Bill Text: GA HR821 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

Georgia House Resolution 821 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: United States Congress; adopt Fair Tax Act; urge

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 6)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-04-01 - House Second Readers [HR821 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2009-HR821-Introduced.html

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House Resolution 821

By: Representative Cox of the 102nd

A RESOLUTION

Urging the United States Congress to adopt the Fair Tax Act; and for other purposes.

WHEREAS, currently pending before the United States Congress, H.R. 25, the Fair Tax Act, abolishes all federal, personal, and corporate income taxes and gift, estate, capital gains, alternative minimum, Social Security, medicare, and self-employment taxes and replaces them with one simple, visible, federal retail sales tax administered primarily by existing state sales tax authorities; and

WHEREAS, the Fair Tax Act replaces federal income and payroll taxes with a progressive national retail sales tax, ensuring no American pays federal taxes on spending up to the poverty level, and repeals the Sixteenth Amendment; and

WHEREAS, during this economic crisis, the Fair Tax Act would relieve citizens from the burden of the current taxing structure, allowing citizens to be equally taxed on what they purchase, not on what they earn; and

WHEREAS, the Fair Tax Act enables workers to keep their entire paychecks and permits retirees to keep their entire pensions, dramatically lowers the tax rates for low-income and middle-income families, and makes taxes visible through abolishing hidden income and payroll taxes in consumer prices; and

WHEREAS, if passed, the Fair Tax Act would not only encourage but allow for families to save more for home ownership, education, and retirement; would refund in advance the tax on purchases of basic necessities; and would allow American products to compete fairly; and

WHEREAS, the Fair Tax Act brings transparency and accountability to tax policy, acts to ensure Social Security and medicare funding, closes all current tax loopholes, brings fairness to taxation, abolishes the Internal Revenue Service, relieves citizens from a penalizing tax system, and renews the American dream as we continue to be competitive over the next century.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that the members of this body urge the United States Congress to adopt the Fair Tax Act.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized and directed to transmit appropriate copies of this resolution to each member of the Georgia congressional delegation.