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Precisely! As you say: "... when we hamstring ourselves from competing with environmental and social policies." free trade is ended.

First, ignoring the sleight.
Second, spot on. It was drinking buddy talk.

but the government will NEVER give up taxing the same $$$
100 times.

Play the game better? Thank BANKERS wrote the Federal Reserve Bill. Hardly call that playing the game better.
It was RIGGING the game from the start.

Statin? You mean like rosuvastatin?

I figure I should take some time and just bite the bullet and try it out... when I get a round tuit, LOL.

Thanks, fairbro!

Yes, DuckDuckGo is my current go-to to find information. Often, however, if I'm in the middle of a post I just wing it rather than open a new tab and do a search - I've lost some good typing doing that from time to time, don't know why because it doesn't happen all the time.

No allopathic pharma here.
Within the consortium we have 35 years each allopathic/homeopathic husband/wife team. They are strongly connected to physicians and nurses that are of our mindset. A text or call gets me answers within 48 hours if it is pressing.
Eastern Wis. is a living cornucopia of natural medicines. The fruits and fungi available are extraordinary. Yesterday was the first batch of Apricots for juice and jam. Peaches and sometimes Nectarines are available home grown. We have the most profuse growth of Elderberry and Aronia I have ever heard of. These are loaded with Quercetin and C .... best extracted with shine ..... local pharmacy ... kindasorta ..... Good BP meds.

Well, I'm happy that you spent enjoyable time with someone. But the harsh reality is that your 'arguments are clueless & pointless"

Either you failed to understand the point of the "Prebate or Negative Income Tax (NIT)" which is to cancel the effects of the stiff tax rate for the lowest earners.

The point is that ALL new goods are taxable. If there are no categories, then there are no places to hide in loopholes.

There are no 'new houses' that can be bought for $1. And when the carpenter buys the lumber, since he is buying a raw material, all he has to do is provide his tax number to the lumber yard and the purchase is not taxed. There is ONE and only one taxable transaction, that is when the new house is sold to the first buyer.

To keep it simple I'm going to say the house will cost $100k for the builder to make his profit. The builder will have to collect $125k to cover the tax and remit $25k to the New IRS.

Now imagine the buyer decided to sell after a single year. He knows a comp house can be bought for $102k from the builder, but the comp will still cost $127,500 with tax, so the price he can ask allows him to recover the tax outlay he made.

What you didn't understand is that a house is not really 'consumed' the was a hamburger is. It retains value even when some of its price was due to the tax.

The same principle applies for ANYTHING that someone might sell as used. If it retains value, the seller WILL include some portion of the taxes paid to acquire the item new in the resale price, whether it's a house a car, boal, or an old waffle iron for $0.25 at a tag sale.

The pint I'm making is that none of the secondary market transactions are any of the government's business, and my way on interpreting the FairTax helps keep it that way.

Would you require the babysitter to report her income as taxable? It's a service and nothing was consumed. If not then why would you insist that college professors services be taxed, or a lawyer's or a hair stylists?

FWIW: I don't like bankers either, but they don't write the rules, the legislature does.. Bankers are just grown-up Dungeons & Dragons geeks that are very good at following and interpreting the rules to their own advantage. Don't take it personally. Just learn to play the game better.

My BFF and I spent many evenings "sipping" and talking about this. First, unprepared/uncooked food should not be taxed.

But the only New Goods are taxed, creates crazy incentives. Buy a new house for $1 and sell to the seller $100K in "Used Coins" for $1. Or Rent the house to a fictitious character (or otherwise) for 30 days. Sell the house as used. (Probably why you considered for consumption only).

Thanks for chiming in. We could easily do better.
But it starts with putting the Ponzi Bankers in Prison, stripping their family's of their ill-gotten wealth.
And using an incorruptible form of money government cannot control the printing of.

Our country was formed with the Government giving you 40 acres and a Mule.
We need to get back to that. Because now they take your .4 acres and prevent you from having a mule, making your own food, or bartering without paying taxes on the "value".
Under the threat of prison.

I've been a proponent of the Fair Tax since Neal Boortz was plugging it on his radio show.

I'd take it even farther than those people do. New Goods for Consumption ONLY!!! No taxes on services at all, just goods.

Another great example!

Give Duckduckgo a reasonable question and you don't need AI at all.
(and always use a VPN online.)
I wonder if AI is just another way to rot our brains to uselessness.

When I get a memory misdirection. I ask it, like, "What's the name of that movie where the girl wakes up every morning but it's still the same day?" stuff like that.

With the AI, it seems a surface question will get you a surface answer. I asked it about Ukraine and it gives the standard narrative, then I say "What about Maidan in 2014, the US role in it, and the Human Right of Self-Determination for the people of Donbass?" and it gives a much more balanced reply. It seems to only go as deep as you want to go, if that makes any sense!

Never used ChatGPT, though it seems to be getting popular. I've seen examples of Googles version screwing things up so I have no desire for it. Never heard of Claude AI.

I need to find out more about these things - I admit my ignorance at this time.

"Both. Everyone knows that the tarifs are paid by the consumer." Yes, but there's a catch-22 here. The consumer loses when the cost of goods increase because of a tariff, but the consumer loses even more when the jobs are shipped to a foreign country leaving the consumer with very limited income and is rendered unable to buy much tariff or not. Producing consumers are a positive, too many non-producing consumers get us into trouble.

The only thing "right" about the OKC bombing was to fix it forever as a date-marker in history of the Waco massacre. The coincident dates can't be altered by a Congressional Committee, the media or a Deep State Bureaucrat

The media censors any mention of Waco anyway

Ask the ChatGPT, or Claude AI

Ohhhh, that too! The EPA and DEI tax on American production can get pretty steep. I think there's a "lawyer tax" built in there someplace, too. And do I need to mention the IRS?

All taxes, tariffs and expenses are ultimately paid by the consumer. It's the "price" of anything. And it is paid directly or indirectly.

Who pays for the gasoline tax for truckers? (the consumers).

TBH, I would prefer a Fair Tax/Consumption tax and ZERO income tax for my personal income.

You should encourage me to save, and work.
The current tax model encourages me to stop making money once the government basic gets 1/2 of my nominal income towards the end of the year.

The problem is when other tariffs LOCK US OUT of their markets. So their consumers only pay more for OUR products. Causing us to lose the sales.

Or "better" when they tell the dug companies "we will ONLY let you sell them here, if you lower them by 90% of what stupid americans are paying" Causing the drug companies to charge US even more.

Yes, very good point. Over zealous unions also come to mind as they price American labor out of the market. One would think any foreign country wouldn't need tariffs on American goods if we keep shooting ourselves in the foot, but it seems they still use them because in spite of "self flagellation" America can still out run them.

Definitely a good flick!

Yes, Ron Brown. Thanks. I hate it when that happens - I can recall a lot about an event, but get memory block on a name or some other detail.

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oooh, goooooood point!
The DEI Environmentalist are the next to be dealt with!

Hey, I hope you are not on a statin.
If so, read up on statin induced "temporary" dementia. YES, removing the statin, after a while, the brains start working again.
Side note: Current Alzheimer's rates have a STRONG Correlation to the explosion of Statin Rx writing. (Yes corr. is not causation).

But when they can repeat the studies easily.
Take people off, dementia clearly reduces.
Put them back on, it comes back.
That's starting to look like causation.