[nopardons]

You can't implement your "plan" without utterly destroying this country.And the way you've laid it out,is not only confused,but contradicts what you claim to want.

The VAT would be far worse than today's income tax;which I'm also against and what it changed to a flat tax.

Yes,in the late 1940s and the 1950s,America manufactured far more goods than it does today; however,we were NOT the world's supplier! We were the world's LENDER.And Americans WERE buying many cheap goods from Japan back then;not to mention some very expensive stuff from Italy and France and England.

[sevry]

utterly destroying this country

So why wasn't the nation destroyed prior to imposition of the personal income tax? Why didn't the nation flounder prior to the advent of FDR-sized government, benefits and regulations?