The fair tax leaves little to argue about.
Regarding Linda Petroff's letter of Sept. 8, "Exempt childless from school taxes": The author has been searching for years for a reasonable answer to "Why do I have to pay school tax when I am childless?"
Well, here it is: It is required by federal, state and local laws.
Here are some more tax exemptions you should promote: People who don't drive should not pay any taxes for roads and bridges, construction or maintenance. People with health insurance should not have to pay any part of local indigent care. Home owners won't pay any part of the mortgage industry bailout.
If you don't have any poor relatives, you should not have to pay any part of the food stamps program, public housing or Peach Care for kids. If you don't use county recreation facilities, you should get a tax credit. If you don't benefit directly from SPLOST projects, you should be exempt. If you never go to the health department, you should be exempt. If you don't support the war in Iraq, you should get a federal tax credit.
Why not exempt everyone from every tax that does not benefit them personally? Whatever happened to "We the people"?
John Sullivet, Harlem
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The fair tax leaves little to argue about.
Obviously from a person with a house full of kids!
Well stated John Sullivet,clear and concise, you'll confuse about half of the population with your LTE.
Sullivet, I love all of your points, thank you! You have demonstrated beautifully the benefit theory of taxation, i.e. that people ought to pay taxes to fund those activities that directly benefit them. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that theory. It is consistent and, if applied, would make the true COSTS of all our "programs" much more transparent, instead of always hiding behind the PRICE. It's not the theory that underlies "modern" tax structures, which focus on one's ability to pay. Sullivet, you make all of your "modest proposals" (I've read my Swift) as if they were patently absurd, and yet you would not think the following inappropriate: People who don't agree with Republican politics should not have to support McCain's candidacy! Those with seafood allergies should not be required to eat at Red Lobster, which provides much-need entry-level jobs for the least fortunate among us! Those who dislike computers and don't wish to use them should not be required to purchase Microsoft products, even though that company is a major center of the US high-tech industry! See, Sullivet, you probably agree with my "absurd" examples...
For your edification: http://www.econlib.org/LIBRARY/Essays/rdPncl1.html "I, Pencil" by Read
so i ask.......... if the govt pencil only writes 44% of the time should i have to buy it?
I agree that those without kids should not pay school taxes any more than those over 65 who no longer have kids in school and have paid for thiers when they were. Let those pumping out all those kids pay for their education.
Also, gay people shouldn't have to pay taxes anywhere in the US, except for in California and Massachusetts.
Try to sell your house without a school system
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