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Star Buys Kelly Line on National Sales Tax

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Over on the Star’s Pueblo Politics blog, there is a review of Gabrielle Giffords’s ad attacking Jesse Kelly for his support of a 23% national sales tax, known by the purposely innocuous name “Fair Tax.”

The Star notes that the Fair Tax plan would replace all federal taxes with the sales tax, implying that somehow Giffords is being deceitful by not including this fact.

This misunderstands what Giffords’s message actually is: that Kelly’s plan will cause taxes to go up for the majority of Americans. Yes, people will no longer be paying income taxes, but most folks (as I’ve written before) will be paying more in taxes despite this.

The data supporting Giffords’s position is readily available, and the rhetoric from Fair Tax supporters that somehow this will be a tax decrease for everyone defies the logic of anyone who passed a freshman algebra course.


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