where does the "standard stipend" come from and how is it financed?
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Maureen <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This is where your argument falls apart. The amount of money for > someone who is at or below the poverty level would not decrease > because they would receive the standard stipend to cover all sales tax > they would owe. Everyone would receive the same amount, so you would > only owe tax if you spent tax than the stipend covered. > > Additionally there is nothing in the current Fair Tax plan that tracks > what anyone buys. If the proposal excluded medicine and food from > taxation, that exclusion would happen at the cash register, just as it > does now in states that don't charge sales tax on food. No tax is > proposed on housing. > > > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Dana <dana.tier...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Once you get significantly below 50k the problems start. By our > definitions > > this person does not have enough money to live, and we are going to > reduce > > that by a further 10%. The usual refutations of this are that this person > > isn't buying new products anyway and that necessities like food and > housing > > won't be taxed. Y-e-e-s-s....Also there is apparently going to be some > sort > > of tracking of who bought what to make sure these people don't pay too > much. > > Say what? This is not a small-government proposal. Everyone gets their > own > > minder checking the total of their purchases? Cause... this is not going > to > > be a case of oh yeah the poor, we will have social programs for them. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:340207 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
