Reason number 983219031890743047321 to replace the current income tax with a national retail sales tax.
Starting at the top, is not going to accomplish the goal. I would suggest that until you have a state legislature that believes we are on the fast track to financial disaster, and is willing to place itself and the state on the pinnacle of prominence by refusing federal black mail in the matter of paying X to receive Y from the federal benefactor, we are going to remain as slaves to our masters the Federal Government.
...and may I suggest it is going to probably get worse before it gets better, although I have to give some credit for the latest budget desires and suggestions, of the Republican US Congress. Desires and suggestions, that don’t have a chance of making it through the “democratically” controlled SENATE.
It appears the democrat party has a complete disconnect with the laws of economics, and is going to depend on the ignorance of the American people to continue the insanity that describes the actions of the Federal Government vis a vis the slaves of the fifty seven states of the United States of America.