[Zon]

.....but I believe you must cut income taxes at the same time you introduce the tax......

.The Bill being proposed eliminates the federal income tax and the IRS. That's way more than cutting.

[littlelilac]

no income taxes - that would be beautiful - (esp for a Canadian paying about 40 per cent overall income tax rate)

- the only thing I have heard, (and I am clearly not as knowledgable on this topic as you) is the argument that a sales tax would be a more volatile revenue base and that a combination of a low flat income tax and a sale tax would hedge that bet......or perhaps to start off with......