Here are a few reasons. They dovetail well with these.

1. The Fair Tax is a huge, great big, fat, enormous shift of power away from Congress (the folks who made this current mess possible and probable). Congress uses its tax power to pick winners and losers (contrary to nature). Successful people tend to be successful because they worked hard, invested some effort and sweat, beat out the competition, and got somewhere. Thus, when a successful person buys a house, they tend to buy one they can afford based upon the credit history they have established. Then, the all-seeing eye of government looks out across the landscape and says, “Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone could enjoy success like these successful people. I know, let’s make sure everyone can have a nice, big house.” Then the Congress enacts drivel like the Community Reinvestment Act and then brags about how many people are now homeowners. When Congress picks winners, they often end up losers. When the Fair Tax shifts all that power away from Congress, we’ll have less of this kind of thing to deal with (we can’t eliminate it altogether if Congress remains in session at all).
2. Putting all those withholdings back in American workers’ pockets will be a huge, authentic boost to the economy. I say authentic because the “economic stimulus” check fiasco was a bogus attempt to inject borrowed money into the economy via tax “refunds” to some persons who never paid taxes in the first place. That’s wealth redistribution. Allowing people to keep their own, hard-earned money will motivate investment and savings.
3. Making the tax and compliance system simpler and fairer encourages employment. I’d say we could use it.
4. No capital gains taxes make investing in that stock market very, very attractive. I’d say it could use it.
5. America will become the tax haven of the world. With no corporate or individual income taxes, America will attract investment from all over the world. American companies that have shifted part/all of their operations outside our borders for tax reasons will have the opportunity and motivation to bring their businesses back home, employ Americans, and inject serious capital back into the American economy.
6. Thousands (maybe millions?) will be added to the tax-paying base. Currently, the government is increasingly shifting the tax burden to a smaller and smaller group of persons; therefore, their share gets larger and larger. At some point this becomes unsustainable and Atlas will shrug. The better and fairer Fair Tax taxes what we buy new rather than what we earn, so it broadens the tax base out in a huge way. It is intrinsically more fair. Those who currently avoid their fair share of taxes by creative bookkeeping, doing cash business, and just being cheats have no way of escape — if they choose to make purchases of new retail items. Imagine, all the illegal immigrants, hookers, strippers, drug dealers, gamblers, etc., will become taxpayers. The broader we share the burden, the cheaper each person’s share gets.
7. All the lobbying that occurs to curry favors in the tax code goes away.
8. All the payback to corrupt politicians who provide favors in the tax code goes away.
9. The tax code goes away.

I could go on, but I will leave it there for tonight. All I know is that the economy is in a downturn, and Obama’s tax increases will doom us to depression. How I long for McCain to get on the stump and say that in light of the current economic turmoil in America, he and Sarah Palin have closely evaluated the Fair Tax and plan to make it their top priority (behind national security) when elected. I predict a landslide. Unfortunately, McCain isn’t yet on board, and as you can see here, the Fair Tax is phenomenally better than McCain or Obama’s plans.

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By the way, DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT leave comments here that are full of the typical lies about the Fair Tax. As a general rule, if you haven’t read and understood the Fair Tax book, your opinion means very little to me.

I was on generator overnight. Lost COX Internet around 2 AM or so. It was back on briefly around 4 AM and has been off since then (I was up to gas up the generator). Tried calling COX 5 times this morning and kept getting a busy signal after waiting in the Muzak queue forever. Wasn’t thrilled with that.

But, we’re back up and the heater is on, so I am happy!!!

And in other, good news, I have it on good authority from John Wylie at the Oologah Lake Leader (which is also without power) that Mayes County Election Board was notified by NE Tech Center Board today that they have canceled the sneaky tax election scheduled for tomorrow, Dec. 11. No new date has been set. Recent ice storms have left many counties with no or few polling places with power. Terri Thomas, Mayes County Election Board, said there were no polling places operational in Oologah, Owasso, or Inola and few in Claremore. Additionally, some precinct voters remain unable to leave their homes due to downed branches and/or power lines. Further, several election boards–including the State Election Board–had advised NE Tech Centers that the vote, if it had passed, would likely face legal challenges and be invalidated due to the lack of proper public notice.

So, not all the news is bad!

Sometimes out prayers just have to be, “Thank God it’s not always like this.”

UPDATE: If you try to access the WynnBlog or WynnCast and cannot do so, try again a bit later. Power is still intermittent as the generator does tend to run out of gas occasionally.

Just driving around town in the dark, it looked like a combat zone. Many trees are down, and they have caused severe damage. My parents have a generator going, but Jeane’s folks had only a gas wall heater, and we thought it better to bring them here.

The real impression I get is one that I have known for a long time. We all must accept that George W. Bush is not a conservative. Now, I voted for Bush, twice. I supported him. I contributed to him. He was more conservative than Gore and Kerry, but he is not A conservative (think Reagan or Goldwater). Bush is a neo-con, socially moderate to liberal. He campaigned as a “compassionate” conservative. Translate “compassionate” to mean “big government spending.” Bush, a Republican, has spent more and created more bureaucracy than our party should ever have allowed him. We Republicans came to power on a promise of lower taxes, less regulation, smaller government, less spending, etc. Now that Republicans control the Congress and the White House, you would think that our causes and ideals would be making progress. Our initiatives would be passing one after another. The liberal weasels like Ted Kennedy, Chuck Schumer, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, etc., would be reduced to a bunch of impotent piles of rubbish in the corner. But no, in the Congress the liberal good ole boys are still running the show. In the White House, the President spends and spends, creates more red tape and bureaucracy, nominates “stealth” candidates to the Supreme Court, and generally acts weak, which gives the liberals even more energy and ammunition. I hate to say that it might be possible that we, conservatives, have been weighed and found wanting. But I need to revise that. We conservatives in the country remain the same. We’re the ones upset that we have been betrayed. Let me restate that previous line: The Republicans we conservatives have empowered have been weighed and found wanting. I mean, Tom Coburn is awesome. But he cannot overrule the rest of the Senate. Anyway, I am getting on a tangent, so I need to get back to the point at hand.

