The Dems don't care a whit about the poor, they just want
their votes. To that end the current tax system is tweaked
to transfer money to the poor. That is why the "rich" [read
college grads with jobs] pay 75% of the revenue and the poor
pay less than 10%.


"Don Tabor" wrote in message
...
| On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:00:48 -0600, "Jim Macklin"
| wrote:
|
| It is now at least 28 months away and more if the voters
| don't turn out the Democrats in 2008.
|
| Actually, if we can get the Dems to take a serious look at
it, the
| FairTax has much to offer from their perspective. Unlike
the current
| system, which places a hidden tax burden of 28.34% on the
backs of the
| working poor (7.65% FICA plus 22.4% loss of purchasing
power of the
| remainder of their income), the FairTax truly untaxes the
poor.
|
| It will also recover many of the outsourced manufacturing
jobs their
| union workers are losing.
|
| I would not be a bit surprised to see the Dems rename it
and make it
| their own.
|
| Don
|
|
|
| Virginia - the only State with a flag rated
| "R" for partial nudity and graphic violence.