[mmercier]

>> We're not discussing any national sales tax, we're discussing the FairTax.

From the link.

WHAT IS THE FAIR TAX?

A proposal to eliminate the current federal income tax structure and replace it with a national sales tax.

[Turbopilot]

WHAT IS THE FAIR TAX? A proposal to eliminate the current federal income tax structure and replace it with a national sales tax.

Exactly. The FairTax has two components: First, eliminating the current tax structure. Second, replacing it with a national sales tax. We're not discussing just one component or the other, we're discussing the combination of the two. Most supporters likewise will only support the combination, so there would be no political support for the sales tax part without the elimination of the current tax structure.

[pigdog]

Here's a link to the bill:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.25:

And a link to the FairTax website which has lots of goog economic analyses:

http://www.fairtax.org/research.html