gww said:

JesusChrist said:

We need to abolish taxes on income and especially corporate taxes.  Those taxes are always factored into the prices of American goods and it makes us less competative in world markets.  The cost of social security and maintaining Federal highways are included in the price you pay for every American made product.  It doesn't have to be that way, and it wasn't always that way.  Our products would be more competative if we stopped adding those additional costs to them. 

Over 20% of the price of every American made product is taxes.  If we switched to a consumption tax we would instantly reduce the costs of our products on world markets and they would become competative overnight.  You would then see a resurgence in our manufacturing base.

I belive the link I am thinking of is Fairtax.org.

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Consumption tax just hit the poor who have to spend everything just to live.  Maybe we should lower wages to a dollar an hour too.  I am sure we could compete then if anybody survived it.

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