[RinaseaofDs]

You know what just occurred to me? I think I know how this gets done:

We get this fair tax program and we wipe out the IRS. In exchange, we also get a national health care system.

I think this is how it is going to shake out. While it is all true that the NRST will come down, the economy will expand, etc., I also think that the left will demand that some of the 'windfall' pay for socialized medicine.

The combo of free health care for life and the elimination of taxes is just too much for joe sixpack to discriminate between. Righties will want passage to wipe out the IRS, and lefties (lefty boomers especially) will want the free health care for life.

Bush is the perfect guy for this: compassionate conservative working both sides of the aisle for the betterment of the Average American.

Crackpot? Zany?

I also think that for all of this to happen, both parties have to go to town on the Bar. The ABA will oppose both measures with all their might. Torts are another form of taxation. They are going to be next.

[Taxman]

Well, that is an interesting thought, and I had not even considered it as a possibility.

HST, no deal! I am not willing to trade the income tax/IRS slavery for the slavery of socialized medicine.

I have seen that monstrosity at work, and the fools who think "FRee medicine" will work should do their homework, i.e., the Canadian and British "Free medicine" schemes are disasters.

No, thank you. And I would urge you to most strenuously oppose any and all such socialized medicine schemes.