CAVUTO REPORTS THAT BUSH CONSIDERING SCRAPPING THE IRS CODE!!!

Fox News Channel | November 6, 2002 | n/a

[Tree of Liberty]

Neil Cavuto just interviewed Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., the director of the OMB, and Neil let it be known that he's hearing rumblings that Pres. Bush is considering a total re-write of the tax code and that SecTreas O'Neill is strongly pushing a national retail sales tax!

[Timocrat]

Bush is considering a total re-write of the tax code and that SecTreas O'Neill is strongly pushing a national retail sales tax!

If this happens Bush can forget retiring to Crawford he'll be President for life.

[agitator]

Bend over, here it comes again. A "national retail sales tax" is not constitutional, neither is a "flat tax." Neither is the fiat currency system that we currently "enjoy" which is the enabler of all of the social welfare programs and legions of bureaucrats ruining this country. People need to study history a little more. I'll crawl back under my bridge now.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Talk about making a mark on history!

[Damocles]

Excellent!

 

[Destructor]

What a great day that would be for America! The day we get the IRS off of our collective backs- for good!!

[Tennessean4Bush]

No way. You would have to own 67 Senate seats and 280 House seats to pull this off. And even then it would be hard as bricks to pull off. No way legislators abdicate the power the tax code gives them. I do not care what kind of mandate they think they have.

[dittomom]

SCRAPPING THE TAX CODE!!! Now, that has a nice ring to it!!!

[dirtboy]

That would be the biggest move ever. Hopefully the numbers work. You would have to replace the $$$ from somewhere. That is great b/c it would tax people fairly, AND cut down govt.

My greatest concern? A NRST will be implemented, but they'll keep at least part of the income tax. And then the income tax will slowly creep back up. And we'll have the worst of BOTH worlds.

We're going to have to watch this sucker like a hawk.

[PatrioticAmerican]

CHIEF Bump!

[Freedom2specul8]

Tax Ping!

[mlo]

What makes you think they aren't constitutional?

[The Vast Right Wing]

I'm still dreaming right?

[aristeides]

One of the few accomplishments of the Congress the last time Republicans controlled the presidency and both Houses of Congress was the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. I'm no admirer of that code, but the fact that that Republican administration chose to work on it shows where Republican administrations place their priorities.

By the way, ditch the Internal Revenue Code and you also ditch an objectionable feature of that Code of 1954 that LBJ took pains to include in it: the provision denying religious organizations a tax exemption if they engage in political activity.

[Unknown Freeper]

Sure, but would you want to be the congresscritter who had to go back home and tell your people you voted no?

[phasma proeliator]

ping

[Tree of Liberty]

I've got welts all over my body from pinching myself.

[chasio649]

He would have my vote!!

[BobFromNJ]

Bumperino!

[aristeides]

Imagine the politics if the Dems choose to filibuster this!

[Mr. Thorne]

Well, holy BLEEP!

Wouldn't it be cool, tho...

= D