[ziravan]

You’ll find even leftists supporting this. They’ll take a massive reduction in taxes in order to get this through.

Not a chance. They will perceive a consumption tax to be exactly what it is: the least progressive and most transparent tax available to them. Fair taxation scares the crap out of liberals. Why on Earth do you think they go about spouting that 3% of the population paying 60% of taxes is unfair to the 97% that don't rape them for more?

The left will never support a transparent tax that actually DOES ensure that everybody pays their fair share. A Fair Tax based on consumption and not production is the ideal Republican tax.

[Pessimist]

“Not a chance.”

They seem to swallow it in Europe Ok.

[ncpatriot]

Income tax is immoral - period

[fightinJAG]

Libs also do not want We The People to have more power over how much we send in to the FedGov — and that’s exactly what a plan such as 999 does.

It empowers us to pay less in taxes because we control our discretionary consumer spending.

Libs hate that if we all got mad about what the FedGov was doing we could go on a consumer strike and make a dent in FedGov revenues, such that FedGov may even have to start listening.

The fact is that the 999 plan has deep roots in the types of massive tax reform (e.g., Fair and Flat taxes) that conservatives have been pushing for decades.

Should we keep on massaging 999 to make it the best possible reform? Yes. But yapping against it from the get-go seems incredibly short-sighted: as conservatives, we have been waiting for someone to throw out the tax code, get rid of the IRS, and make everyone a stakeholder for decades!

These are all things 999 are intended to accomplish.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

We’ll see.