Your bias is showing. BTW, what were the results of the poll - what with it being so far out of the meainstream? DOH!
The mentality of those pushing this idea here on Free Republic seems to be that if the number of threads keeps increasing every month, passage of this into Law moves closer.
Why do you think that the number of FR threads has anything to do with passage of a bill in the US Congress?!
In reality, no progress has been made.
LOL. You don't know much about it, do you?
How about coming up with something to debate? Can you? Or are you ignorant to the extent that you just name call and denigrate with no positions whatsoever? Sounds like a 5 yr old.
When's the committee hearing and vote scheduled?
As for my "bias" -- if you want to call knowledge of Finance and Economics a bias, so be it. I also have a bias against radical economic and political "solutions" that would cause mass chaos.
I find the idea of placing this national policy question on a local ballot to be absolutely hilarious. It's a pure moonbat play. If this idea had a Helen Thomas chance in a College Frat House then efforts would be spent in the legislative process, not this kind of fringe publicity.
Populism and tax policy don't mix. The consequences of even minor errors in tax law can be devastating to individuals and institutions. An abrupt shift to a consumption tax would sharply lower aggregate demand overnight. The people calculating increases in GDP from this idea have got the magnitude about right -- it's just the direction that is 180 degrees inaccurate.