[xrp]

When the hell are we going to get some statesmen back in the government? Politicians just don't cut it...never have, never will.

I'm normally opposed to human cloning, but in this case, I think we should clone Thomas Jefferson so maybe he can bring our country back from the brink.

Either that or someone needs to grow some nerve and switch us from the horribly corrupted and impossible to understand income tax code to something incredibly simple such as a national sales tax. The USA wouldn't need the IRS then. A sales tax collects itself!

[patton]

TJ, while certainly to be commended for his role is helping to found our republic, was a financial train wreck. As president, he let the fleet rot at the warves, and then declared war on the world's mightiest naval power, the Brits.

In his personal life, he went broke twice, got bailed out by the Government once, and had Monticello knocked down and rebuilt because it had bad feng shuie, or some such.

[DennisR]

An NRST will also breath gargantuan breaths of life into the black market. The solution is a 10% flat rate tax on income, everyone pays, no deductions for anything. That is the only way government will not be able to tweak things in its favor.