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Well of course you would, because he doesn't believe in your socialist welfare state system.
I'm not a socialist.
Well of course you would, because he doesn't believe in your socialist welfare state system.
I'm not a socialist.
Herman Cain wants to implement the fairtax. That is an indication to me that he is idealistic, but perhaps hasn't thought some things through. Would I vote for him over Obama? In a heartbeat. However, he is not my first choice in the primary.
Herman Cain wants to implement the fairtax. That is an indication to me that he is idealistic, but perhaps hasn't thought some things through. Would I vote for him over Obama? In a heartbeat. However, he is not my first choice in the primary.
Fair tax is better than any other tax system purposed thus far. It would be even be better if it was combined with a reverse income tax
The fair tax eliminates the income tax. No more IRS.
The fair tax eliminates the income tax. No more IRS.
Do you even know what the reverse income tax is? Also, the IRS would still exist with the fair tax. 1) The IRS would still be in charge of collections and ensuring no one is cheating, 2) the pre-bate would need to be devided out.
Cosidering there will be no taxes except what retailers collect, there won't be a whole lot for them to do.
Why would the pre-bate be divided out? Each family gets a check, per members in household. Monthly I think. You buy stuff. The stuff you buy has a 23% tax on it. As long as you live below the poverty level, you'll not be paying taxes out of your own pocket, but you are still paying taxes as you spend that money. Nothing to keep track of. Never have to file taxes again.
The IRS will not be in charge of collections. The retailers will simply send them in as they do to the state, only it will be to the federal government.
My, wouldn't that have been nice of the media to have done that with Obama on Cap Gains, Wright, Ayers, Alinsky, Talks with our enemies without preconditions, his asinine comments about healing the planet and the world changing after he was elected and on and on and on?Thank you. Some people found his answer about Afganistan as a poor answer.
They thought he was uninformed about it.
Talk about uninformed coupled with being wholly unrealistic, and dangerously narcissistic.
But such imbalance with journOlists is to be expected.
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Herman Cain wants to implement the fairtax. That is an indication to me that he is idealistic, but perhaps hasn't thought some things through. Would I vote for him over Obama? In a heartbeat. However, he is not my first choice in the primary.
They said similar things of Reagan and his comments about the Soviet Union. This is in our hands... the Soviet Union wasn't... yet his idealism proved correct,
The Soviet Union collapsed from within because of corruption, over spending on the military, and trying to control to much of the world directly.
Reagan had very little to do with it.
You picked a really really bad example. The Soviet Union collapsed from within because of corruption, over spending on the military, and trying to control to much of the world directly. Reagan had very little to do with it. Don't get me wrong, I believe he was a great president and he handled the slow collapses very well, but he didn't causes it.
BTW, Obama supports fixing the tax code.
The SU collapsed because it was totalitarian. The three things you list are suffered in every country, today, and don't qualify as key reasons for anything. Those are all symptoms, not causes.
Perhaps you are too young to know, but even if you were an adult back then I suggest you go back and read the news from that time. They called Reagan "nuts", "a cowboy", "dangerous"... and on and on. His "ash heap of history" speech before the British Parliament wasn't seen as realistic at the time. Quite the contrary.
Reagan brought Gorby and their Utopia to the brink by escalating an arms race they couldn't win and let Gorby walk over the edge of the cliff.
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No, those were causes for the break up of the USSR. Even if the USSR wasn't totalitarian, it still would of collapses because of those "symptoms" Just like Rome. If it was because of totalitarianism, Russia wouldn't hold the place in the world that it currently does.
I didn't live it, but I know exactly what you are talking about. I wasn't talking about how people portrayed him. I was talking about facts. He did not cause the collpase of the USSR. Like I said, he handled the USSR very well .... South America, not so much.
His idealism, though not accepted by many, even in his own Cabinet... proved correct. Taxation is in our control, we only need elect people like Herman Cain who possess the will to educate the pubic and invest political capital carrying this through.Perhaps you are too young to know, but even if you were an adult back then I suggest you go back and read the news from that time. They called Reagan "nuts", "a cowboy", "dangerous"... and on and on. They did not see his take on the USSR as realistic, but dangerous. He proved them all wrong regardless of what take you take on its demise. Reagan foresaw its collapse when nobody else did.
His "ash heap of history" speech before the British Parliament wasn't seen as realistic at the time. Quite the contrary.
Reagan brought Gorby and their Utopia to the brink by escalating an arms race they couldn't win and let Gorby walk over the edge of the cliff.
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You picked a really really bad example. The Soviet Union collapsed from within because of corruption, over spending on the military, and trying to control to much of the world directly. Reagan had very little to do with it. Don't get me wrong, I believe he was a great president and he handled the slow collapses very well, but he didn't causes it.
BTW, Obama supports fixing the tax code.
You picked a really really bad example. The Soviet Union collapsed from within because of corruption, over spending on the military, and trying to control to much of the world directly. Reagan had very little to do with it. Don't get me wrong, I believe he was a great president and he handled the slow collapses very well, but he didn't causes it.
BTW, Obama supports fixing the tax code.
btw: raising the top rates =/= "fixing the tax code"
I meant to say divvied out/up. An agency that knows how much people make will still need to exist in order to ensure that money goes out to people correctly. Furthermore, funds still have to be collected and sent to congress. The IRS would still exist.But, as I said, a reverse income tax combined with the fair tax would be better than the prebate. Some may say there isn't a difference, but I think there is, although a subtle one. The prebate is designed to remove the taxes from life necessities, giving money to everyone, where as a reverse income tax is designed to keep people just above the poverty rate and doesn't give money to those who aren't in direct need of it.
Exactly what taxes are abolished?The FairTax is a single-rate, federal retail sales tax collected only once, at the final point of purchase of new goods and services for personal consumption. Used items are not taxed. Business-to-business purchases for the production of goods and services are not taxed. A rebate makes the effective rate progressive.
.The FairTax is replacement, not reform. It replaces federal income taxes including personal, estate, gift, capital gains, alternative minimum, Social Security, Medicare, self-employment, and corporate taxes
All valid Social Security cardholders who are U.S. residents receive a monthly prebate equivalent to the FairTax paid on essential goods and services, also known as the poverty level expenditures. The prebate is paid in advance, in equal installments each month. The size of the prebate is determined by the Department of Health & Human Services’ poverty level guideline multiplied by the tax rate. This is a well-accepted, long-used poverty-level calculation that includes food, clothing, shelter, transportation, medical care, etc. See chart in Figure 1 below.
NO. He was not born in Kenya. That rules him out in my opinion.