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Forbes is the man to oversee Tax Reform.

Perhaps he is if he possesses enough humility to see that his flat income tax/VAT schemes have been found severely wanting---that the tax reformers in the GOP have moved far beyond his platform of years past....all the way to the repeal of the Sixteenth Amendment and the implementation of the NRST.

I would need a whole bunch of convincing to reach the point where I trusted that to be the case.

Well IF The 16th amendment were to be repealed I would have no problem with a NRST. although I perfer the Tauzen version with the lower rate and a seperate collection of SS and Medicare taxes.

The reason is SS needs to be privitazed, if there is 1 tax that includes SS it will become much tougher politically to kill a bankrupt SS system. The porblem of SS will be buried in the overall budget, which is what the socialist rats want.

The other reason a NRST tax would be a disaster for small goverment is the FACT that a repeal of the 16th amendment is not going to happen, It would require 67 Senators, 292 Congressman and Ratification by 38 states.

Which Rats in the Senate do you see voting for the repeal of the Income Tax??? Daschle? Boxer? Kennedy? Hillary? Dodd? Mikulski? Schumer? Kerry? Leahy? Reed? Graham? Bakus? ... we would need all the GOP Senators and 16 rats. You tell me how that will happen.

Which Rats in the House do you think will vote to repeal the 16th amendment??? Kennedy? Waxman? Mc Dermitt? Rangle?.. We would need all the GOP House members and 62 Rat congressmen to pass a 16th repeal..

If you really believe this could happen, I'd like some of what you are smoking.

Perhaps if YOU would possess the humility to see the NRST isn't feasible at this time due to the risk of ending up with both a Income and Sales Tax, you could support a feasible ax Reform which may be ( I'm not sure even the Flat Tax can get through, too many timid RINO's), which isn't perfect but gets 90% of the way there.

I need a WHOLE lot of convincing that the 16th amendment can be repealed.

Perhaps he is if he possesses enough humility to see that his flat income tax/VAT schemes have been found severely wanting

You must have missed this:

The Treasury is looking at long-term proposals to scrap the corporate income tax and replace it with a value-added tax, which would work like a national sales tax on consumer and corporate purchases.

from Inching Away From Income Tax

Once again there was no, never has been, a reference from O'Neill to "scrap the income tax" for individuals...At least not one that I've found, if you know of one I'd like to see it in context.