[Willie Green]

...the movement for consumption-based taxation has been hijacked by a group of extremists whose principal interest is abolishing the Internal Revenue Service.²¹ They believe that if virtually all federal taxes are abolished and replaced with a retail sales tax like those in the states, then the states can simply collect the federal government's revenue for it, thereby allowing for abolition of the IRS...

²¹ The Church of Scientology originated this legislation as part of a campaign against the IRS because it refused for many years to allow gifts to the church to be deducted as legitimate charitable contributions, on the grounds that it was not a true church. The IRS eventually relented. See Davis (1997) and Starobin (1995) for discussions of the Church of Scientology's role in the sales tax campaign.

Davis, Bob. 1997. "CATS Out of the Bag." World, 12:9 (May 31/June 7).
Starobin, Paul. 1995. "No Returns." National Journal (March 18): 666-671.

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Writing science fiction for about a penny a word is no way to make a living. If you really want to make a million, the quickest way is to start your own religion.

~ L. Ron Hubbard

[kevkrom]

I'm sorry... your point is what? That all of these economists are Scientologists? And your reference for that is?

Or are you simply reduced to resorting to irrelevant and off-topic ad hominem attacks against the NRST?

[Mojave]

Writing science fiction for about a penny a word is no way to make a living. If you really want to make a million, the quickest way is to start your own religion. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Starting out in pulp fiction during the '30s, Hubbard became legendary for a technique later used by Jack Kerouac in composing On the Road: He would feed a roll of butcher paper into his typewriter, then just crank out yarns-by-the-yard. He was prolific. At a penny a word, he had to be.

His spirit lives on in the "Fair Tax" spammers.