Pete Hendrickson (@LostHorizons)

The "Fair Tax"-- A Bad Idea Born Of Ignorance Rears Its Ugly Head Again Somehow, the CtC Warriors in Georgia have failed to educate their Congressman, Buddy Carter (R. 1st District), on the liberating truth about the income tax, leaving him to trot out a foolish and dangerous "Fair Tax" proposal. THE SO-CALLED "FAIR TAX" has periodically haunted America over the last twenty-five years or so, seducing those oblivious to the true nature of the income tax. Such folks imagine that the income tax is actually enacted the way the federal and state governments have been systematically misapplying it to most people over the last 80 years or so (with the necessary-- if unknowing-- cooperation of the exploited victims). Such folks never stop to wonder why Americans of the early years of the 20th Century-- every adult of whom had personal experience with, or knowledge of, the income tax-- amended the Constitution in 1913 for the express purpose of over-riding an 1895 Supreme Court decision which had thwarted the administration of the tax and allow it to resume... They should do so (starting at https://losthorizons.com/comment/WasGrandpaReallyaMoron.pdf, and then moving to https://losthorizons.com/The16th.htm for a more complete picture). ANYWAY, DURING ONE OF THE PREVIOUS exhumations of the "Fair Tax" zombie, I published a few words on the subject that should suffice to lay the moldy monster back in its crypt with anyone paying attention. Hopefully those good folks will share the whole story with enough others (members of Congress, especially)-- and do so quickly enough-- to spare us all from what would be a truly disastrous mistake. Here is that commentary: Continued: https://losthorizons.com/N/226.htm#2