[Pontiac]

So I'd go for Huckabee's national sales tax as the least regulatory as long as it's kept simple.

A consumption tax is a nice idea but it would need a constitutional amendment repealing the 16th amendment to get me to support its implementation. I also sort of suspect you need an amendment to permit the federal government to impose such a tax.

I also have a moral aversion to impressing retailers in to government service as tax collectors.

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I also have a moral aversion to impressing retailers in to government service as tax collectors.

They already are on the state and local levels. I'm not saying that's a reason to have a national sales tax. My concern is that if income tax isn't 100% removed, that we will end up being double taxed, both a sales tax and an income tax. The government can NOT be trusted in any way shape or form.

[TMSuchman]

The mechanisms are already in place to collect such monies. You already pay sales taxes on just about all your goods & services that you use, by the state & local gov.’t’s. It is nothing much more to add an additional layer of sales tax. And as far as repealing the 16th Amend. we could use public pressure to change that. What is required is an Administration committed to staying within the Constitutional Boundaries.

[MUDDOG]

I also have a moral aversion to impressing retailers in to government service as tax collectors.

Good point.

Do you have a a taxing method you think would be best? (Assuming a non-onerous level of federal expenditures!)