[mmercier]

I promise you if enabling legislation for a national sales tax is ever drafted and passed all promised tax eliminations before the fact will fall away like rain off of a duck.

The income tax is going no where ever, this is just the method by which enough public support can be gathered to permit the drafting of a national sales tax legislation.

There is a push on to get a national sales tax, and if enough people are foolish enough to fall for the bait and switch routine we will have both taxes.

The sad Irony of this is that the Republican party of limited government and lower taxes must be the one to pull this trickery off; it will be the largest single tax increase and the largest expansion of government in recorded history.

Just like Nixon, the anticommunist McCarthite, opening up trade with Communist China. Only those opposed to a thing can fool their supporters into accepting that very thing.

[Turbopilot]

We're not discussing any national sales tax, we're discussing the FairTax. The FairTax includes the elimination of the IRS and all other tax structures, as well as a resolution to repeal the 16th Amendment to prevent such taxes in the future. I assure you that virtually no FairTax supporter would support a different national sales tax that didn't provide for the elimination of other taxes.

You have an important point, but your point is regarding some fictional national sales tax that no one has proposed rather than the FairTax bill actually under discussion.

[pigdog]

Nope - both won't co-exist. Read the bill.