oh yeah - peace out ;) On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:13 AM, Dana <dana.tier...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:340218 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
