So obvious
Few weeks ago I wrote about my reservations with the so called fair tax. I argued that focusing on the collection system instead of the distribution philosophy is the wrong approach. Since the fair tax isn’t aiming to reduce the government involvement and intrusiveness, it is by definition focusing on the minor problem. Interestingly I found today that One of the Republican candidates - Governor Mike Huckabee’s, one of the most prominent advocates for the Fair Tax, record as a governor was:
While we do not have a transcript of the governor’s speech, the NEA press release and the news accounts made no mention of his usual campaign mantra — that he would never raise taxes and that he had slashed taxes “94 times” as Arkansas governor, a record that was kept secret from Arkansas taxpayers. He could not very well say it in that forum because there were 60 delegates — the Arkansas contingent — and probably many more who knew that Huckabee had raised taxes repeatedly as governor, the largest share of them to improve the public schools and higher education. No governor in Arkansas history raised taxes so much and so often or raised government spending and debt to such heights.
I feel that I can move on now…
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From what I was reading the so-called fair-tax aims to solve the collection, while its intention is to keep the total amount collected equal. However for me the problem is the spending - the idea that government "should" distribute wealth and attempt to regulate any aspect of society.
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