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Since then, the federal income tax system has become so complex that it requires tens of millions of Americans to seek professional help to comply with it, not to mention the enormous, expensive federal bureaucracy required to enforce and administer the tax. The Internal Revenue Service employs more investigative agents than the FBI and the CIA combined, and with 144,000 employees, employs more people than all but the 36 largest corporations in the United States. In addition to the $8 billion needed to operate the IRS, at least $250 billion (that is $850 for every man, woman, and child in this country) must be added to account for the cost of complying with the tax code. Massive amounts of our national wealth are consumed merely by measuring, tracking, sheltering, documenting, and filing our annual income.

This is IMO the crux of the matter and bears repeating over and over, the massive non productive dollars wasted, which would still be wasted by a flat tax, but not a National Sales Tax. Imagine that money put into productive investments and the returns it would produce, a giant shot in the economy and jobs on one hand and loss of some jobs in the accounting field on the other. A change from non-productive jobs to productive jobs! Imagine the number of trees that could be saved by scrapping the current paperwork requirements.....

Imagine the number of trees that could be saved by scrapping the current paperwork requirements.....

HAHAHA This is how we sell the idea to Ralph Nader!!!

Well... his followers at least...

... well... who cares... they don't vote or pay taxes anyway... :)

You wrote:

Imagine the number of trees that could be saved by scrapping the current paperwork requirements...

I say:

This sentence should be repeated over and over again by conservatives until all Americans know it by heart!