YOU ballance the budget!

[Freeky]

well, typically groceries (or at least staples) aren't included in sales tax.

but change that to a $500 computer for your kid that now costs $700.

The teabagger's tax would apply to all goods and services.

You're kidding?

ALL goods and services.  I shall provide a link tonight, if you remind me.

Ugh. I believe you, but I'll remind you anyway, because I want to read the article.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

The one in the budget proposal is 5%.  

Yeah, and the one advanced by the new congress, which gets seated in January, is 23%.

Since they aren't seated yet, they haven't actually had a chance to submit a budget proposal.

[Thurnez Isa]

they have to get money somewhere... it's not official but it seems Obama has buckled on the bush tax cuts

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/10/white-house-gives-in-on-bush-tax-cuts_n_781992.html

[East Coast Hustle]

If the teabaggers actually push that through, I'm fucking out. I have somewhere to go that won't be affected, but I'll feel damn sorry for the rest of you.

[Juana]

National sales tax is not the same as a state sales tax. A national one would be on top of your state and local tax, and would hit things like rent.

Let's look at my locality + California + national sales tax (23% as per tea bagger desires).
My city: 10%
California: 7.25%
National: 23%

I buy $50 in groceries. Add $5, $3.63, $11.50 in taxes, and that's about $70.

What ECH said.

I just checked and my numbers are still (mostly) accurate. Stuff you can buy with WIC stamps are exempt from California and local taxes, but nothing else is. So assuming that I buy $30 in staples, that leaves $20 taxable ($2 and $1.45 plus the $11.50) which totals at $64.95.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

they have to get money somewhere...

Sure, so let's assrape everyone who makes less than $325K/yr.

[Thurnez Isa]

That sounds like (insert buzzword of the week) talk to me.

[Freeky]

National sales tax is not the same as a state sales tax. A national one would be on top of your state and local tax, and would hit things like rent.

Let's look at my locality + California + national sales tax (23% as per tea bagger desires).
My city: 10%
California: 7.25%
National: 23%

I buy $50 in groceries. Add $5, $3.63, $11.50 in taxes, and that's about $70.

What ECH said.

I just checked and my numbers are still (mostly) accurate. Stuff you can buy with WIC stamps are exempt from California and local taxes, but nothing else is. So assuming that I buy $30 in staples, that leaves $20 taxable ($2 and $1.45 plus the $11.50) which totals at $64.95.

That's a whole lot of painful.

[Requia ☣]

If they really put a 23% tax on everything, then I'm going to have very little in the way of reasons not to just shoot IRS agents for fun, its not like I'll be able to afford to stay out of jail anyway.

Of course, neither will most of the teabaggers responsible for this shit, so maybe I'll try to stay out long enough to get a good laugh in.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

That sounds like (insert buzzword of the week) talk to me.

wut

[The Good Reverend Roger]

If they really put a 23% tax on everything, then I'm going to have very little in the way of reasons not to just shoot IRS agents for fun, its not like I'll be able to afford to stay out of jail anyway.

Of course, neither will most of the teabaggers responsible for this shit, so maybe I'll try to stay out long enough to get a good laugh in.

You won't see IRS agents.  You'll see the 18 year old girl clerking the register at the grocery store.

[Juana]

If they really put a 23% tax on everything, then I'm going to have very little in the way of reasons not to just shoot IRS agents for fun, its not like I'll be able to afford to stay out of jail anyway.

Of course, neither will most of the teabaggers responsible for this shit, so maybe I'll try to stay out long enough to get a good laugh in.

You won't see IRS agents.  You'll see the 18 year old girl clerking the register at the grocery store.

Yep. IIRC, this would replace the income tax, so fewer IRS agents will be running around.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

If they really put a 23% tax on everything, then I'm going to have very little in the way of reasons not to just shoot IRS agents for fun, its not like I'll be able to afford to stay out of jail anyway.

Of course, neither will most of the teabaggers responsible for this shit, so maybe I'll try to stay out long enough to get a good laugh in.

You won't see IRS agents.  You'll see the 18 year old girl clerking the register at the grocery store.

Yep. IIRC, this would replace the income tax, so fewer IRS agents will be running around.

We have an inexhaustible supply of teenagers to shoot, so why the hell not?   

[Thurnez Isa]

That sounds like (insert buzzword of the week) talk to me.

wut

I've lost track of all the scary buzzwords now days.

There was the evil commi/nazis, socialists, hippies, liberals, atheists, Izlamists, Canadians... I don't even know anymore

[The Good Reverend Roger]

That sounds like (insert buzzword of the week) talk to me.

wut

I've lost track of all the scary buzzwords now days.

There was the evil commi/nazis, socialists, hippies, liberals, atheists, Izlamists, Canadians... I don't even know anymore

I think the term nowadays is "scum".

PREDICTION:  Even though they have what they want - or what they think they want - the teabagger rallies will continue.  Ho ho!  It's easier to use rallies to blame <insert group> for failed policies, rather than actually govern.