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Dear Carry_Okie,

"The real problem is spending."

Duh!! Do ya think?? Do you think that no matter HOW you collect it, 20% of GDP for the federal government really stinks? Do you think that whether you take it on the front side - income, or the backside - consumption, it will STILL distort the entire economy, in one way or another??

YOU must be a SQL TROLL!!

LOL.

Or just a skeptical soul who would prefer not to jump from the frying pan into the fire.

Welcome to our club. ;-)


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[Carry_Okie]

Don't get me wrong. There are advantages to the NRST, the most important being the POSSIBLE end of political racketeering using tax-exempt foundations. If you see exemptions thrown in for services they purchase (such as legal help), you'll know that the fix is in.

I just don't appreciate the overselling of the concept without discussing all the positives and negatives first. Banning the IRS only to have the same people hired by the States with the Feds breathing down their necks isn't what I would call federalism. The States would have every reason to under tax their own people, so the enforcement pressure would have to be enormous.