by Philip A. Farruggio
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
25 July, 2010
What we all were taught since grade school is ‘ Voting is the most important civic duty we have ‘ . Sadly, nothing was instilled in us about our rights of free speech, assembly and dissent. Ben Franklin himself stated ‘ Dissent is the lifeblood of democracy’ . The other day this guy comes to our door handing out flyers for some local candidate he refers to as a ‘ Real conservative…. She supports Fair Taxes ‘ . Oh, I said, you mean she wants to get rid of the federal income tax ( obviously, since Florida has no state income taxes ) replacing it with Sales Tax Increases. ‘ No ‘ , this genius parrots back, ‘ We want a Consumption Tax , much fairer than the income tax. ‘ Oh, I reply, you mean , like I just said, she wants a sales tax increase to make up for not having a federal income tax. He wouldn’t budge on the wording Sales Tax, so I went along with his tag. I asked him if he ever noticed how much we all pay at the gas pump in taxes, out of the nearly $ 3.00 a gallon we fork over. He did not have a clue as to what this all meant. Continue reading
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