Talk about living in a fantasy land!! You can not possibly even begin to believe that this “Fair Tax Plan” ever stands a chance of even passing the most ardent tea party member of the House of Representatives! Forget it, it is NOT going ot happen!! The Real Estate interests in this country (with their $millions and $millions spent influencing Congress) alone, would stop it long before they would allow the interest deduction for real property to even be remotely endangered by this, And that is not even including the banks and mortgage houses.
It is NOT going to happen in Congress, let alone passing a repeal of the 16 th amendment. You should understand that the most unpopular amendment to the Constitution in history was that of Prohibition. Prohibition began on January 17, 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect. In fact the 16 th amendment was passed to enable this 18 th amendment, as up until the 16 th amendment the federal government was funded chiefly by the excess taxes on such goods as alcoholic materials! This amendment became so unpopular that it was the ONLY amendment to the US Constitution ever to be repealed by a later amendment!! The amendment process was made to be this difficult by the original framers of the US Constitution deliberately as they wanted a stable democracy for their own purposes (good or bad).
Even with the unpopularity of the current federal tax system, if you and these others on this site actually think that you can even begin to have such influence, then compared to you people, the Hobbits in J.R. Tolkien’s Hobbit World not only exist in reality, but they are far more in touch with the average American at the same time!!!
Talk about living in a fantasy land!! You can not possibly even begin to believe that this “Fair Tax Plan” ever stands a chance of even passing the most ardent tea party member of the House of Representatives! Forget it, it is NOT going ot happen!! The Real Estate interests in this country (with their $millions and $millions spent influencing Congress) alone, would stop it long before they would allow the interest deduction for real property to even be remotely endangered by this, And that is not even including the banks and mortgage houses.
It is NOT going to happen in Congress, let alone passing a repeal of the 16 th amendment. You should understand that the most unpopular amendment to the Constitution in history was that of Prohibition. Prohibition began on January 17, 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect. In fact the 16 th amendment was passed to enable this 18 th amendment, as up until the 16 th amendment the federal government was funded chiefly by the excess taxes on such goods as alcoholic materials! This amendment became so unpopular that it was the ONLY amendment to the US Constitution ever to be repealed by a later amendment!! The amendment process was made to be this difficult by the original framers of the US Constitution deliberately as they wanted a stable democracy for their own purposes (good or bad).
Even with the unpopularity of the current federal tax system, if you and these others on this site actually think that you can even begin to have such influence, then compared to you people, the Hobbits in J.R. Tolkien’s Hobbit World not only exist in reality, but they are far more in touch with the average American at the same time!!!