[Don Corleone]

No consumerism = no economy. And when you raise the price of something--which is what a national sales tax would do--you will sell less of it.

There are presently about 100 seperate taxes levied on a loaf of bread before you get it at the grocery store. That is in effect a hidden VAT and doesn't seem to stop consumption much. Flat Tax=Good Idea.

[DennisR]

Which bring up another aspect of the flat tax. It would be the ONLY way the Feds could collect taxes. So all of the hidden ways they nickel-and-dime us to death (like Gore's internet tax) would be abolished.