Lunar
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« on: November 21, 2008, 03:29:15 AM » |
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« edited: November 21, 2008, 03:31:17 AM by Lunar »
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I don't know if "everyone else says it" is a valid justification for anything, ever -- unless we are talking about what everyone else is saying.
The "Fair Tax" is unarguably anti-populist, I'm not quite convinced it's inherently regressive depending on how Huck wants to implement it. For example, my ideal world would be a progressive, item-based sales tax where every item has 1-10 levels of "luxury" value and bare-sustenance items like bread and milk would have 0% sales tax but something like a luxury yacht would easily have 50-60% sales tax. Sure, lobbies and influential industries would knock their products down a bracket or two, but no big deal
But to pretend like Mike Huckabee is an economic liberal is just ridic
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