Archive for April 2008
A message from Senator Robert Clegg
April 30, 2008 · Category: Political Support
New Hampshire State Senator Robert Clegg is currently running for congress in New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district. A Republican, Senator Clegg served four terms in the New Hampshire House of Representatives prior to his ...
Posted by Mark Bostleman · 14 Comments »
Tax on Skittles
April 20, 2008 · Category: Political Support
One of the perspectives that is often lost in the analysis of tax bases, rates, economic growth and the details of this study or that study is the cultural effect that taxation has on a ...
Posted by Mark Bostleman · 8 Comments »
FairTax Lite
April 18, 2008 · Category: Activism, Criticisms
Regular poster Hank Van Gieson proposes the following:
Fairtax-Lite is a broad based 14% national sales tax with
(1) no exclusions,
(2) A targeted prebate,
(3) no taxation of government entities,
(4) leaves payroll taxes and gift/estate ...
Posted by Mark Bostleman · 42 Comments »
Huckabee Starts a PAC, Supports FairTax
As a supporter of Mike Huckabee in his bid for the Republican nomination for President, I received an email today that was encouraging. It was an announcement of the formation of the Huck PAC:
Don’t ...
Posted by Patrick Altman · 1 Comment »
The Loophole Factory
April 15, 2008 · Category: News
From today's WSJ Review & Outlook.
"People say all the time: 'We can't pick winners and losers.' Well then fine. Take every single dollar of subsidy out of the federal tax code. Get rid of it ...
Posted by Mark Bostleman · 54 Comments »
FairTax Evasion
April 14, 2008 · Category: Criticisms
In today's Wisconsin State Journal, Al Ose references this three year study by the National Research Program on the tax gap.
The study found that for the tax year 2001, the difference between tax liabilities and ...
Posted by Mark Bostleman · 82 Comments »
FairTax Petition Exceeds 100k
FairTax.org has been assembling a petition signed by FairTax supporters. The petition will be presented to Congress on tax day, this Tuesday, April 15th. A copy will also be given to leading presidential ...
Posted by Mark Bostleman · No Comments »
Is the prebate too complex?
April 10, 2008 · Category: Criticisms
I think one of the attractive things about the FairTax is its simplicity. Not only does a single rate on a single base provide transparency, it also reduces compliance cost. I also think ...
Posted by Mark Bostleman · 35 Comments »
Understanding the BHI FairTax rate
April 10, 2008 · Category: Activism
After some discussion in multiple threads, I've collected some questions regarding the BHI FairTax rate study to pose to BHI, Kotlikoff, and Walby (AFFT). Here are the questions thus far, which I'd like to keep short. I'm ...
Posted by Morphh · 13 Comments »
You Decide
April 8, 2008 · Category: Media Citings
KQED in San Francisco, is producing a series of "devil's advocate activities" called You Decide. Each activity is a question that you respond to with a yes or no answer. Depending on how ...
Posted by Mark Bostleman · 14 Comments »
Advance science while promoting the FairTax
April 7, 2008 · Category: Events
The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a computer system that allows scientists to submit work that has large computational requirements. On the other end, individual desktop computer users can download a ...
Posted by Mark Bostleman · No Comments »
Effects on corporate finance
April 6, 2008 · Category: Education
Poster Cesinco poses this question:
Oddly enough, you may find that one of the biggest obstacles [the FairTax will have] to overcome is from the corporations themselves, who would no longer have any corporate taxes to ...
Posted by Mark Bostleman · 13 Comments »
Why income is irrelevant in a consumption based tax
April 5, 2008 · Category: Education
Often, the taxes paid in a consumption model like the FairTax are indexed against income in an attempt to convert it back to an income model. With this conversion in place, it is then ...
Posted by Mark Bostleman · 84 Comments »
Redefining Regressive?
April 5, 2008 · Category: Education
At the end of this post, the discussion turned to the definition of "regressive" in the context of taxation. I thought this discussion should be promoted to its own topic because, even though it ...
Posted by Mark Bostleman · 48 Comments »
Stepping Out for a While
April 1, 2008 · Category: Site Announcements
Looks like the discussion has been moving at a nice pace lately.
My web development work with Zoom Strategies is keeping me more than busy lately, so I need to disappear for a while, here.
Jeff/Morphh and ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 5 Comments »
