Comments on: How Tourists Can Pay Part of Our Taxes – Grimgold

By: grimgold

grimgold — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:59:49 +0000

Lulu, Peregrin, thanks for the response. The FairTax book goes into giving the poor a ‘prebate’ to cover them.
The rich don’t now pay their “fair share” as you well know.
But if we have tax people when they spend rather than when they earn, I think it would be more beneficial to the economy because it would tie the Fed Govt directly to the economy. Also I’d ask you to support this idea because it gets the real Nazis, the IRS, out of our lives.
Grimgold

By: LuLu

LuLu — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:06:17 +0000

By the way, if you really want the “tourists” to pay, you might consider what they do in Costa Rica – you can’t leave the country without paying a “tourist tax.”

Yup, before you can board the plane, you have to stand in a line and pay about $30 to the government as a little “than you for letting me visit your country” tip.

They even check boarding passes against the list of people who pay. The held up the plane I was on and a government employee came down the aisle looking for the passenger who managed to board without paying and we couldn’t leave until he ponied up the money.

I assume it is lucrative enough to pay for the people who have to do this.

But the “UNfair Tax” nope. It would hurt the people least able to afford it.

I like the idea of you being here to post your thoughts.

But please, before just spewing talking points and getting shot down over and over, do your homework.

Make sure what you are posting is true and that you have enough facts to defend your position.

By: Peregrin

Peregrin — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:01:24 +0000

I’ve pointed it out before, but it looks like I’ll have to do it again. A national sales tax would hurt the poorest people in the country and effectively give the richest the biggest tax break they’ve had yet.

Those people who cannot afford to save a dime spend all their money on necessities, and would therefore have 100% of their income taxed. Meanwhile, the wealthy spend only a tiny fraction on any goods at all.

No one likes taxes, but let’s see a better plan than this.