, it consolidates more authoritarian taxing power in the hands of our federal government, e.g it.:

creates two new tax collecting agencies, an “Excise Tax Bureau” and the “Sales Tax Bureau", in addition to keeping the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms alive, which will also be collecting taxes.

Imposes the new 23% “FairTax” on American citizens and businesses while Congress’ power to lay and collect taxes on “incomes” remains fully intact;

requires taxpayers to file Fair Tax returns twelve times a year;

requires ordinary working people to register with government in order to exercise a fundamental right of mankind . . . selling the property each has in their own labor;

requires ordinary people to become tax collectors for government;

requires taxpayers to keep whatever records Congress may dream up;

allows Congress to lay and collect countless “excise taxes” which members of Congress may dream up, and could be calculated from profits, gains and other incomes;

creates a new entitlement, the “Family Consumption Allowance” [a monthly government check sent to every “qualified family” in the U.S.] that would become another political partisan wedge-issue used during election time to buy votes in addition to making an enormously large segment of those who vote extremely dependent upon government to access their monthly necessities of life.

Why is our popular media so negligent in not reporting how the “FairTax Act” is really designed, to strengthen the federal government’s iron fisted taxing powers?

JWK

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Democrats continue to make crap up about the FairTax Act

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It seems to me the only Republicans who support the FairTax Act are those who have not studied the proposed legislation; those who embrace enlarging Congress’ taxing capabilities, or total nitwits.

JWK

There is no “humanitarian crisis” at our southern border as erroneously reported on Fox News. It is an outright invasion of the United States, intentionally orchestrated and perpetuated by the leadership of our tyrannical federal government which includes traitorous, judges, legislators, and our current president of the United States.

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Democrat leadership lies about Republican support for the FairTax Act

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The bottom line is, as confirmed by the above article, the FairTax Act is a very, very bad idea and would enlarge our federal Governments taxing capabilities and it certainly does not have “Widespread GOP Support”.

In fact, there is only a handful of Republicans who support the alleged FairTax.

The only reasonable explanation I can think of as to why Rep. Buddy Carter has latched onto the so-called FairTax is, that he has not studied the text of the Bill himself and is relying on one or more of his lazy staff members representations of H.R. 25 which they may have gotten from the propaganda and misrepresentations found at the fairtax web site, or in the fair tax book authored by Neal Boortz and Congressman John Linder, both of whom have done a disservice to working on real tax reform.

JWK

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The FairTax Act: “Putting Lipstick on a Pig, Badly”

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See: “Fair” tax: Terrible idea that just won’t die

Jan 28, 2023

“It was a bad idea when Neal Boortz and John Linder published The Fairtax Book (which should have been subtitled “Putting Lipstick on a Pig, Badly”) in 2005.”

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Well, here are some of the specific Sections and links to these Sections. Seems to me you are absolutely correct. So why would any “conservative” Republican support the fraudulent and deceptive FairTax Act?

If the FairTax ACT were passed into law the following explains some of its specific provisions.

It would create two new tax collecting agencies, an “Excise Tax Bureau” and the “Sales Tax Bureau", in addition to keeping the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms alive, which will also be collecting taxes.

See: SEC. 302. ADMINISTRATION OF OTHER FEDERAL TAXES.

(a) In General.—Section 7801 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to the authority of the Department of the Treasury) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(d) Excise Tax Bureau.—There shall be in the Department of the Treasury an Excise Tax Bureau to administer those excise taxes not administered by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
“(e) Sales Tax Bureau.—There shall be in the Department of the Treasury a Sales Tax Bureau to administer the national sales tax in those States where it is required pursuant to section 404, and to discharge other Federal duties and powers relating to the national sales tax (including those required by sections 402, 403, and 405). The Office of Revenue Allocation shall be within the Sales Tax Bureau.”.

It imposes a new 23% “FairTax” on “the use or consumption in the United States of taxable property or services” while Congress’ power to continue to lay and collect taxes on “incomes” remains fully intact;

See: “SEC. 101. IMPOSITION OF SALES TAX.

“(a) In General.—There is hereby imposed a tax on the use or consumption in the United States of taxable property or services.”

