So you’re saying you support a Federal sales tax? Are you a Tea Partier?
As Benjamin Franklin wrote in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy in 1789 the year before his death,
“’In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
The question is who pays and what type of business environment do the taxes create? Our current tax code plays favorites for the politically connected and is chasing jobs offshore by making American business uncompetitive. So I am all for true tax reform. I seriously doubt whether the 9 9 9 plan would make it through congress in it's current form, but I would be happy if it did. Over half the population is paying no federal tax at all especially the ten million illegal immigrants living among us.
And yes I am a big supporter of the Tea Party movement. You have made a bunch of posts critical of us; why don't you come to an event and see if we are really as dumb as you think we are.
I would support the sales tax IF ACCOMPANIED by abolition of death tax under $10 million, tax on capital gains (or indexed for inflation at a minimum), tax on dividends and interest. If payroll tax is also cut, that is a huge bonus for middle class income people.
The way I look at it, the congress and president can increase our income tax, death tax, cap gain tax etc anytime they want and get away with it politically. So there is no need to have a morbid fear of them increasing the sales tax in future. It will all depend on whom the voters elect anyways.