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    Do you support a national sales tax?

    With budget deficits soaring and President Obama pushing a trillion-dollar-plus expansion of health coverage, some Washington policymakers, as reported in todays Washington Post, are taking a fresh look at a money-making idea long considered politically taboo: Do you support a national sales tax?



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    It sure helped the Canadian economy when the GST was implemented. It was 7%. Recently the government cut it back to 5% and it really has hurt its ability to balance the budget (silly Conservative Party of Canada and its inability to be fiscally responsible).

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    I would favor a set national sales tax, as long as we could do away with paying income taxes. I think the government would make more money with a sales tax than they have been with the income tax. Illegals and minors don't pay income tax, yet they still buy goods. Tax em I say! LOL :bbg:

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    Yeah, what she said! :)

    http://www.fairtax.org


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    Quote Originally Posted by rbaker View Post
    With budget deficits soaring and President Obama pushing a trillion-dollar-plus expansion of health coverage, some Washington policymakers, as reported in todays Washington Post, are taking a fresh look at a money-making idea long considered politically taboo: Do you support a national sales tax?


    The proposal is for a sales tax IN ADDITION to the existing income tax and state sales tax. A sales tax rate as high as 25% is being considered.

    Yikes!
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    Quote Originally Posted by rbaker View Post
    With budget deficits soaring and President Obama pushing a trillion-dollar-plus expansion of health coverage, some Washington policymakers, as reported in todays Washington Post, are taking a fresh look at a money-making idea long considered politically taboo: Do you support a national sales tax?
    We are faced with the possibility of not only a sales tax but a VAT tax as well. Is not the VAT tax the real reason that all of our Canadian relatives come to visit four times a year and return home with a trunk full of canned Polish hams?

    I guess that the statement "if you think medical care is expensive now, just wait until its free" is true

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...602909_pf.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by keithbenjamin View Post
    Yeah, what she said! :)

    http://www.fairtax.org


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    You can forget that idea for now.

    The government has spent so much money (which, by the way, is worth less and less each day) that all the kings horses and all the kings men will be taxed to death. Things are so bad that we are going to have to start forcing the forty percent of the population that pay no taxes to start ponying up. Now, thats fair.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rbaker View Post
    The proposal is for a sales tax IN ADDITION to the existing income tax and state sales tax. A sales tax rate as high as 25% is being considered.

    Yikes!
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    You sound surprised...
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    I keep saying this, you guys better realize that your taxes will have to go up. $10 trillion dollars just does not disappear.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rbaker View Post
    The proposal is for a sales tax IN ADDITION to the existing income tax and state sales tax. A sales tax rate as high as 25% is being considered.

    Yikes!
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    Everything I've seen points to that statement as being false. Maybe that's what's making the Repub email circulations, but reality is often different.
    http://www.youdebate.com/DEBATES/TAX_NATIONAL_SALES.HTM
    http://www.salestax.org/
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...al/tax/tax.htm
    http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServ...ame=about_main
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    What are you guys going to do with a national sales tax of 25% where everyone buys from other nations, online, or underground? At least with a small VAT (5%?) on top of the current income taxes, it is blended, so there is less encouragement to use those sources.

    Also, a VAT is a regressive sales tax that puts more pressure on low income than high income individuals. Basically, someone making $25k cannot afford to pay a 25% VAT (the number 25% is also spouted out, but it has been shown that 25% would not cover what the current income tax is paying, so it would probably have to be 30-35%)

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