Ace has already done a piece on this. Good work Ace, and thanks for the Ellmers plug!
This charge reminds me of a similar charge by Carter Wrenn/ Bernie Reeves against Bill Randall’s support of the Fair Tax during the primaries. The Reeves’ attack was bit more nuanced but was based on the same chosen ignorance of the Fair Tax as Etheridge’s. They both feigned ignorance in an effort to make an unfair and untrue political attack on an opponent. Bernie Reeves lost in the run off.
The Fair Tax calls for replacing the income tax with a 23% national sales tax thus eliminating the IRS as we know it. The sales tax by nature would hit even the lowest wage earners but there would be a prebate based on what is considered poverty level and the poor would be reimbursed upfront each month for the 23% they would pay at time of purchasing goods.
Whether born of ignorance or more likely by design, Etheridge’s charge that Renee Ellmers wants to raise our taxes by 23% is false . Whether on the streets of DC accosting college students or campaigning against Renee Ellmers, Bob Etherige is a thug and a liar.
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