It doesn’t matter. We can whine all we want about “the right thing to do” or “principles” but I don’t see a 9% sales tax getting through Congress. Who is going to vote for it? Besides liberals, of course.
The whole political class needs to be taken down for the deceit that is the income tax. It was never about revenue. It was and is about control.
Virginia's house speaker put it this way in 1910
"A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man's business; the eye of the Federal inspector will be in every man's counting house . . . The law will of necessity have inquisitorial features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it men will be hailed into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the tax payer. An army of Federal inspectors, spies and detectives will descend upon the state . . . Who of us who have had knowledge of the doings of the Federal officials in the Internal Revenue service can be blind to what will follow?"
I'm not thrilled about giving them another bludgeon they can use on us but if it leads to getting rid of the abomination of income tax then I'm for it.
I agree with Chodorov when he said that American freedom died in 1913. And here we are doing whatever we can to see that it is not revived by arguing about at what rate we are abused rather than how we can eliminate the abuser.