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Would my children have to pay FairTax when making purchases?
by kelseyfrog 4y ago
Would my children have to pay FairTax when making purchases?
- nightski 4y agoYes with the money they received that was income tax free from either yourself or their own job.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoOh cool! And they get the right to vote too?
- nominusllc 4y agotaxation without representation
- gamblor956 4y agoYour children already pay sales taxes when they buy things... The FairTax is just a version of a GST.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoRight, but my kids don't fund the federal government solely through a federal sales tax which is what this proposes. It just doesn't sound fair that they should be taxed to this degree without representation - it violates the social contract.
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- SoftTalker 4y agoNon-citizen adults don't have a vote and they all have to pay taxes. You're not suggesting that all resident aliens should not pay taxes?
- kelseyfrog 4y agoWould you do me a favor and summarize what you think I said? I feel like what I'm writing and what you're reading are two different things.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoI think you said that taxation on your children without their (democratic) representation (via voting) was not a good thing and broke the social contract. SoftTalker then noted that we tax resident aliens but do not allow them to vote, presumably seeing some similarity in terms its impact on the (implicit) social contract. What do you see as the difference?
- kelseyfrog 4y agoThank you. A lot of times people end up talking Past each other in these sorts of threads. Appreciate it! Yes. That is a contradiction. Categorically, it's not fair to expect someone to pay for things without letting them have some degree of decision making in how the money is spent. Otherwise it's simply robbery.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoYet that is precisely how our system works vis-a-vis resident aliens ("green card holders"). They have all the responsibilities of citizens but no right to vote.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoSounds messed up. I'd really hate to get into a dialog where this sort of stuff is justified because it's just running rampant and it's just easier to give up and convince oneself that it's actually ok because the alternative is simply too difficult to imagine.
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