Do real “conservatives“ support the alleged fair tax ?
If one considers a “conservative” as one who supports and defends abiding by the intentions and beliefs under which our Constitution was agreed to, as those intentions and beliefs may be documented from the recorded debates during the framing and ratification process our Constitution, [each article, section, clause and amendment], then the alleged Fair Tax which has been proposed in the House, is anything but a “conservative” tax reform proposal! Indeed, the alleged fair tax is comparable to the principal under which the Marxist income tax is based — from each according to their ability. Under the AFT (alleged fair tax) although profits, gains, salaries and other forms of “incomes” are not the primary target of this tax, the AFT targets the value of the sale of people’s property, real and personal, which is another type of wealth based tax, and one which our founding fathers specifically objected to during the framing of our Constitution! [1] Our founding father’s resistance to a wea
