[Gabz]

I didn't say where you had the drink or what you did with the cigarette so I am still within the bounds of the blood oath that we took. ;-)

ROFLMPJO!!!!!!!!! WHACPACSACPAC ....indeed!

I understand your comments differentiating the queries. At times I enjoy playing the role of "devil's advocate" in order to get someone to defend a position. That was not what I was doing today, which you have obviously surmised.

I am well aware of the disruptor questioners.....you should see them on the smoking threads..... I do like this idea...but as time goes on, I will probably be asking more questions.......not to be a pain, but to be better versed in it as I am just new to the discussion.

[Babu]

The reason this tax proposal is so VERY DANGEROUS is that if the Income Tax were actually dumped in favor of this National Sales Tax, then something would come along sometime--in 5, 10 , 20, whatever years, but it would come, like a war, or a depression, and the politicians would say, "Geez, we just hate to bring this up, but we need a teenie weenie little income tax, only maybe 2%, what can that hurt? ... just temporarily, until we get through this little _____ crisis (war, depression, ... , fill in the blank).

Then we never ever get rid of it, they just add to it in the next "crisis". Then we have the National Sales Tax, AND the Income Tax along with all the other myriad of taxes and hidden taxes and fees we are burdened with.

Don't go there. Don't let this Camel's Nose in the Tent. This is really a very very BAD idea, because what I have described is exactly what would happen, without a scintilla of a doubt. There is a tax on all our phone bills added in 1800 something for a war. I think it's still there. I rest my case.

Let's wrestle with the devil we have in the ring. Don't let a second devil in the ring. If you do, the first devil will sneak back in the ring after a generation when the old guard has relaxed or passed on and memories have faded.