From: bugo on
"Dave Head" <rally2xs(a)att.net> wrote in message
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>>Less taxes = shoddy government.
>
> The Fair Tax would equal what the income taxes deliver now.

Then why bother? Trading the devil you know for a devil you don't know for
another isn't progress.

>>Which is what the Repubs want, for
>>government to fail just so they can say "I told you so!"
>
> Nope. They're trying to keep the gov't from failing. The Fair Tax is
> one way to do it, and actually the best way.

Bullshit. The GOP has been trying its damndest to make government fail for
at least 40 years if not longer.

From: Larry G on
On Jul 25, 8:21 pm, "bugo" <wat...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> "Dave Head" <rally...(a)att.net> wrote in message
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> news:aijp46ttdd878cl257dl51hj4rt0t6sq0c(a)4ax.com...
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> > On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:26:12 -0500, "bugo" <wat...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
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> >>"Dave Head" <rally...(a)att.net> wrote in message
> >>news:qtgp46d5r4tkanqg29s7vchdueeeeefm17(a)4ax.com...
> >>> On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:52:23 -0500, "bugo" <wat...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
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> >>>>"Dave Head" <rally...(a)att.net> wrote in message
> >>>>news:0noo46d4ci8f79qqnpbbipgijecti1ufgv(a)4ax.com...
> >>>>> Kill the income tax, make everyone prosperous, then they won't need
> >>>>> it.
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> >>>>I wish I had such a simple, dumbed down, black and white worldview.  It
> >>>>would be a lot easier than seeing the world as a complex thing.
>
> >>> Killing the income tax is pretty simple - its a cancer in the economy..
>
> >>Simplifying the income tax is a great idea.  Eliminating it for a sales
> >>tax
> >>that unfairly overtaxes the poor is criminal.
>
> > The poor don't pay a penny of Fair Tax.
>
> Explain.  The way I understand, the "fair" tax is a sales tax.  Everyone has
> to pay a sales tax, and at the same rate.

what exactly is being taxed with the FAIR TAX?
From: Larry G on
On Jul 25, 8:25 pm, "bugo" <wat...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> "Dave Head" <rally...(a)att.net> wrote in message
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> news:rpjp46t45t4ao7ifp16aea327i3g5e7ku3(a)4ax.com...
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> >>You didn't answer why it's OK for insurance companies to have death panels
> >>while it's not OK for the government to.
>
> > I don't believe they do.  They have to honor what's in their
> > contracts.
>
> Then you're wrong.  It's a well-known fact that insurance companies have
> defacto death panels.

you mean the big bad insurance companies will kill grandma if she gets
expensive?

oh no.... say it isn't so... The Republicans said only the govt did
stuff like that.
From: US 71 on

"Dave Head" <rally2xs(a)att.net> wrote in message
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> So what else is new. The bottom line, tho, is that the insurance
> company not only has to pay the bill, but often will get hung with
> penalty payments too.

Then they raise everyone's rates.


From: Beam Me Up Scotty on
On 7/25/2010 5:35 PM, Matthew Russotto wrote:
> In article <gmjo461vf228o2k9r60ag1oemg3gdqqpsr(a)4ax.com>,
> Dave Head <rally2xs(a)att.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Those are income taxes, and would go away with the repeal of the 13th
>> Amendment.
>
> Now you've done it; now Larry is going to call you a racist.
> (It's the 16th amendment... the 13th amendment bans slavery)

the 16th creates Slavery....