[Final Authority]

I think it humorous that the discussion here is that the new sales tax will be in exclusion to the income tax. Even Greenspan said that there will be both as the elimination of the income tax is "problematic" to use his words.

Those who are shilling for the so-called fairtax is doing the work of the socialists in the name of "fairness", (can anyone here on this thread produce the legal definition of "fairness"). The world socialists have been supporting the idea of a BIG, or a Basic Income Guarantee for some time now and they are convinced that the NRST idea with a personal rebate is just the vehicle to set the social agenda politically. They envision the rebates being legislatively tinkered with to advance the payments for those who are deemed poor and eliminate rebates for those who are deemed rich, in the name of "fairness" and progressivity, of course. With the IRS still in place because the income tax will not be abandoned the government will have all of the personal financial info to carry out such a scenario.

The government will never abandon the income tax because the liberals won't let it happen because how else would one tax an American living on foreign soil, or tax old wealth (death taxes) or tax so-called unearned income, or tax windfalls like a signing bonus or the like?

The problem here is we will have both a sales and income tax if the "fairness" folks have their way and we will all suffer for their zealotry.

[Petronski]

I think it humorous that the discussion here is that the new sales tax will be in exclusion to the income tax.

I think it is ignorant and/or wildly naive to suggest that the income tax will go away. It will never go away without repeal of the 16th amendment.

I'm with you.

[phil_will1]

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I wonder why so many of the guardians of the status quo have to display their egos so brazenly?

Better get with the program, Louie and Willie. LOL

[phil_will1]

"The government will never abandon the income tax because the liberals won't let it happen because how else would one tax an American living on foreign soil, or tax old wealth (death taxes) or tax so-called unearned income, or tax windfalls like a signing bonus or the like?"

That isn't what the FairTax is about, so that is a strawman argument.

Here is what Herman Cain had to say about the possibility of combining a sales tax with an income tax.

Here it is in Real Video format: http://www.clubforgrowth.org/video/050304-foxnews.ram

And the Windows Media version: http://www.clubforgrowth.org/video/050304-foxnews.wmv