[RobFromGa]

All the Fair Tax would do is return us to the tax system we had before the 16th Amendment was passed.

Complete poppycock.

[goldstategop]

The country did fine on excise, imposts and other indirect taxes until 1913. There was no IRS either. Its hard to imagine living in a world without an income tax. Our forebears did.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus