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ECM: but will all other taxes be abolished?
templar: No, it will be passed (assuming it is passed someday) as an additional tax

chainsaw: Another tax on the backs of the poor

TLI: To not abolish the other taxes is to simply INCREASE Taxes

Read the bill,

John Linder in the House & Saxby Chambliss Senate, offer a comprehensive bill to kill all income and payroll taxes outright, and provide a IRS free replacement in the form of a pure consumption tax:

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

And will be pulled from consideration by sponsor, if amended to do anything other than stated. It is intended to repeal the all federal income, payroll and gift/estate taxes and proposes the express prohibition of all taxes on income by constitutional amendment.

It's sister bill is is written in amendment for to accomplish the language laid out in HR25

H.J.RES.61
Title: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to abolish the Federal income tax.
Sponsor: Rep Johnson, Sam [TX-3] (introduced 6/24/2003) Cosponsors: 5
Latest Major Action: 9/4/2003 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.

Ain't gonna happen the way the bills are written. Amendments will be added, compromises made (think of the recent gun manufacturers liability bill). My guess is that, if it passes at all (which I doubt since I hear no talk of it anywhere on the streets or radio), it will be passed in a manner that phases it in with the income tax (NOT SS), intended to be phased out (allegedly as a transition period). This will never quite happen since the income tax serves too many purposes other than revenue (intimidation & control, of the people, surveillance of Americans financial activities to identify potential political threats to the establishment, etc.). It will end up as another revenue stream, and extended control of small business (a growing area), not a removal of the IRS. Wait and see, but I am fairly confident of my predictions.

The only way to get rid of the current system is a constitutional amendment, and that is unlikely with the coming financial chaos.