Why the Republican Tax Plan is Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs

Too often in America, political parties are accused of having no new ideas, and too often that’s true. So when a political party does come forward with a genuinely game-changing initiative, they deserve our respect and appreciation for contributing meaningfully to the debate, regardless of the merits of their suggestion.

The Republican Party in the US House has come forward with, and will soon be voting on such an idea. It’s called the “Fair Tax”. So let’s have a moment of silence in honor of their efforts. Since you are probably already silently reading this article, that shouldn’t be that hard.

Now that your moment of silence has ended, silently, for most of you, we must now move on to considering just how truly bat-shit crazy this idea is.

First the name: The “Fair Tax” is “fair” in the way that pickles are dinosaurs, in other words, it has absolutely no seeming relationship at all to the way the word is usually defined. It would be like calling Lebron James the “Short Guy”. I suppose that could be appropriate depending on who else is part of the conversation. And the “Fair Tax” could be fair to lower income people compared to…for example… feeding them to hyenas. And given some of the members of the Republican congressional caucus, It’s not entirely clear that the hyena thing is off the table.