Friday, October 2, 2009

MIKE HUCKABEE ON THE "FAIR TAX" AND ABOLISHING THE IRS

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Former Arkansas Governor and Presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee, recently appeared on the FOX Business Channel to discuss overhauling the nation's overbearing tax system. Huckabee makes a convincing case in favor of abolishing the IRS and implementing the Fair Tax.

"We ought to be doing is to eliminate the IRS, get rid of all of the taxes on our productivity, and enact what's commonly called the Fair Tax. It's a proposal that would tax us at the point which we spend our money rather than upon which we earn our money so it doesn't penalize success."

Huckabee, his TV show on Fox News, was the top-rated cable news show last Saturday.

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Posted by Matthew Burke

2 Comments:

  1. While the Fair Tax is arguably a step in the right direction, the problem with the Fair Tax is the following, IMO. The Founders made the 10th Amendment to reserve the lion's share of government power to serve the people to the states, not the Oval Office and Congress. And the greater power of the states to serve the people is very important where paying taxes is concerned for the following reason.

    Chief Justice Marshall had established the following case precedent, now wrongly ignored, which appropriately limits Congress's power to lay taxes.

    "Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Chief Justice Marshall, GIBBONS V. OGDEN (1824) http://supreme.justia.com/us/22/1/case.html

    So not only is misguided Obama's proposed healthcare constitutionally unauthorized for example, but based on Justice Marshall's official words, the corrupt Congress never had the power to lay taxes to fund such a program in the first place.

    What's going on, IMO, is that state sovereignty-ignorant voters have been electing lawmakers to both the state legislatures and the federal senate who are as state sovereignty-impaired as the voters are. Consequently, these lawmakers have not been doing their jobs to protect state sovereignty by protecting citizens from illegal federal taxes and unconstitutional federal government interference in their lives as evidenced by illegal Obamacare.

    So until state lawmakers and the federal Senate start doing their jobs to protect state sovereignty by protecting citizens from constitutionally unauthorized federal taxes, what is the point in implementing the Fair Tax if much of the federal taxes that we now pay are illegal anyway?

    Finally, the following link should help give people an idea as to how state sovereignty-ignorant voters have shot themselves in the foot with big, corrupt federal government as a consequence of the ill-conceived, anti-state sovereignty 16th and 17th Amendments.

    http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=199792
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  2. I am excited by your approach.
    However, your approach that the "poor" would be excluded from paying, srikes me as counter intuitive, as you would phrase it.
    Example. If a person who is making $10,000 per year and is taxed fairly and spending it all, for example at %20 then he would pay $2000. A person who is making %10 million, would pay $2 million.

    That seems very fair to me.

    Even if the rich person, invests the money, it is actually taxed, because he is spending it when he buys employees, equipment, rent, vactations, business trips, etc. In other words "make it a "spending tax, payment tax, use tax, etc"

    However, taking money out of the country would have to be controlled.

    That brings us to another important subject.
    Electronic money, that must be controlled by the government.

    Which brings us to another important subject.
    electronic and fuller participation by voters in their government.

    Which brings us to another important subject.
    The Post office evolving into the electronic communication infrastructure.

    All of the above, are actually infrastructure issues. Where government should be focused.
    providing the infrastructre, upon which business and individuals can build upon.

    Sincerely
    Hector Storman
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Thank you for your comments. I appreciate your input!

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