For more information about how a national sales tax would work, visit http://www.fairtax.org/
If this is a trial balloon from members of the administration, using Hastert as a surrogate, I have only one thing to say to President Bush-
BRING IT ON!!
National Sales or flat tax I could live with. Literally.
If G.W. truly committed to this it COULD pass. It would be a fight but he has a shot. He'd need to really drive it home on the stump, though, or it would move nowhere. Just as he did when he fought for the tax cuts.
Thanks for the link.