[international american]

"The author prefers things like they are. I do not share that mindset."

My one small fear is that the gubment will make it worse. They are not known for fixing things that don't work.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I'll take risk over what we have. DO SOMETHING EVEN IF IT'S WRONG!

[OHelix]

You might like to see the following code from the FairTax bill and see if you think it's intent is to improve or not:

`SECTION 1. PRINCIPLES OF INTERPRETATION.

`(a) IN GENERAL- Any court, the Secretary, and any sales tax administering authority shall consider the purposes of this subtitle (as set forth in subsection (b)) as the primary aid in statutory construction.

`(b) PURPOSES- The purposes of this subtitle are as follows:

`(1) To raise revenue needed by the Federal Government in a manner consistent with the other purposes of this subtitle.

`(2) To tax all consumption of goods and services in the United States once, without exception, but only once.

`(3) To prevent double, multiple, or cascading taxation.

`(4) To simplify the tax law and reduce the administration costs of, and the costs of compliance with, the tax law.

`(5) To provide for the administration of the tax law in a manner that respects privacy, due process, individual rights when interacting with the government, the presumption of innocence in criminal proceedings, and the presumption of lawful behavior in civil proceedings.

`(6) To increase the role of State governments in Federal tax administration because of State government expertise in sales tax administration.

`(7) To enhance generally cooperation and coordination among State tax administrators; and to enhance cooperation and coordination among Federal and State tax administrators, consistent with the principle of intergovernmental tax immunity.

From http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:H.R.25: