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In article <47jgc6$4lq@ias2.ichange.com>,
   Martin Farkas <MartinFarkas@ichange.com> wrote:

>The National Sales Tax is relatively easy to administer and hard to avoid.  
Its problems can be 
>cured by giving every adult U.S citizen a monthly payment.

>If fact, if the payment were made high enough, we could eliminate welfare, 
social security, 
>minimum wage, unemployment compensation and similar programs.  More people 
would be at work, 
>including current government employees who now spend their time qualifying 
(or disqualifying) 
>people from the various programs.



hi martin

whoa!  while i agree with your premise about the nst being easily 
adminstered, etc; giving every adult u.s. citizen is a superfluous welfare 
system. here's why:

1) why would we want to subsidize bill gates and his (almst as) rich 
colleagues?

2) where would all the money come from to do this subsidy? for instance, 
assume half our population is adult (i'm too lazy to look that statistic up, 
just now). this would give us about 130M to support. interestingly, that's 
about the number of taxpayers (tp) on the form 1040 rolls. this means that gov 
would have to tax these tps enough to pay a washington bureacracy and, 
hopefully, have enough money left over to return to the tps. no matter what 
number you settle on as a payment "high enough" to us, we could never pay 
enough in taxes to give us back the subsidy you propose.


the solution to getting a better world for all of us would be NOT TO TAX US 
BEYOND BASIC GOV NEEDS IN THE FIRST PLACE! when you couple this constraint to 
the efficient nst, then we will begin to achieve the utopia you describe 
above.

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UP THE NATIONAL SALES TAX!
DOWN THE INCOME TAX!
REPEAL THE XVI!

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Leonard Mednick, MBA, CPA
The Irs Dehassler (r)
(Taxpayer Advocacy Since 1967)
"I deliver peace of mind"