The FairTax and the ABC GOP debate 08/05/07

Naysayers against the FairTax - ipso facto defenders of the income tax - are unwittingly bringing the country to an economic meltdown ( Dr. Kotlikoff http://snipurl.com/meltdowninprogress ). Do naysayers really believe:

• Workers love hourly confiscation of their pay, through gov't withholding and don't mind wasting another 50 hrs (avg) on a tax return?

• It's better to have theIRS fishing through citizens' income transactions (audits, interest, penalties, and threats against individuals, families, businesses; confiscation of homes, property, and bank accounts) rather than - Gawd forbid - issuing a gov't check to an individual (while pretending that Social Security payments disbursement logistics really can't work for "prebates")?

• That an monthly advance tax rebate is the same thing as "being on the dole" ? (Only lobbyists, special interests, and business deserve "handouts" - the politician gets a payoff from a lobbyist, the lobbyist gets a payoff from its client, and the citizen gets higher taxes and/or prices that pay for it all.)

• It's better to have a gargantuan tax collection "service" in Washington, than to have 50 decentralized, smaller, leaner state collection agencies collecting taxes from fewer sources?

• That FairTax's backing by many economists ( http://snipurl.com/econsopenletter ) doesn't carry any weight because (the Brookings') Wm Gale's testimony before the President's Commission on Tax Reform ( http://snipurl.com/taxpanelrebutted ) is somehow above all that?!

The time for sitting around, pontificating, is over. We have NO CHOICE but to ACT: http://snipr.com/scrapthecode

I've been a FairTax supporter since before the book by Boortz & Linder.

My blog, and my many comments made on other blogs or columns, where I express the benefits of the FairTax are my way of supporting it.

I tell everyone I know and discuss issues with about The FairTax. The more people know of it, understand it, and want it the better the odds it will happen.

Huckabee is a very adroit public speaker and proved so again, today, at the Iowa Straw Poll. He communcates his message in life-like, cogent terms, with compelling examples, like the story of what his little 7-yo daughter entered into the comments section after visiting the holocaust museum, “Couldn't somebody do something?” Effective.

Huckabee puts listeners at ease, and reassures them through clear concepts and a natural, integrated manner of communication (no doubt something well-cultivated as a pastor). He’s not demanding, like a Ron Paul, nor is he as “well-scripted” as Romney, nor as mechanical-squinty like Brownback.

Most importantly, Huckabee convinces many that he is ONE with the FairTax grassroots movement.

I have since I saw him in the first debate.

I'm happy Huckabbe took second in the Straw Poll. I would have liked to see him do better, but I had a feeling one of the better funded candidates would take first place.