[Fledermaus]

Bad idea. If you think the income tax code is long and complex, just wait until politicians get a hold of a national sales tax code!

Don't believe me? Just look at the one in your state if you have a sales tax. The code is so full of meddling and special amendments it's not funny.

Does anyone really want Congress to decide what can and cannot be taxed as a product? Do you even understand the questions that would arise?

Do you tax food? Medicine? Women's monthly hygiene products? Hair care products for blacks?

All of those and even thousands more would be in play for changes in the rate, what should or not should be taxed, etc.

Then the Dems would want a "progressive rate" on "luxury items" and charge more sales tax for buying a BMW over a simple Chevy.

Believe me, you don't want 435 members of Congress making policy on this. It would make the income tax code look lame in comparison.

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Believe me, you don't want 435 members of Congress making policy on this. It would make the income tax code look lame in comparison.

Yes, but it would be much fairer for decades. When it gets too bad we replace it with a simpler flat income tax...

[ancient_geezer]

If you think the income tax code is long and complex, just wait until politicians get a hold of a national sales tax code!

Try reading the legislation before hyperventilatiing.

All goods and services are taxed at a single rate, no exceptions.

H.R.25, S.1493
A bill to promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national retail sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.

Refer: http://www.fairtax.org & http://www.salestax.org

 

Believe me, you don't want 435 members of Congress making policy on this. It would make the income tax code look lame in comparison.

The NRST is enacted with single rate and all retail products taxed.

Any change to exempt items increases the rate for everyone (not very popular among voters and added complexity will be fought by business tooth and nail), or with no change in rate gives everyone a taxbreak.

Unlike the sliding scales of today based on income, there can be no practical means to implement such scale as regards retail sales taxes.

Thomas Hobbes from Leviathan

• It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, as roughly measured by their consumption, than to tax them on what they produce for the economy, as roughly measured by their income.

I can live with that.

 

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What I can't abide by is the government's continued intrusions into my family fincancial privacy, nor the continued legal jeopardies of the income tax system as lovingly administered by the IRS.

That is what the NRST, with repeal of all income and payroll taxes mean in the ultimate analysis.

 

[Montesquieu wrote in Spirit of the Laws, XIII,c.14:]

• "A capitation is more natural to slavery; a duty on merchandise is more natural to liberty, by reason it has not so direct a relation to the person."
  --Thomas Jefferson: copied into his Commonplace Book.

Slavery under the minions of Congress, (i.e IRS), or the chance to live as we should in a free society.

Patrick Henry, Virginia Ratifying Convention June 12, 1788:

• "the oppression arising from taxation, is not from the amount but, from the mode -- a thorough acquaintance with the condition of the people, is necessary to a just distribution of taxes. The whole wisdom of the science of Government, with respect to taxation, consists in selecting the mode of collection which will best accommodate to the convenience of the people."

[Veracious Poet]

Perhaps, but at least we could embargo the tax by holding back on purchases...you wanna see pandering politicos squirm? ;-)