When a President’s ratings go down, the quick and dirty solution to raising them is to spend money on something the country will view as important. That is what I heard the President do in his Katrina speech. I believe that the President is a man of faith, and I admire him for that. What I have a problem with, even from a man of faith, is the use fo the federal government as the means of our Christian duty. We Christians have a responsibility to be charitable, to seek the alleviation of pain and need, to respond to severe tragedies at home, in other states, and abroad. The federal government has a function too. That function is layed out in our country’s foundational documents. One function the federal government does not have is to be the great Nanny in the sky that is to sweep in and save us all from all problems, be they self-inflicted, natural disasters, or otherwise.

I have a man in my church that I love to death, and he is always a stalwart against “knee-jerk” reactions, and that shows his wisdom. Very often, in response to crisis, people need to do something. They may not know what, but they need to do something. For example, a church may have a pastor that has some misdeeds. A church may respond to those misdeeds by adopting a policy or removing some authority from the pastor’s office. The problem with that is, every other pastor to serve that church will then be constrained by that other pastor’s misdeeds and not his own actions. There are ways to respond to crises other than knee-jerk reactions. You can examine the situation adn reach better conclusions, but knee-jerk reactions make us all feel better. It feels like we have done something.

The same goes for Katrina. None of us will deny that it truly was a disaster. But does the knee-jerk response by the President fix the problems? His initiatives may make us feel better; but do they fix the problems? None of what the President has proposed woould have stopped the disaster or the badly carried out response. The only thing the President mentioned is that the feds will be looking at the disaster recovery plans for all major U.S. cities. Need I remind everyone that New Orleans and Louisiana had beautiful, written disaster plans. They have circulated widely through the blogosphere. It is entirely likely that the feds could have looked at those plans and said they passed muster. The problem is with the integrity and character of elected local and state officials. Local and State government has become so political that many of the figureheads elected to local and state positions have no skills or abilities. They are talkers only. What should happen, the non knee-jerk reaction here, is for the residents of New Orleans and the rest of Louisiana to use this as a wake-up call. Katrina should have alerted them to the stature of the persons they have empowered. The citizens who were affected should rise up and reject the leaders who have failed them so desperately, understanding that it is not the President of the United States’ job to deal with local or even state disasters (at least primarily). I mean, do people seriously want their first responders to have to fly in from Washington, DC?

As a country, we have seen a huge shift from self-reliance (under our God), community, and states rights (and responsibilities) to a culture in which we rely on the Great and Powerful Oz that is the federal government to be our savior. This is more so in some states and regions that others, but it is hugely widespread. But, if we were the have a knee-jerk reaction like this in response to what happened in Louisina, it would weaken and damage the local and state governments in the entire rest of the country. I guess what I am saying is, don’t judge us all based on how Louisiana messed it up. Hopefully, other state and local governments (including mine) will take the hint and know that if they are not effective in their positions of authority, those of us who put them there will remove them, and that the feds are itching to take over.

I am not uncharitable. I just believe the federal government is not the best-equipped entity to offer help. And the President agrees with me. He pledged in his speech that, becasue of the disaster, people wouldn’t have to navigate government bureaucracy, and they would be eligible for tax relief. Here’s a news flash, if the federal government can lessen bureaucracy in the aftermath of disaster, it should be lessened period. Root it out and eliminate it. No one should ever have to navigate bureaucracy. The same goes for tax relief. What the President is saying is that taxes stifle business and entrepreneurship. That is true all the time, not just in the wake of a hurricane. Lower the tax burden on all of America and see how the economy will grow. Or better yet, let’s all force the adoption of the Fair Tax. All in all, I guess I am saying I would like the President to be more conservative than compassionate, simply becasue he equates compassion with spending $60 Billion that is not his to spend. There’s an idea, all those who think the government should be more compassionate with my money, how about you give some of your own for a change? “Oh, but that’s why I pay taxes,” they will say. And I say, “No it’s not! Go look it up.”

And so, it is because so many people are dependent on the government these days that it has become their religion. Department heads and bureaucrats have become their apostles and disciples. In only such a terribly mis-guided system of dependence could Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden and others of thier ilk be viewd as saints. People will naturally acknowledge from whence their help comes. That’s why many used to thank God. In our modern governmental climate, they just thank the government, and that is the extend of their religion. Now do you understand why government, and especially liberals, are so hostile to God? They don’t want the competition.

What is it that bends and twists the soul of man in New Orleans such that he shoots at his rescuers, steals televisions while others drown, and then blames all and sundry for not helping enough? *** Since society “owes” them, there is no moral argument against property crimes. Once that slippery slope is reached, violent crimes follow along.

Hat tip: Human Events