Comments on: Dumping the Income Tax?

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By: DiggersRealm : Digger Speaks

DiggersRealm : Digger Speaks — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:39:00 +0000

Abolish The IRS?
There has been a lot of banter going around recently about the elimination of the IRS in favor of a national Valued-Added Tax (VAT) or a National Sales Tax (NST). Dennis Hastert, the current house speaker and an Illinois Republican,...

By: Squidly.com

Squidly.com — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 01:46:24 +0000

Tax Reform
Boortz has more to say about the recent claim by House Speaker Dennis Hastert that the Republicans will put sweeping...

By: Who Can Really Say?

Who Can Really Say? — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 23:48:06 +0000

Declare the Pennies on Your Eyes Matt Drudge is reporting that "REPUBLICANS PLAN PUSH FOR ELIMINATION OF IRS". Someone should tell him to stop teasing. Seriously, he leads with that headline, and in the first paragraph says that a "centerpiece" of a "BUSH/GOP" 2nd term agenda...

By: Priorities & Frivolities

Priorities & Frivolities — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 23:19:14 +0000

The IRS and the Conservative Base
I'll leave the policy analyses regarding the abolition of the Internal Revenue Service to James Joyner and Kevin Drum. I doubt, at any rate, that...

By: BoiFromTroy

BoiFromTroy — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 22:15:47 +0000

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By: Little Miss Attila

Little Miss Attila — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 18:05:23 +0000

Making Things Interesting
According to Drudge, Dennis Hastert is claiming that one centerpiece of the second Bush term will be to abolish the IRS and move toward some sort of flat tax. I'm waiting for some sort of confirmation from either the White...

By: protein wisdom

protein wisdom — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 17:22:36 +0000

Over the rainbow
Somewhere, Steve Forbes just sprung a chubby...*

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h/t Mike

update: George Gaskell has some more detailed thoughts here.
See also: QandO, INDC Journal and OTB.

By: The Shape of Days

The Shape of Days — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 16:31:20 +0000

Bush to spearhead massive tax reform?
Okay, this is the Drudge Report, and it's not all that rock-solid in the first place, so take it with a big ol' sack of salt, but... A domestic centerpiece of the Bush/GOP agenda for a second Bush term is

By: INDC Journal

INDC Journal — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 16:25:34 +0000

Drudge Has Me Shaking with Excitement Today
First this link ... ... then this? Fantastic. UPDATE: QandO comments at length on the potential abolition of the IRS. For those of you that may not understand how a flat tax might actually increase (or merely flatten) revenue, in...

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 16:09:09 +0000

McGehee's comment is in line with what I said to Deb. If this happens, we need to immediately start toward a repeal of the 16th to make it harder to bring it back than it otherwise would be.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 15:16:08 +0000

Mitch's objection is to the point. Unless the abolition of the income tax were accompanied by a constitutional amendment either prohibiting the re-enactment of the income tax, or repealing the 16th Amendment, this danger would remain.

On the other hand, if abolishing the income tax proves to be as popular as the Republican leadership appears to believe, it's always possible that any proposal to revive it would result in its proponent being figuratively burned at the stake.

It's for dang sure Mitch and I would be there selling the firewood and gasoline...

By: Director Mitch

Director Mitch — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 14:59:01 +0000

Do you really think the income tax would go away *permanently* if they enacted a national sales tax?

We all know what would happen: the income tax would go away for a few years and then come back for the "very rich". Then in about a decade it would trickle down and we would have a national sales tax AND an income tax.

This is why I am against any new taxation of any kind that promises to eliminate another tax. History shows that the eliminated tax ALWAYS comes back.

By: Boyd

Boyd — Mon, 02 Aug 2004 14:41:45 +0000

Regardless of your listed reasons why this would never pass (all of which I find perfectly valid), this would never pass purely based on all the ~~leeches~~ people who would lose their jobs, such as tax attorneys, not to mention IRS employees (while the IRS would still have to exist under the plan, its size would be greatly reduced).

By: The Sundries Shack

The Sundries Shack — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

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