The fair tax is a proposal that needs strong consideration right now.
 My favorite part of this proposal is not that I think it will lower my taxes,
 although it will. It's not because it will lower the taxes of  the bracket I would
like to be in, but it will do that too.  What I like most about it is that it will live up to its name, it will be fair.
In fact it will allow every man, woman and child with enough allowance to buy a candy bar to become a taxpayer.

The current tax plan leaves 40% of Americans without a tax bill on April 15.  Some call that
compassionate, I cal it a gross disservice to the Americans who are paying the freight on this government.
If I had my way, those who do not pay federal xould not vote in federal elections. If you want to vote, you should have, as the modern saying does
"skin in the game".  It has become too easy for those who pay no taxes to support programs that will burden'
the rest of us.  They vote for bigger and better handouts because it is free money to them.  The same way that they use emergency rooms as
their personal HMO's.  The fair tax brings them in to the universe of taxpaying citizens.

If you are not acquainted with the idea of the fair tax, it's really not surprising.   Although the concept has been gaining momentum for several years,
most people know little if anything about it.  It's not a topic that makes it to your network news and the major
newspapers have given it little notice.  The Fair tax proposal would dismantle the IRS.  It would eliminate corporate and income taxes.
The only tax would be a tax on consumption.  A national sales tax if you will.  A tax that everyone who consumes
goods and services within the United States would pay.  Currently we pay income taxes, and we pay the corporate taxes of the companies we support
through the products we buy.  Taxes are a cost of business and all costs are passed on to the consumer through the pricing of the product.  The
fair tax puts all of those taxes into one single tax paid at the cash register.  

Currently estimates for the fair tax rate are at 23%.  But the fact is that much of that rate is already being paid in the prices we pay now.
 As the taxes are taken from the cost and added at the point of sale, the price of the good itself will now reflect it's
actual price and t not the several layers of taxation you have paid along the way.  The current plan also calls for a monthly "prebate" check
to be sent to each household to cover the amount of the tax that would be spent on basic necessities for someone at the poverty level.  This way
if you consume nothing more than the basic necessities, the fair tax costs you nothing more than the current system, and possibly even less.
 the beauty of the fair tax though is that it will finally tax the hardest class to tax in America, the idol rich.  As wealth one holds but has not gained
in a regular income stream is currently nontaxable (trust fund babies, inheritances, etc...) there are many people with vast resources who escape
taxation by merely being non-productive.  The fair tax eliminates that exemption.  What good is being rich if you can't enjoy a few luxuries in life?
When you enjoy them, you join the ranks of the American taxpayer.  Welcome to the crowd, we've missed you.

The fair tax also gives another important advantage to the taxpayers.  If you are unhappy with the action of the government at any given time, you can choose
to deny them revenue by changing your spending habits.  If you choose to fix your old car instead of buy another,
you pay considerable less in taxes.  If you buy any product, that is less "high-end" then what you would have
ordinarily bought, you lower the tax revenue.  When you fix a meal at home instead of eating out... well you get the idea.
The beauty of this is that it will make congress more responsive to the taxpayers.  We would have actual control over the money
they have to work with.

The current congress is loathe to accept such a revolutionary idea in the collection of revenues.  I can't deny that it would
be likely to destroy the political ideology  we know  today.  If you don't understand my claim think about this:   As I said
at the beginining of this blog, currently 40% of all Americans pay no income tax.  If you are not paying taxes, why
would you care how high they go?  And it they were paying taxes, don't you think they might be more interested in how they are
dispensed?