Nobody wants both taxes (except socialists).
Provided we can prevent both until the passage of HR 25, we will be MUCH safer.
HR 25 defunds the IRS, destroys existing income tax records (save those delinquent at changeover), eliminates withholding, and erases the entire income tax code.
Those things make it much, much harder to put an income tax back on.
Sure some politician could introduce a bill to RE fund the IRS. Sure, some politician could introduce a bill to force all businesses and individuals to create and save documentation wrt income and payroll taxes, and of course some politician could introduce legislation to RE implement withholding.
These things are unlikely to be sure. And if they happened, they'd have to be passed by folks expecting our votes!
In addition to the obtacles stated above, how long would it take to write and negotiate an entire income tax code?... (and WHO would propose it?)
It would be a nightmare to have both. IMO passing HR 25 makes it much less likely.
IMHO passing a national sales tax makes it much MORE likely we will end up with both. Obviously passing a national sales tax is one of the steps to ending up with both, we already have the income tax half. So your can claim that passing a national sales tax, which does not eliminate the 16th Amendment as a prior requirement for passage, will somehow make it less likely that we end up with both, is just backwards.
Schweeet!
One small problem...
Laws require 51 Senators and 218 Representatives to vote for them and then require a Presidential signature. If the President vetoes the bill, you then need 67 Senators and 291 Representatives.
The chances of this happening are, shall we say, remote?
The chances of these criminals passing a national sales tax on top of the income tax, however, are quite good.