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A number of the second-tier Republican presidential candidates have made supportive comments about a national sales tax; the idea is the centerpiece of Huckabee's campaign.(The Week)(Brief article)
A number of the second-tier Republican presidential candidates have made supportive comments about a national sales tax; the idea is the centerpiece of Huckabee's campaign. But none of the top-tier candidates is touching the issue--and for very good reasons. If the Republican nominee adopted the issue, he would quickly find that he was talking about very little else in the fall of 2008. There are too many possible lines of attack, and it would take too long to explain the issues. Voters understandably distrust politicians who say that they are going to impose a new tax on them but that they will come out ahead. If, against very steep odds, the sales tax became law, what would it accomplish? A 30 percent retail-sales tax--which is what proponents ...
- Program aims to level sales tax playing field.
- Magazine article from: Network World Evans, James October 2, 2000 700+ words
...called the Streamlined Sales Tax Project, will seek...opposed any Internet sales tax efforts, expressing...the 'Net economy. Presidential candidates George W. Bush and...the possibility of sales tax on the 'Net. Online...
- NEA to push school funding: The teachers union is meeting in Philadelphia....
- Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) July 1, 2007 700+ words
...conversation" with the presidential candidates about funding inequities...said all the Republican presidential candidates had been invited, but only...accepted. Huckabee approved a sales-tax increase that greatly increased...
- CAN THE SALES TAX SURVIVE CYBERSPACE?
- Magazine article from: State Legislatures Mackey, Scott December 1, 1999 700+ words
...future of his state's sales tax. "A moving van pulled...viability of the state sales tax. * Members of Congress...year? Where do the presidential candidates stand? Will governors...burdens imposed by the sales tax? Ultimately, the...
- The Other Face of E-Commerce: Can the Sales Tax Survive Cyberspace?
- Magazine article from: Government Finance Review Mackey, Scott February 1, 2000 700+ words
...future of his state's sales tax. "A moving van pulled...viability of the state sales tax; * members of Congress...year? Where do the presidential candidates stand? Will governors...burdens imposed by the sales tax? Ultimately, the...
- Looking ahead to fall election: where presidential candidates stand on business...
- Magazine article from: Do-It-Yourself Retailing October 1, 2004 700+ words
...look at where the two presidential candidates--Republican incumbent...business taxes, a national sales tax and health care. Business...previous levels. National sales tax--The suggestion of a national sales tax has worked its way into...
- On to ornery New Hampshire. (American presidential candidates)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) February 13, 1988 700+ words
...and vote, usually, for Republican presidential candidates. There the resemblance ends. New...neither a tax on earned income nor a sales tax: its income comes from "sin" taxes...who breathes the words income tax or sales tax ever faces anything but electoral disaster...
- Presidential candidates focus on issues.
- News wire article from: United Press International January 13, 2000 700+ words
...WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (UPI) The leading Republican presidential candidates have decided that tax cuts are the way to the voter...as the governor of Texas to raise the state's sales tax. The other GOP hopefuls appear to be more interested...
- Presidential candidates face off with different tax plans.
- Magazine article from: Accounting Today Russell, Roger September 20, 2004 700+ words
The presidential candidates' tax plans are generating more discussion than usual, even for...President Bush's recent off-the-cuff musings about a national sales tax were immediately slammed by Kerry as amounting to "one of the...
