[DugwayDuke]

"Let me see if I understand you. An NRST collected by retailers tacking on 30% onto everyone's goodies, is somehow to be equated with a 2% tax that would only hit the richest two percent."

I wasn't equating tax rates. I was pointing out that what starts out small and simple may not remain that way. The NRST, even if enacted as proposed, will change just as the original income tax changed. The solution is not to change the way of taxation but to reduce the size of government.

"ROTFLMAO, half the voting population pays no income tax, and has no reason to even file a tax return much less write a check to the treasury. Many of them infact receive money from the treasury via the EITC."

They all pay Social Security.

[ancient_geezer]

The solution is not to change the way of taxation but to reduce the size of government.

 

Patrick Henry, Virginia Ratifying Convention June 12, 1788:

• "the oppression arising from taxation, is not from the amount but, from the mode -- a thorough acquaintance with the condition of the people, is necessary to a just distribution of taxes. The whole wisdom of the science of Government, with respect to taxation, consists in selecting the mode of collection which will best accommodate to the convenience of the people."

 

TAXES

 

100years of history under income taxes makes it clear that we will not get there (smaller government) from here (the income tax).

 

They all pay Social Security.

And believe it to be an employer shared contribution to a retirement fund.

a free people that pays slave taxes to its government is willingly training itself for bondage.
---Alan Keyes 199

[phil_will1]

"They all pay Social Security."

Are you proposing that Social Security taxes no longer be withheld, also?