In your mind, how is that relevant? Are you implying that the Church of Scientology spent millions of dollars researching methods of taxation and wrote HR25? Consumption tax idea has been around longer than the Church of Scientology. Be honest or proceed at your own peril.
Might be worth pointing out something:
If you have a complex tax system with deductions and methods for avoiding taxes, then eliminating those methods and complexity punishes the smart.
Simply that. If the smart have an advantage now and you take it away from them, that's punishment.
Can rich dumb people pay accountants? Yes. But over the long run those accountants may cost them more than they save.
It is not clear to me there is value in simplifying the tax system.
"...around longer than the Church of Scientology."
Is Mary Baker Eddy still around? lol
For years now, the American government has established state religion. No, it's not evangelical Christianity. It's Scientology.
Because of a 1993 secret deal with the Internal Revenue Service, members of L. Ron Hubbard's Church of Scientology are allowed to write off costly Scientologist "auditing" and "training" services as charitable gift deductions. Anyone who sends their child to religious school, however, is banned from writing off tuition.
What exactly are Scientologists writing off? Thousands of dollars worth of pure baloney. As authors Andrew Breitbart and Mark Ebner detail in their fascinating book, "Hollywood, Interrupted," Scientology itself is a load of psychedelic babble, and an expensive load at that. It costs over $300,000 to reach the top levels of this cult. "Auditing" -- the service that the IRS allows Scientologists to write off -- is a method of purging "thetans."
Spearheaded by the "church" of Scientology, the cynicaly misnamed "Fair Tax" [John Linder in the House(HR25) & Saxby Chambliss Senate(S25)] is actually a fraudulent proposal intended to sidetrack and derail true efforts for tax reform.