The FairTax Act does not withdraw Congress’ power to lay and collect taxes calculated from profits, gains, wages, tips and other lawfully realized incomes. It merely promises a repeal of the 16th Amendment within seven years, and this is after the new 23% tax has been put into operation.

See SEC. 401. ELIMINATION OF SALES TAX IF SIXTEENTH AMENDMENT NOT REPEALED.

“If the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is not repealed before the end of the 7-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, then all provisions of, and amendments made by, this Act shall not apply to any use or consumption in any year beginning after December 31 of the calendar year in which or with which such period ends, except that the Sales Tax Bureau of the Department of the Treasury shall not be terminated until 6 months after such December 31.”

The FairTax Act also increases the number of federal tax returns required to be filed from one to twelve Federal tax returns a year;

See: “SEC. 501. MONTHLY REPORTS AND PAYMENTS.”

“(a) Tax Reports And Filing Dates.—
“(1) IN GENERAL.—On or before the 15th day of each month, each person who is—
“(A) liable to collect and remit the tax imposed by this subtitle by reason of section 103(a), or
“(B) liable to pay tax imposed by this subtitle which is not collected pursuant to section 103(a),
shall submit to the appropriate sales tax administering authority (in a form prescribed by the Secretary) a report relating to the previous calendar month.

The FairTax Act also requires ordinary working people to register with government in order to exercise a fundamental right of mankind . . . selling the property each has in their own labor.

See “SEC. 502. REGISTRATION.”

“(a) In General.—Any person liable to collect and remit taxes pursuant to section 103(a) who is engaged in a trade or business shall register as a seller with the sales tax administering authority administering the taxes imposed by this subtitle.

The FT also requires ordinary people to become tax collectors for government;

See “SEC. 103. RULES RELATING TO COLLECTION AND REMITTANCE OF TAX.”

“(a) Liability For Collection And Remittance Of The Tax.—Except as provided otherwise by this section, any tax imposed by this subtitle shall be collected and remitted by the seller of taxable property or services (including financial intermediation services).

the FairTax also requires taxpayers to keep whatever records Congress may dream up in the future;

See “SEC. 501. MONTHLY REPORTS AND PAYMENTS.”

“(a) Tax Reports And Filing Dates.—
“(1) IN GENERAL.—On or before the 15th day of each month, each person who is—
“(A) liable to collect and remit the tax imposed by this subtitle by reason of section 103(a), or
“(B) liable to pay tax imposed by this subtitle which is not collected pursuant to section 103(a),
shall submit to the appropriate sales tax administering authority (in a form prescribed by the Secretary) a report relating to the previous calendar month.

The alleged FairTax also sneakily allows Congress to lay and collect countless “excise taxes” in addition to the new 23% FairTax, which members of Congress may dream up, and can be calculated from profits, gains and other incomes.

See SEC. 302. ADMINISTRATION OF OTHER FEDERAL TAXES”

(a) In General.—Section 7801 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to the authority of the Department of the Treasury) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(d) Excise Tax Bureau.—There shall be in the Department of the Treasury an Excise Tax Bureau to administer those excise taxes not administered by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

And, the FairTax Act creates a new entitlement, the “Family Consumption Allowance” [a monthly government check sent to every “qualified family” in the U.S.] that would become another political partisan wedge-issue, just like Social Security, used during election time to buy votes in addition to making an enormously large segment of those who vote extremely dependent upon government to access their monthly necessities of life.

See “SEC. 301. FAMILY CONSUMPTION ALLOWANCE”.

“Each qualified family shall be eligible to receive a sales tax rebate each month. The sales tax rebate shall be in an amount equal to the product of—

“(1) the rate of tax imposed by section 101, and

“(2) the monthly poverty level.”

Why on earth would any politician or freedom loving American citizen, after studying the proposed legislation, support this dastardly evil tax reform which would enlarge and strengthen the federal government’s iron fisted taxing grip around the American peoples’ necks?

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Once again Biden is trying to distract the people from discussing his traitorous policies by promising to veto the FairTax Act which is supported by a handful of nitwitted Republicans and will never get to his desk for his signature.

