Wow. I'm amazed how timeless the arguments in favor of the NRST are...and by how little your stubborn refusal to be truthful about this proposal has changed.
"You're still ducking the question, but at least you partially responded to it by admitting that an income tax was not fair.
The NRST (your consumption tax) is fair since it does, in fact, tax a person's ability to pay. That is exactly what is being taxed - and only to the extent that the person is voluntarily "paying" to purchase something. It is generally a conscious choice under the control of that individual and indicates that the person believes he has the ability to pay for (and thereby pay taxes on) that particular thing. If he hasn't the ability to pay he won't buy. It's up to him and since he is taxed at the same rate as everyone else it is the epitome of fairness, but any choice made to save or invest (thereby helping increase the capital pool to create jobs for others) is not taxed.
OTOH, with your net worth tax even though the rate may be the same, what is being taxed is the very economic success that has helped to make this country great - you are penalizing success. There is nothing fair about that and the present income tax system does, basically, the same thing.
Since you seem unable to bring yourself to admit openly that the income tax system is unfair, inefficient, and in need of being abolished as any part of the tax law of this country, I'll desist (at present) from asking you again. But, in the future should you continue to post in this vein I'll return to question you about it again.
It still, however, perplexes me as to who it is you think bears the economic incidence of tariffs. Perhaps you should read "Economics In One Lesson", the Henry Hazlitt classic, to find out.
Little Willie is "The Worst President In American History".
74 Posted on 03/21/2000 08:52:50 PST by pigdog"
Boy, that sure brings back memories!
Ol' pigdong used to post that tripe all the time
but I think he got downsized and laid-off when they had some budget cutbacks at NRST shill headquarters a couple years ago...
It's really sad. He used to come up with some truly idiotic statements:
"A home is NOT an investment, W/G, but merely a place to live."
Posted on 03/26/2001 16:27:50 PST by pigdog