Replies to post #61 on Americans for Fair Taxation

[decouverte d Elbe]

"Chances are a person making 30k a year has 8k-16k going towards housing or car payments, Which are not taxed and wouldn't be under the "FAIR" tax. That's $2.5 -5k more to invest then they have now." --nostocks

Where is that? What country are you talking about? You mean if they sleep in their car, and have no family? Or live in their parent's basement? But if they have 3-4 children, what about food, diapers, school supplies, cough syrup, and medical supplies? So families should be taxed more than single persons? Traditional low to middle income married couples, where the wife raises the children, would then have to pay the most taxes.

The richest people that pay 5% of their income on housing would be exempt then from paying income taxes on all their properties and real estate investments, as well as all capital gains taxes? Then they are free to spend the money they want overseas instead to avoid further taxes. This plan doesn't sound like the prescription to a healthy US economy. It would only lead to even lower wages, and a further decline in American middle class wages.
By the way, we don't stereotype or assume anyone as typical on this board. We can assume people have the ability to think for themselves. I know it's harder to communicate, if you prefer to sound like a dittohead, but please try to do your best. Thanks

[decouverte d Elbe]

What do you have against teachers? You don't consider them as worthy as Corporate CEOs perhaps, and you want to drive down their salaries further? Many teachers in underprivileged schools pay for some school supplies, and books out of their own pocket. So the bill that was passed also kept on the job thousands of first responders. How much of a pay cut should these folks that you consider unworthy take? Or should we just terminate the cops and fireman in your neighborhood? The bill recently passed, did not add to the deficit, indeed a large part of it was paid for by closing a major corporate incentive to ship American jobs overseas. So you would have preferred having less teachers, or pushing them closer to poverty, and half the police and fireman, and then putting them on food stamps? And continue shipping more jobs overseas! Wow, that's amazing! Last I heard, the middle class 401Ks were raided by Corporate bigwigs, and their disposable income has declined significantly, while the gap between executive salaries, and blue collar workers has increased by 70 X! But then again, Marie Antoinette put your idea perfectly into words, shortly before she was beheaded, "Let them eat cake!" Looks like the wealth was already distributed upward to the highest 10% from every major study and observation.

no stocks says....Pretty nice of your hero the zero to cut food stamps to pay for more teachers. Why cann't they take a paycut like the rest of the country? Share the wealth right? Oh that's right the libs get campaign donations from the unions. Tell me how do the working poor like paying 30% of their income on a vehicle to drive to work. What when the people making them are no more skilled then they are but make 3-5 times as much annually. Why don't the libs spread the wealth????????????