[Bigun]

The POINT is the growth of government vs the private sector in this country over time .

Do you think the trends represented there are a good thing or a bad one?

Would making government purchases tax exempt speed up or slow down the trends depicted?

[Mister Da]

First, I don’t think anything short of castration would stop Congressional spending. Sales taxes or no sales tax, they are gonna spend like drunks because they believe it will benefit their constituencies & get them elected.

Second, under the FT, products & services are cheaper across the board, because businesses no longer pay income taxes, so even if the Feds charge themselves a sales tax, it costs them nothing & the goods & services are still cheaper. If this windfall prompts the gov’t to spend even more money, you can hardly blame a taxation system for this.

Congressional spending has no relation to HOW the gov’t is financed.