Archive for May 2007

Income Taxes vs. Consumption Taxes

May 23, 2007  ·  Category: Criticisms
In the discussion for the post "Would the Underground Economy Be a Problem?," FairTax critic Hayden Kepner concluded his comments with: So, at least for the forseeable future, we will be forced to rely primarily on ...
Posted by Joshua Zader  ·  93 Comments »

The Fair Tax Act, Part LVIII

May 10, 2007  ·  Category: Education
Today I'll cover the first chunk of section 904, which details how to handle Social Security and Medicare revenue with the FairTax: (a) Secretary To Make Allocation of Sales Tax ...
Posted by James Kidd  ·  No Comments »

Record Sixty Co-Sponsors for FairTax Bill (H.R. 25)

May 8, 2007  ·  Category: News, Political Support
From Congressman John Linder: I want to take a moment and share with you some very exciting news about the FairTax. I just received word that Representatives Darrell Issa (CA-49) and John Boozman (AR-03) have ...
Posted by Joshua Zader  ·  10 Comments »

Would the Underground Economy Be a Problem?

May 6, 2007  ·  Category: Criticisms, Education, Mailbag
I'm promoting Jessica's question into a post and thread here of its own: I don't think we've really discussed the "underground economy" that Mr. Gale says would thrive. As far as I understand it, as used ...
Posted by Joshua Zader  ·  43 Comments »