Smedley_buzk**l wrote:
People mistrust a flat tax because they fear, not without cause, that it will simply become an additional tax, rather than a replacement tax for many of those we now pay. Currently around fifty cents of every one of your dollars goes to one tax or another. The Fair Tax, similar to the flat tax, would replace these with a flat 25%. The Fair Tax goes to great lengths to insure replacement rather than additional. The Fair Tax would simply be a 25% (approximate) tax on every sale. As I said, with the hidden taxes you are only peripherally aware of, if at all, you now pay around 50% in taxes. No more income tax or gas tax or road use tax or wh**ever tax. Your dollar will go about 25% further.
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