See:

Joe Biden Threatens Huge GOP Tax Plan: “I’m Going To Veto The Sucker”

2/4/2023

“Joe Biden told a Philadelphia gathering this week that they shouldn’t worry about a 30% national sales tax that would affect diapers, shoes and other items Americans purchase every day. Biden was addressing the Republican proposal advertised as the “fair tax” that “would replace the income tax system and do away with the IRS,” according to Forbes”.

Almost everything this Administration is doing is an outright attack on the general welfare of the United States and her citizens, e.g.:

  • Flooding the United States with millions upon millions of poverty-stricken, poorly educated, low skilled, diseased, disabled, and criminal foreign nationals;

  • Allowing deadly drugs to pour across our border which is killing our nation’s youth;

  • Hollowing out our military’s seasoned and well-trained officers, troops, seamen and pilots by discharging them for not being injected with an ineffective and experimental “vaccine”;

  • Depleting our militaries’ weapons of defense by transferring them into the hands of foreign nationals;

  • Emptying out our strategic oil reserve which is specifically intended for use in a national emergency such as war;

  • Shutting down our nation’s ability to produce cheap fuel needed for our nation’s manufacturing competitiveness;

  • Imposing unrealistic regulations upon our nation’s businesses and industries which in turn is destroying our manufacturing capabilities and global competitiveness;

  • Flooding our country with a worthless paper currency causing consumer goods to double and even triple in price;

  • Working to transfer our nation’s technology to hostile foreign countries . . . etc., and etc, …

Surely there is no wondering why Biden prefers to talk about, and promises to veto the alleged FairTax Act, which will never get to his desk. He is trying to drown out any talk about his traitorous policies which amount to an outright attack on the general welfare of the United States and her citizens.

JWK

There is no surer way to weaken, subdue and bring to its knees a prosperous and freedom loving country than by flooding it with deadly drugs, an inflated currency and the poverty stricken, poorly educated, low skilled, diseased, disabled, and criminal populations of other countries.

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I think I figured out why some Republicans in Congress want to adopt the FairTax Act and introduce an additional way to raise federal revenue. They want to fund Biden’s travel agency for foreign nationals. See:

April 12, 2022

"Biden is rolling out the welcome mat.

Illegal border-crossers will no longer be treated like criminals. More like customers. The president’s fiscal budget, presented March 28, cuts funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement by 8%, despite an expected surge in migrants, and reduces detention beds. Meanwhile, he’s increasing funding a whopping 700% for “noncitizen processing and care,” speedier service and more flights and ground transportation.

Kind of like a travel agency."

How much of our federal tax dollars are now being spent by this Administration to assist and encourage the invasion at our southern border by millions upon millions of the worlds the poverty stricken, poorly educated, low skilled, diseased, disabled, and criminals foreign nationals? Are American citizens not already being made into tax slaves and second-class citizens by the Biden Administration?

And now, we find Republican members in Congress want to give our federal government an additional source to raise revenue . . . the FairTax Act which would create a 23 % tax on consumption and taxable property owned by American Citizens.

The Republicans in Congress who support this crap ought to be kicked out of the Republican Party.

JWK

What will it take for American Citizens to accept the fact that their homeland is under attack orchestrated by the Biden Administration?

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I am still waiting for a Republican House member who supports the FairTax Act to explain why they embrace creating a new Federal entitlement . . . the Family Consumption Allowance which, like Social Security, is a very bad and dangerous idea, especially since it would make another huge voting block dependent on government to receive a monthly and rationed supply of tax-free necessities of life.

As Hamilton pointed out: A POWER OVER A MAN’s SUBSISTENCE AMOUNTS TO A POWER OVER HIS WILL ____ Hamilton, No. 79 Federalist Papers

Why is it that not one of the FairTax Act’s co-sponsors is willing to explain why they are so eager to create a new “third-rail” entitlement which we have already learned is destructive to our nation’s general welfare ?

Why would any freedom loving Republican in Congress support this patently evil tax reform which would tighten the iron fist of government around the American people’s necks?

JWK

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What would be the total federal cost to finance the fairtax entitlement called the “Family consumption Allowance?

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With all the brilliant posters in this forum, I was wondering if one could provide an estimated figure, or a link, showing the total annual dollar amount our federal government would have to dole out to finance the FairTax “Family Consumption Allowance” to every qualified family in the United States.

