[cynicom]

When I purchased todays sunday paper, $1.50, it cost me an additional eleven cents for state tax. On any such purchase I pay the same rate as anyone else. Perhaps it is more fair and just to scrap the income tax and use a consumption tax. No deductions, no payments, nothing. In return it would only be fair that the government only spend what it takes in.

[freeper12]

>>Perhaps it is more fair and just to scrap the income tax and use a consumption tax

I agree, but unforunately, my fear would be if we tried to institue a national sales tax to replace the income tax, we get the sales tax, but income tax would stay too....natioanl consumption tax sounds like a decent theory...don't penalize investments, savings etc.

[ancient_geezer]

When I purchased todays sunday paper, $1.50, it cost me an additional eleven cents for state tax. On any such purchase I pay the same rate as anyone else.

Actually more than 33 cents of that $1.50 was due to Federal taxation and tax compliance costs embedded into the price itself.