May 5: The Fair Tax and Why We Need It
I am a student who is paying for college on my own with no help from my parents. My mom and dad work long hours, and bring home work from their jobs to complete. I am just one out of the millions of college students who have similar stories. I don’t want a handout, but I want a level playing field.
If I work, I have to pay a large portion of my paycheck to taxes and into programs that I will never benefit from, such as Social Security. If I work too much, I lose aid from the government, and have to take out loans. By the end of college, I will most likely be in debt up to my ears. I hope for the day when I can keep my whole paycheck and be taxed on what I consume.
There is mass confusion surrounding our tax code, and it is beginning to stimulate the debate to reform the present tax system. Reform plans range from a minor overhaul of the income tax to completely abolishing it. I strongly believe that the income tax is unconstitutional, and our current tax system punishes citizens for succeeding by placing them in a higher tax bracket. U.S. businesses are double-taxed and flee the U.S. to other countries where it is cheaper to operate, or find a loophole in which to escape taxation.
What we need is a fair, simple, transparent tax system that any American can understand at a glance -- a new tax system that would end late-night sweating over endless forms and allow us to trash our shoeboxes full of receipts. We need a system that won’t hide the tax burden in the cost of goods and services; a system that will allow working people to take home their entire paychecks, with no deductions.
We need a tax system that will eliminate April 15 fears, and anxiety over whether or not we will be one of the unlucky millions of people who are assessed a civil penalty by the IRS each and every year, or who receive the dreaded audit notices. We need a plan that will benefit all Americans, and bring back firms to the U.S.
There is one plan that can do all that - the Fair Tax, the perfect vision of a federal consumption tax.
Rusty Kuciemba
Tyler
Rusty Kuciemba
Tyler
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