Subject: Bush & The Fair Tax Comment: I would like to see the President get the message loud and clear that we have tried a "high and progressive income tax," as prescribed by Marx in "The Communist Manifesto," long enough now to see it for what it is: a crippling and socially divisive tax on production, where what is needed in a market oriented society such as ours, is a tax on consumption, but definitely not both. We currently have limousine liberals, among the very wealthy, who lead lavish life styles of conspicuous consumption, who pay little in tax, but contribute mightily to contempt among the masses for wealth. Meanwhile people whose pleasure in life is hard work and stewardship of investment in technology, staff development, plant, and materials, have that investment treated with the same contempt as the conspicuous consumption of the idle rich. |