"Otis Winslow" wrote in message
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"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
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The flat tax (which I'm against) doesn't even kick in until you make
like
$30K.


BTW, I heard on the radio that something like one-fourth of households
now
pay NO taxes whatsoever (aside from local)...so who are the parasites?



Everyone should pay something. From the first dollar. There should be no
parasites.

As for a consumption tax .. it's a great idea. But would be a night mare
to
enforce

No moreso than sales tax already is. Even more, there is much less that can
be manipulated via "interpretations".

and I think the resources required to chase it down and enforce
it would offset the reduction in govt size from implementation of a flat
tax. People would just pay cash and barter to avoid it like they avoid
sales tax.

Only commodities (primarily) can be bartered.

One last thought: The US existed for it's first 125 years without an IRS,
and with only excise taxes. We started to rapidly lose our liberties and
privacy when the Income Tax and the IRS came into being in 1913 (just in
time for World War One).