Viewpoints: Letters / Opinions
RE: IRS Debacle
By Stephen C, Eldridge
February 07, 2015
Saturday AM
This letter is just one more example of FairTax® deception. The FairTax® does not cure excessive, foolish, un-Constitutional federal spending - that is a distinctly different problem from the tax system.
The FairTax® bring us its own “IRS” (i.e., the STAA), which may conduct more invasive audits of consumers, demanding to see all receipts. It would surely lead to a new Income Tax, bringing back the old IRS.
Congress would certainly repeal the laughable “Sunset Clause” and would “have to do something” to respond to the “emergency” of a sharp drop in tax revenues because the FairTax® “assumes” that non-one will cheat or save (really?). See also, Cato Institute’s similar warning at https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/a-primer-on-the-flat-tax-and-fundamental-tax-reform/
While FairTax® propaganda appears to make sense on a very superficial level, it dissipates when you understand what is beneath the surface.
Stephen C, Eldridge
Cosby, TN
Web: http://sceldridge.wix.com/sceldridge
Received February 04, 2015
- Published February 07, 2015
Related Viewpoint:
 IRS debacle By Joe O'Hara
Viewpoints - Opinion Letters:
Webmail
Your Opinion Letter to the Editor
Representations of fact and opinions in letters are solely those of the author.
The opinions of the author do not represent the opinions of Sitnews.
E-mail your letters
& opinions to editor@sitnews.us
Your full name, city and state are required for letter publication.
Published letters become the property of SitNews.
SitNews ©2014
Stories In The News
Ketchikan, Alaska
|
Articles &
photographs that appear in SitNews may be protected by copyright
and may not be reprinted without written permission from and
payment of any required fees to the proper sources.
E-mail your news &
photos to editor@sitnews.us
Photographers choosing to submit photographs for publication to SitNews are in doing so granting their permission for publication and for archiving. SitNews does not sell photographs. All requests for purchasing a photograph will be emailed to the photographer.
|
|