The flat tax still allows a sales tax to be added to it. No flat tax proposal indicates even a desire to prohibit the addition of a sales tax at a later date.
However, the nrst imposes some serious obstacles to adding an income tax to it.
First, the entire income tax is erased, gone. At the moment nrst HR 25 becomes law, the income tax ceases to exist.
Also, all existing income tax records are destroyed save those of delinquent taxpayers at changeover.
To re-impose an income tax, some politician would have to propose it (death wish), politicians and lobbyists would have to write, negotiate, rewrite, renegotiate an entire income tax code. THen, some politicians would have to vote for and pass it....this all after the individual American has been receiving a paycheck with no federal deductions and no individual tax filing.
This would take a relatively long time - long enough to pass the amendment repealing the 16th and making the taxation of any kind of income unconstitutional. If there is no income tax, why oppose repealing the 16th?
If you're worried about both taxes being imposed, then passing HR 25 will be a priority to you.
11 posted on 01/11/2006 3:43:04 PM EST by Principled
I'm sorry, but I can't agree. Unless the 16th Amendment is repealed there is still nothing to legally stop Congress from re-imposing an income tax sometime in the future.