Moving on. You are using some serious doublespeak. to call an equal tax regressive is incompetant. A regressive system is one that we have now. a true progressive tax would be either a fair or flat tax, one that treats each person individually, not one that gives more power to the government, which is regressive since historically that is what was in control.

You also seem to think its progressive to make the successful and responsible people pay for everything. Tell me, why is it that we should legalize theft and communism just because its what the mob wants? Nowhere in the constitution does it say that the wealthy have an obligation to pay for the plight of others.

BTW, you like the “progressive” tax system a lot. Are you aware that the second most important policy that Karl Marx believed in to found communism is a progressive tax system that will lead to a 100% tax on everyone? (this was just after the abolishing of private property) way to go with supporting Marxist theory. Nice

Moving on, the fairtax does help people in need. You obviously forgot about the prebate. The thing that makes it possible for those below the poverty line can live well enough.

You also clearly hate economic succes on the grounds of hard work. Is there some laziness in your life, it seems that you wouyld prefer to sit at home and expect others to take care of you while you vote in politicians that promise you more stolen moeny.

You seem like a democrat, which is fine, so I would assume you are pro-choice. Why hold a double standard? You want social freedom, but you want to limit economic choice. With the fairtax, taxes become voluntary since you dont HAVE to spend money in the free market.

You also seem to think that the revenue that our government needs will go away since everyone will be taxed at an equal rate. Granted, its the same rate, but consider that the rich consume more and spend more, therefore, they will still contribute a large portion to the government. Also consider the rampant growth of foreign companies investing in a US that doesnt tax their earnings, but only their goods. Many economists believe that oversea jobs will come here and we can literally compete with China as a manufacturer. More moeny and spending, means more tax revenue from the fairtax. The economy grows, tax revenue grows, and then we can move to further help the world with that moeny.

WHy you are against this is beyond me.

I shall attempt to do better.

There you will find more real, researchable, provable, honest, reliable facts than you are capable of comprehending in one sitting.

The problem with those facts are:

“- If someone tells me something, I will first make the effort to first, think about what he/she said is true and accurate.

If something I did not know, that does not make the other person “elitist”, all it does is point out my own ignorance (a malady with which we are all afflicted, and in more areas than those in which we are proficient), that I did not know it, especially when I should have already been aware of it.

My denying something, merely because I do not wish to admit it, does nothing but insure that I will remain ignorant.
That, at least to this individual, would mean that, not only would I remain in that state, but have lowered myself to the level of stupidity.

After all, one is not “stupid” but by virtue of choosing to remain in a state of ignorance.-”

— quoted from “RLaitres Posted April 20th, 2008 at 5:51 pm ”

Now, would you care to stay on topic as much as possible and stop trying to distract other posters with your name calling and character assassination attempts?

And of course, we have the “complaint” that some are smuggling drugs into the country. Let me ask the following question. How much smuggling of drugs, or other contraband, would be smuggled if we didn’t have so many American idiots buying drugs? Maybe, if we really want to solve that problem, we should address the reason why we have so many of our own idiots using drugs, don’t you think?

The reason for not providing amounts or statistics is probably because they have none and, it may be that it is not the “cost” that bothers most such people but rather “race”, or the fact that these immigrants do not pass the “standards of conformity” wanted by these “super patriotic” Americans.