[Prime Choice]

The Fair Tax/HR-25/National Retail Sales Tax is the only way to go because it abolishes the IRS.

You think the sales taxes are just going to add themselves up? You think an infrastructure on par with the IRS isn't going to be created to track those sales taxes? You're fooling yourself.

[SolarisRocks]

It will also require the tracking of every purchase made on the US portions of the internet.

Something to think about.

[Paul C. Jesup]

You think the sales taxes are just going to add themselves up? You think an infrastructure on par with the IRS isn't going to be created to track those sales taxes? You're fooling yourself.

Read up on something before commenting on it. Fair Tax uses a State's own retail sales tax collection organization in place at that State to collect the taxes. Plus states in the bill itself, HR-25, that is abolishes the IRS.

[Sprite518]

Well tell me how the government would track people's purchases?


BTW, you have plenty of people who do not pay in the current tax code. For instance, most of the tax burden is on the upper 50%... Compound that with money kept off shore which is estimated to be around 12 Trillion dollars, illegal immigrants that do not pay, the drug war, the mafia, etc......

[phil_will1]

"You think an infrastructure on par with the IRS isn't going to be created to track those sales taxes?"

Yes, that is exactly what I think. WIth a simplification of more than 98% in the system being audited, as well as a huge reduction in the number of points of collection and enforcement, whatever level of resources that will be committed to enforcement will be much more effective with a much streamlined system.