VIEW: 17-10: FAIRTAX Update

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By Bob McDowell (Born Neil Carson) Number 17-10
FAIRTAX UPDATE Week of 2017/03/06
Four weeks ago there was a brief discussion was done on the PRESDT promise of revising
the income tax laws we have suffered through for these many decades and revisions, each making
things worse. The result being the development of one of the largest and most corrupt and
dictatorial departments in the US Government, the IRS. It has also been used to attack and
intimidate those with opposite views to the sitting administration, even to the point of
criminal indictments and jail time, all of which were blatantly illegal.
The imposition of an income tax is permitted under Constitutional Amendment XVI (16)
which simply reads, in full: "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on
incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and
without regard to any census or enumeration". This socialist oriented amendment was ratified
by the necessary number of states on February 3, 1913. A tax on the proceeds of one's labor or
wisdom is, in my and many others opinions, unethical, immoral, and most regressive.
In 2005 a book titled "The FairTax Book" appeared as authored by then talk show host
Neal Boortz and then Congressman John Linder, R-GA. While skeptical, after reading same my
attention was captured and now believe it to be the answer to most, if not all, the fiscal
problems of the USA. That is except for the tendency of those in government to spend in excess
of revenue at all times, apparently expecting there to be an unlimited source of funds.
In essence, the FAIRTAX would replace ALL existing tax revenue to the federal
government with a single 'embedded in sales price' of all goods at the point of FINAL retail
sale. The tax, 23%, would be collected by the tax authority of each state and forwarded, less
a 1/2% fee, to the US Treasury each month. Thus it would be a 'voluntary' tax, based on how
much one wished to spend on the purchase of NEW items. The only report necessary for a family
to make would be an annual statement of the number of individuals residing in the home. This
would then be used to determine the amount of "prebate" to be paid each month, in advance, of
the estimated amount of tax to be collected on the necessities of a poverty level family of
that number reported.
Thus all corporate taxes would disappear, including withholding, and income. Items
exported would not be taxed, as wholesale, and the bookkeeping costs of the employee taxes
deducted would disappear, as well as the costs to both individuals and corporations would be
totally unnecessary. There would be no: Social Security, Medicare, Death, Self-employment,
alternative minimum, gift, capital gains as well as income tax.
This morning the office of OK-1 District Congressman Jim Bridenstine advised me that
in the current new Congress House the FAIRTAX is HR 26 and that so far there are 36 House
co-sponsors signed on, including three of the five from Oklahoma. In past sessions there have
been as many as 62 co-sponsors, to my knowledge. Only Congressmen Cole and Russell are not in
and in the 12 years that the proposal has been in the hopper, Cong. Cole has not to my
knowledge ever been a co-sponsor.
My fear is that if the PRESDT stated program of a "three level" tax rate should
prevail, the costs of filing, and payroll deductions would continue and could be 'tinkered with
' by misguided members of future Congresses to the detriment of both individual citizens and
the economy.
We all need, if this seems desirable or necessary, to lean on both Senators and our
own, and others whose attention we might have, and secure their promise to 'get on board' and
if not why not. The result would be a massive economic boom for our nation.
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Composed February 23, 2017
Robert W. McDowell, Jr. © 2017 841 Lynwood Lane
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