There’s something oddly comforting to me about the return of FairTax discourse. “Any House Republican who backs this bill can accurately be accused of voting for … raising the price of everything by a huge amount at a time when inflation is already high shifting more of the tax burden to the middle class instituting a large new wealth tax on senior citizens increasing federal spending by a massive amount increasing the deficit and creating large black markets.” Here’s what National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru had to say about it: But so are many enthusiastic conservative tax-cutters, like the Wall Street Journal editorial board and Grover Norquist. Not surprisingly, liberal groups who judge the proposal regressive are against it. ![]() Prominent party figures like Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Rick Perry, and Herman Cain have all championed the idea over the years. Buddy Carter (R-GA) already has 23 co-sponsors for the current iteration. It’s a radical idea, but one which since its first introduction to Congress in 1999 has been a favorite of conservative Republicans. Virtually every American would get a monthly check from the government to cover the cost of paying the tax on essentials. The FairTax, at its heart, is simple enough: It would take almost every federal tax and replace them with a fat 30 percent sales tax on everything. But one of the more important was a concession to hold a vote about a radical tax reform proposal known as the FairTax. Kevin McCarthy had a hell of a time getting elected as House speaker, and a list of all the concessions he made to the most conservative members of his party wouldn’t fit here.
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