I have read up on it, and had a couple of long discussions with Cameron about it. In the proposal he was talking about the sales tax supposedly gets rebated below a certain income level, which seems intrusive and bureaucratic.
But maybe it felt like I was putting you on the spot; this was not my intention. For my rich people example I was in fact thinking of jewelry or say Scottish sweaters, shrug. On 6/10/12, Maureen <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This is not just sometime I thought up in the last ten minutes. > Smarter people than me have been working on the National Sales Tax for > a long time. They've worked out most of these details. I think if > you actually read up on it, you would find it substantially fairer > than what we have now. > > As for buying off-shore, unless you are talking about small items like > jewelry, the cost of shipping the goods back to the states would like > be more than the sales tax. Kinda self-defeating. > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Dana <dana.tier...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> excluding food would make it somewhat less regressive. I don't want to >> say what a good idea, though, when the devil is in that sort of >> detail. Depending on what exactly is being taxed, though, and how, it >> might be fairer than what we have now. Although that is a very low bar >> ;) >> >> What's to keep the uber-rich, for example, from buying their consumer >> goods in the Bahamas or someplace with no sales tax? I realize that >> some of the more obvious possibilities already have a VAT so I am just >> playing devil's advocate here -- a lot depends on the specifics, is >> the point I am trying to make > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:351853 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
