[UnwashedPeasant]

Your plan still keeps taxation power under control of a strong central government, which eventually would be corrupt. Taxation must not go above the state level. Cato Institute proposed such a tax system, called Reverse Revenue Sharing where each state give a certain percentage of what they collect (whatever/however they collect) toward legitimate interstate expenditure.

[rockhardo]

Whatever works. I think Constitutional limits + 2/3 popular vote would be protection, but I’m not one to argue with even more stringent safeguards.

[Axeslinger]

Thanks for that link...I've been espousing a similar proposition on several threads here on FR. I knew that surely my thoughts could not have been that original.

Let the Feds tax the states, let the states tax their citizens.