>>30
this looks like an argument for taxing buisnesses, dispite they don't actually pay the taxes, thier customers, employees and shareholders (if applicable) do.
1.drunkard example. while some may argue some goos should have higher taxes, if that's allowed, some may argue that other items deserve to be taxed less, open that box, and the K street lobbyists will be back to needlessly complicating the tax code and adding the waste of haveuing to pay money to find out how much in taxes you owe.
oh, and this is also a case of holding companies responsible to the actions of thier consumers. if someone drinks irresponsively, the effects are thier responsibility alone. i'm not one to support removing the blame from the person at fault and throwing it at a company, or adding more blame just as an excuse for money to be collected out of greed or spite.
the fire example, if there are laws requiring fire extinguishers and emergency instruction, the violation should be fined, the result is that the tennants, or employess would get the burden of the fine, and start demading that the issue be resolved, lest they move or seek employment selsewhere.
fining a violation is one thing, it creates incentive to follow regulations. but a regular tax on any buisness has but one purpose: deception. that is, to hide tax costs in the price of goods, or lower wages or employment.
>>29
actually, the fairtax will be quite good for the economy.
first of all, the income tax will be gone. either workers will start getting more money as the taxes that were taken from them stop, or less appealing when first heard, companies will be able to cut wages and offer the same take-home pay. but this means reduced costs, which almost certainly means lower prices in any merket with competition.
buisness taxes will be gone, meaning companies costs will go down, which will do-doubt quickly translate into lower prices.
the prices you see today are inflated by taxes and shipping costs from overseas.
money will start flowing INTO america rather than out. taxes add so much to the cost of goods it's cheaper to make them overseas and ship them in. forien taxes AND the cost of importing those goods are evidently lower than the tax costs of doing it here. wages will go up as more jobs flow in, as american busnesses come back home, and other countries start making factories in america to have lower-cost goods from a country that doesn't add taxes to the cost of doing buisness.
if anything, people will have more money to buy good that are now ever-so-sligtly more expensive.