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"Under the income tax, if I earn income and don't pay the tax, I can be fined and jailed," said Rockwell. "Under the consumption tax, if I consume a taxed item and don't pay the tax, I get fined and jailed.

This is always a point at which Lew loses me. Wouldn't one presume that the tax is to be collected before possession and therefore comsumption occurs? Assuming these aren't 'illicit' black-market purchases? The bottom line is we need to get the IRS flashlights out of Americans' back ends.

And, as far as I'm concerned, the IRS flashlights had better not be replaced with anyone else's flashlights. If that is the case, then the taxation system still isn't Constitutional.