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The problem is that as they keep raising taxes, more people either find ways to avoid paying them or they reduce their incomes. Eventually the tax revenues plummet, and they have to figure out something new. The Laffer curve is very real, and perhaps our representatives are finally starting to figure that out. The higher you raise taxes, the more incentive you give people to avoid paying. The lower you reduce taxes, the more people decide that it's easier to simply pay than to go to the trouble and take the risk of trying to avoid them. Furthermore, the income tax is pure Communism, and it is just plain wrong.

Can a society that keeps a file on every single citizen, with every dollar they have earned in the records call itself a free society? How many times has the IRS been used by politicians to intimidate and punish people? Even Governor-elect Schwarzenegger joked about using tax records to punish Jay Leno. That's the kind of joke I could live without, and that's the kind of tax system I could live without.

I have no argument with the inanity of our current tax system. The income tax is wrong, it is evil, and is it destructive to our country.

However, to add a new tax system without insuring the income tax is dead is not only inane, it's insane.

Repeal the 16th Amendment simultaneous with the inception of the 'Fair Tax', then I'll support the 'Fair Tax'. I will not be put in a position of 'trusting' the scumbags in Washington and then having the 'Fair Tax' supporters turn and say "Whoops. Guess we were wrong. Sorry you have to pay both taxes now."