I tbink it's because pols know voters wouldn't stand for it.
THis resistance evidenced by 95 years of inaction will be increased. Once we see what it's like without the income tax, who would ever propose it? (libs) Who would support it? (some libs in safed districts). Who would vote to pass it?
THis is of course AFTER who knows how many years to renegotiate an income tax code. Katie bar the door! Everyone will want their own pet tax and/or tax break.
I digress.
Point being that after 95 years there has been sufficient resistance to prevent a sales tax on top. Increase the resistance by showing us what it's like without it.
I'd still like to see them tied - but I fear it would prevent the nrst from seeing the light of day.
If you think we'll end up with both (after 95 years of not), then by all means tell your rep. That's what it's about.
Dear Principled,
"What is your explanation as to why after 95 years we haven't had an nrst on top of our income tax?"
Because the genius of the American system is that it does not do easily what it has never been done before. That is to say, in the normal gridlock that the Founders built into our constitutional system, it's difficult to do a new thing.
However, once a thing is done (like imposing an income tax), it's easy to do again.
Thus, once an NRST is in place, it won't be too tough to re-impose an income tax on an "emergency basis" on the "rich only," because, well, it's been done before.
And before long, we'll have the worst of it all.
Thus, it's really necessary, BEFORE we let the genie of a national sales tax out of the bottle, to put a stake through the vampire of the income tax (how's that for a mixed metaphor? ;-) ).
"Once we see what it's like without the income tax, who would ever propose it?"
Folks who want more money for the government to spend. Like most of the folks in Congress. Unfortunately, even with Republican majorities in both houses of Congress, the folks who want to spend more, more, more are in the majority, not the minority.
"Point being that after 95 years there has been sufficient resistance to prevent a sales tax on top."
I think that once Congress passes an NRST, the new thing will have been done - imposing the NRST. That's the hard thing. The easy thing will be to bring back the income tax, especially on an "emergency basis" taxing "only the rich."
"...then by all means tell your rep."
My representative is Ben Cardin of Maryland. The last thing I want to do is give him ideas about another tax that Congress could pass.
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