On 24 Apr 2004 23:21:16 GMT, ackatyu (Wdtabor) wrote:


The real issue is that Congress would fight it tooth and nail. Without the
IRS code, Congress loses their ability to try to force behavior from
certain
groups, and to dabble in social engineering. The IRS code is what gives
Congress the power to hurt their adversaries, and they won't give it up
without a fight.


Yet we have 48 co-sponsors for HR 25 so far, and the number is snowballing. Tom
Delay is pushing it in the House and Saxby Chamblis in the Senate.

With a good grassroots effort, we can do this. The biggest obstacle we face is
the attitutde that it can't be done.

You also face the flat tax places an unfair burden on the poor who can
not afford to pay the same percent as those in a higher income
bracket.

That and in the end only one group can pay taxes.
One way or another the corporations pass *ALL* tax on to the
consumers. You tax them and we pay it.

Any one in echonomics 101 should be able to show how this works in the
long run. Only in the short term can you actually tax the investors
and corporations as in the long run they either pass it in in charges,
or in lost expansion.

Those of us who work for a living, or are retired just end up having
to pay more for what sounds good until you dig into it.

I don't have the attitude it can't be done. I have the hope that it
won't.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com
Don