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What will happen is that the President and the leadership in Congress will see the idea of a NRST as the method which they can augment the "take" of our property by phasing in, say, a 3% sales tax and still keep the income tax. Of course they will say that over time the income tax rate will decrease and the sales tax rates will increase but the IRS and the income tax will never go away because the liberals won't let them because it is the means to keep progressivity and the means to soak the "rich".

All sorts of programs will be identified for this tax to be ear-marked for such as propping up the IR in hospitals across the nation. Essentially, this tax pays for all of the criminal aliens health care. Or, it will be ear-marked for job training for jobs we no longer need or have because of our free and fair trade policies. But we will need nurses and other allied health care workers to keep all of the criminal aliens healthy so they can work the fields, clean our swimming pools, and mow our golf courses.

I love the FairTaxers, they are doing exactly what the government leadership needs, that is, they are designing a illusion or trick play to make us think the outcome will be different from reality.

It's no trick - and no illusion. The FairTax bill is designed to be revenue neutral in its present form and ALSO abolished the Income tax (and many others) along with the IRS.

In addition it calls for repealing the 16th amendment (but cannot do so directly within the bill since a constitutional amendment is legislatively a different breed of cat than a tax bill).

The tax bill is not a spending bill and identifies no such requirements within the bill. It does, however, offer a mechanism for us to make people aware of how much government costs on each and every receipt. That should help irate taxpayers hammer on their Congresscats to spend less.

As it is those persons can bob and weave hiding taxes (and therefore how much they really blow) from the present taxpayers. It should be obvious on these threads that most of the status quo defenders (who claim to not be) don't understand how much they now pay in federal taxes.