Replace All Federal Taxes on Income with the Fair Tax Act , HR 25
Since Glenn Beck is riding the wave of popularity...
Kudos to Glenn Beck for having over half million people come to DC on 8/28. BUT, to keep the Beck phenomenon into proper perspective, I've re-posted a discussion here from over a year ago. Nothing has changed in the Beck diatribe since that time, and I'm beginning to wonder if the current "return to God" message is not a smokescreen over the policy issues he promotes.
Here's the old post:
Judge Napolitano boldly asserted that we will have no freedom until we get rid of the income tax, to a chorus of shouts and applause. Just as quickly, Glenn Beck, in an almost urgent attempt to sweep away that notion jumped in with a peculiar supportive statement, saying that “we wouldn’t even have to get that far”– but the mere threat would get the government to “LOWER THE RATE”. This is upsetting. Is it END the Income Tax, or LOWER the Income Tax??? We’ve been hearing that same old line from Republicans for generations, and we’re sick of the government having all the control over our money. The Judge knows well that ending the income tax would allow Americans to “starve the government into submission”. What does Glenn Beck know regarding the Income Tax. We love Glenn, and rally with him, but we’re NOT about to fall for deceptive political double-talk. MR. BECK, YOU NEED TO GET ON THE WAGON WITH THIS MOVEMENT. To date, when ending the Income tax & the IRS came up, all we’ve gotten from these “leaders” is giving us a FLAT tax with a simpler form to file, and no deductions or exemptions. That’s NOT ENDING the income tax, that’s AMENDING the tax with a “flattering” new RATE. WE would still have the abusive IRS and no power over our money. The ONLY TAX PLAN (as in no others) that END the Income Tax AND the IRS is the “FairTax” bill of 2009 HR25/S296 now in Congress. (www.FairTax.org) It taxes spending not productivity, and “You pay when YOU say!" COME ON, GLENN!!!
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Permalink Reply by cary henderson on
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> To my amazement Glenn actually defended the FairTax recently. I'm not sure what this means,there was actually support from Newt Gingrich hinted at also. We won't know where they stand until enough people join in supporting the FairTax. Then they will say they have supported it all along.
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It might be hard for Glenn to support Fair Tax since FreedomWorks is one of his sponsors and is also pushing for Flat Tax
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> O.K. How do we grow large enough to sponsor his show?
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Permalink Reply by Keith Ritzler on -
Unfortunately, Glenn is not terribly interested in how the government operates, but that it operates in accordance with the concept that our founding fathers envisioned. He might be concerned with the fact that those who want capitalism abolished have access to all of our personal financial information and that they can target the successful businessperson and point to him/her as a "greedy oppressor" who keeps others who are not as affluent in a subservient status.
I was upset when he "blew off" the FairTax originally, but after watching him for a while, I understant that he just has a different concept of what is important to the country. As he has said, he is a "big picture" guy and it is up to people like us to deal with the details of the government's day-to- day operation.
In other words, you have to get his attention by relating our ideas to his perspective of what's important to the country. He is trying to save the entire United States rather than make it operate better and save the citizens from the abuse of the IRS. And considering he gets thousands of e-mails and letters a day plus he has to keep looking over his shoulder since he has made enemies of just about every shady character in the government, good luck.
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