[Final Authority]

The bill is like a wet dream, it seems great until one learns of the reality. Bills are bills. It is not law. The bill itself cannot be the mechanism to repeal any Constitutional amendment and until there is a impediment to ever reinstating the income tax the bill is BS. BTW, if you are so prescient of the outcome you must go to a OTB and bet the next race.

[Principled]

The bill itself cannot be the mechanism to repeal any Constitutional amendment

Well duh.

[pigdog]

I sort of had the idea that bills were very necesary precursors to laws but then I haven't saved any Gen X'ers of Boomers lately. How is it again that those laws come into being???

Though I don't bet (so I'll have to pass on your suggestion to gamble) I DO like sure things - and I think the FairTax is a sure thing to become law ... or as near so as can be obtained in bill form.

Certainly a Constitutional amendment is quite different than a tax bill and the two cannot be combined, but the FairTax bill calls for repeal of the 16th. In any event, the IRS and the income tax are goners I think. Why is it you oppose that?