Monday, April 04, 2005

National Sales Tax

Is a national sales tax a good idea?

Not if you want to buy a car, or a house, or a computer.

Not if you are elderly and would be doubly-taxed by a lifetime of income taxes, then a retirement of goods taxes.

Kevin Drum, in this article, counts many more ways in which a national sales tax would be a bane to everyone but the wealthy:

George Will is in love

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