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Another political hurdle low-tax advocates face by embracing a national sales tax, he continued, is the fact that the 16th Amendment to the Constitution provides for the levying of a national income tax. He said he could only support a retail sales tax if the amendment were repealed and another amendment enacted in its stead specifically forbidding federal taxation of income. The modern activist judiciary, he said, would likely allow the reinstitution of federal income taxes unless instructed explicitly not to do so.

The above is the key. Without repealing the 16th, you can bet that we'll simply end up with the old taxes and a new tax.

That would be disastrous, but it would be right down the alley of big government Democrats and Republicans alike. They'd love to snooker you with the idea of one, but sucker you into getting two.

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At least the voices that question the NRST (fairtax) are being heard now, instead of shouted down or drowned out.