[cdefreese]

If he does, he can kiss reelection good-bye. With an income tax you really don't even see the money going out. With a sales tax, you see it EVERYTIME you buy something. He will be branded for favoring the rich, since they are the only ones who pay it anyways....
...but on the other hand...
People will be bringing home MORE on EVERY paycheck. And that will make him look good.

Personally I am all for getting rid of the income tax and the bloated, overpowered, wasteful IRS too. Just have to wait and see.

[rogerthedodger]

if payroll taxes were simultaneously eliminated, then the lower and middle class gets more tax fairness out of this, since incomes beyond 80k are not taxed at the 8+% payroll rate that incomes below are. Plus, you control the amount of tax you pay. Don't want to pay so much? Don't spend so much.

[PhilipFreneau]

He will be branded for favoring the rich, since they are the only ones who pay it anyways.

Not on a "sales tax". The sales tax favors no one. The poor are taxed little, since they purchase little. Those who purchase much, such as the rich, hollywooden types, etc., pay much.

The only way to make this work is to set a flat sales tax rate, with no exemptions, ever. Once exemptions of any kind are allowed, that "foot in the door" will eventually lead to a tax code just as bewildering to businesses as it is now to everyone.

[not-an-ostrich]

What about taxes paid by business?

[concerned about politics]

If he does, he can kiss reelection good-bye. With an income tax you really don't even see the money going out. With a sales tax, you see it EVERYTIME you buy something.

Yeh, but that just SCREEMS smaller government. If everyone paid taxes, which this will do, Democrats would all become part of their Darwin history!
He'll take down the Democrat party for good! People won't want to pay for all those social programs once it comes out of THEIR pockets, too!!!