[GeronL]

You people are dupes. How did you fall for such an insane idea??

This proposal is the WORST statist thing I have ever seen.

[groanup]

Any particular reason you say that?

[pigdog]

Have you read the bill? Seems one of you lefist pals really likes it - a lot.

[Man50D]

You people are dupes. How did you fall for such an insane idea??

The same way one of our founding fathers Alexander Hamilton, who was the first Secretary Of The Treasury fell for a consumption tax in his Federalist Paper #21:

"It is a signal advantage of taxes on articles of consumption, that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit; which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end proposed, that is, an extension of the revenue. When applied to this object, the saying is as just as it is witty, that, "in political arithmetic, two and two do not always make four .'' If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds. This forms a complete barrier against any material oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself a natural limitation of the power of imposing them."