On 2005-09-17, Icebound wrote:

As far as "protecting the poor slob", I am personally intrigued by the
various proposals that call for elimination of all current forms of tax, and
replacing them a single tax-on-fund-transfers sort of approach.
http://users.ixpres.com/~concepts/ for one example.
Implementation might be a bitch, or not. But the simplicity and inherent
fairness is intriguing.

Agreed.


Another proposal is Linders Bill:
http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/taxes/a/aafairtax.htm which *does* put
it all explicitly consumer's head. If that bill ever sees the light
of day, it will interesting to hear the debate.

The basic problem is that the entire process of federal "revenue
sharing" is clearly designed to circumvent the restrictions on federal
authority in the constitution. Debate on that point will be muted at
best.