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There WAS a Fed income tax, in the '30s. There was also the DOLE; it was still " welfare. " The highest rate of taxation, was HIGHER, than it is now. Estate taxes were STILL upon us, in the '30s. So was WW I's telephone tax, which has thankfully been repealed.

Do you want to go back to all of that and more ? I thought that we all wanted L-E-S-S ... not just the same; just a little different.

The problem, with looking backwards , is that we can't. We have to look forwards and fix the messes that we can, without destroying the nation.A Flat Tax would be nice. So would doing away with, slowly, the Ponzi Scheme of Social Security. I can think of quite a few other things to do too ; we just can NOT do it all immediately, nor attempt to foist a 1930s, or an 1880s, on even a 1794 world on a 21rst. century culture.

"My worry," he told WorldNetDaily, "is that somewhere down the road, after we replace the income tax with a consumption tax, the American people will get saddled with an additional income tax."

I like your idea of about 6% of GDP. Any "charitable institution" is supposed to be able to keep its overhead below 7% if its total costs and give the rest of the money to the cause, otherwise they are wasting your donation. I see GDP in the same light and so the same should be true of the government.

Only problem is the one mentioned in the quote above. Because the original income tax was implemented during the Civil War, what happens when a future "emergency" whether real or a figment of RAT immagination requires the government to have more funds? This concerns me. It seems like some sort of constitutional amendment might be required to clearly outline the limitations of such an emergency levying of taxes. That would probably be quite difficult to manage.

BTW - My last attempt - any chance of getting my screen name changed?