[EternalVigilance]

You're obsessed with this, and have chosen to remain blind to what is going on elsewhere, and how all revenue legislation is 'implemented' now. Agencies will enact implementing proceedures and regulations, just as the IRS does now. Stop dreaming, and get informed.

I have to wonder if you've even read the bill, or understand at all what it is that the vast bulk of tax reformers support.

This 'consumption tax' is more than a consumption tax.

What, pray tell, do you mean by that?

I'm starting to wonder if you're not more than a bit paranoid.

I'm not going to let tin-foil fears about what might happen down the road, things that aren't even in the proposed legislation, to stop me from trying to end this communist-inspired system we have now.

[Always Right]

This 'consumption tax' is more than a consumption tax.

What, pray tell, do you mean by that?

A tax on services is a tax on labor.

[editor-surveyor]

"I'm not going to let tin-foil fears about what might happen down the road, things that aren't even in the proposed legislation, to stop me from trying to end this communist-inspired system we have now."

Tinfoil? get real; the current maze of the taxcode wasn't in the legislation either, it was written by IRS staff and foisted upon us as 'implementation' of the act that congress passed. The same will happen with any other act that congress passes. I agree that the current mess was 'communist inspired' but that isn't a reason to stick our necks in a bigger noose. Any sales tax (or VAT) will have to be permanently capped to be acceptable, otherwise it must be recognized as the foot in the door that it is.