[graycamel]

Get rid of income tax? Good idea. Replace with consumption (sales) tax? Very bad idea. Sales taxes discourage sales, the very thing that strengthen our economy. Instead, all taxes should be collected by the states, or even by the counties and cities as they do in Virginia. Then, what the states don't need, they can send to the US government. The federal government wants to micromanage everything, so before this can ever come to pass, the Congress will have to pass several laws to close down all the departments that the federal government has NO BUSINESS running. They will never do that, though.

[SierraWasp]

"Instead, all taxes should be collected by the states, or even by the counties and cities as they do in Virginia. Then, what the states don't need, they can send to the US government."

Is this literally true and really going on? I proposed this in 1995 but of course couldn't get any traction as a newly elected local government official. If it's already being done somewhere... I want to know about it.

It just seemed to me that since Counties and Cities already had elected "Tax Collectors," why not let the power follow the money and devolve government the right way!!!

Please point me to information about Virginia's system if, indeed what you are saying is in fact the current truth. Thank You in advance.

[and the horse you rode in on]

Instead, all taxes should be collected by the states, or even by the counties and cities as they do in Virginia. Then, what the states don't need, they can send to the US government.

We already did that. It was called the Coonfederation of States and failed. We replaced it with the US Constitution.

[and the horse you rode in on]

The federal government wants to micromanage everything,

If we return to having Senators apointed by State Governments to represent the States instead of the citizens, all that crap can be stopped. The trouble is the states, as states, have no representation.

[fabian]

But people will have alot more money to spend so I don't think sales would falter.

[FITZ]

Sales taxes discourage sales, the very thing that strengthen our economy.

We have too much consumer debt so this would help people save instead of spend. Besides if manufacturing jobs are all in China, sales isn't helping our economy very much any more. It doesn't lead to new manufacturing jobs.

[ApesForEvolution]

An NRST would be front and center and you would see how much the government is raking in to run the Big Gov. fraud. Kind of like if withholding was eliminated and everyone had to stroke a check to the Federal Mafia. The progressive communist income thievery enslaves Americans to their government and the cost is already passed onto consumers. You would see the reduction of retail prices because of the eliminatino of those tax-costs in products through a new day of competition - since competition for customers is what drives the economy at the consumer level.

[juzcuz]

How About---instead of owing the UN for an on going deficit---

Let's Charge the UN with a World War Prevention Peace Keeper Tax-- Make that tax payable to the United States armed forces ---families and their descendants for as long as a muslim terrorist threat lasts.....