I don't find that answer terribly informative. Sounds kinda like the jobs that were going to be financed by the tax cuts. But ok, whatever. In a minute someone will tell me to read the website again. I am pretty sure it's not there... but I don't have days to sink into this discussion especially since both sides already seem pretty annoyed.
One of these days I will take another look. But meanwhile, I don't see how this tax could work without spending cuts (or is that a good thing?). Depending on what happens with the stipend, it also looks pretty regressive. On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 5:11 AM, Maureen <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It is financed by the tax. > > On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Dana <dana.tier...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 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:340217 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