JWK

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I just checked to see if there has been any activity in the House on the FairTax Act. It has been sent to the House Committee on Ways and Means and seems that no further action has taken place since January 9th, 2023.

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You have my condolences.

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Why offer me your condolences?

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I’m still wondering why Fox News, the home of “conservative” politics, has be so negligent to not criticize the proposed Fair Tax Family Consumption allowance entitlement.

When Social Security [today’s largest federal entitlement] was started, it was meant to help and encourage American workers to save for their retirement years so they would not be left totally destitute and without any resources to purchase the bare necessities of life.

In 1945 about ten years after Social Security was enacted, it was only .29 % of the federal budget. Today, Social Security accounts for more than a quarter of all federal spending. The most obvious problem with allowing our federal government to create social welfare “entitlements” is, once created, history have proven they are used during federal election time by nefariously evil politicians to buy votes with the promise to increase the entitlement, and so, they grow exponentially like a virus, as Social Security has, and to the point of consuming desperately needed federal revenue to finance those specified functions found beneath Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, for which Congress was granted the power to lay and collect taxes.

The proposed Family Consumption Allowance entitlement would dwarf the devastating political effects which Social Security has introduced into our federal elections, and it would further divide the American people in a never ending battle between the rich and poor, while immoral and self-righteous politicians instigate such divisions rather than warn the American people to avoid entering upon this suicidal path.

So, why has Fox News, the home of “conservative” politics, not called out the twenty-five Republican Co-Sponsors who are pushing this new entitlement and ask them to explain why they embrace creating it, especially since it would make another huge voting block entirely dependent upon government for a monthly and rationed supply of tax-free necessities of life?

JWK

We are here today and gone tomorrow, but what is most important is what we do in-between and is what our children will inherit and remember us by.

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:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: mic drop

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And just why is that a “mic drop” moment? Is there really something funny and insightful about our popular media ignoring, for over 25 years, the sinister and destructive proposal called the Fair Tax?

Had our media done its job when the 16th Amendment was being proposed and educated the people to the evil nature of taxing “incomes”, and how such a tax would open the door for nefariously evil folks in government to exercise an unbridled power over the people’s lives, liberty and property, we never would be in the dreadful situation we are in today and our federal government may still be our servant and not our master.

So tell me, why is there a rolling on the floor laughing and a “mic drop” moment, after someone offers me their “condolences” because I reported that no further action has taken place since January 9th, 2023 when the sinister FairTax Act was sent to the House Committee on Ways and Means?

Shouldn’t the condolences be sarcastically offered to the 25 Republican Co-Sponsors promoting this evil expansion of Congress’ taxing capabilities which also contains a new massive and slavish federal government entitlement?

JWK

If, by calling a tax indirect when it is essentially direct, the rule of protection [apportionment] could be frittered away, one of the great landmarks defining the boundary between the nation and the states of which it is composed, would have disappeared, and with it one of the bulwarks of private rights and private property. POLLOCK v. FARMERS’ LOAN & TRUST CO., 157 U.S. 429 (1895) JUSTICE FULLER

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Whoosh

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I have no idea what you mean by that.

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Well, this is interesting. As of February 10th, 2023, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO) has not scheduled any movement on the alleged FairTax Act of 2023.
CLICK HERE for Updates - House Committee on Ways and Means

My advice to Chairman Smith is to let it die rather than have its uniformed Co-Sponsors attempt to defend it publically. They made a mistake, but I hope this has been a lesson for the 25 Republican Co-Sponsors . . . always read proposed legislation and do not take the word of slithering snake scoundrels like Neal Boortz and Senator Lindsey Graham, who did everything imaginable to misrepresent what the alleged fair tax would do.

Let us never forget the lesson taught by Nancy Pelosi

JWK

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“51% of registered voters oppose a bill that would replace the current progressive income tax system in the United States with a national sales tax on goods and services, a dramatic change to the U.S. tax system proposed in House Republicans’ FairTax Act of 2023.”

I’ll bet that at least 90% of registered voters would oppose the FairTax Act if they actually knew what it proposes as documented HERE

JWK