[TeachableMoment]

He proposes a 25% sales tax,and gets a standing ovation, at a tea party event?

LOL WHAT???

[fortheDeclaration]

I assumed the sales tax would replace the Income tax.

[SampleMan]

The actual rate of a sales tax is meaningless, if it totally replaces the income tax. The reason I say that is that people simply won’t tolerate paying that much tax every single day on every single item.

Therefore within a year the rate would drop to 10% and most federal employees would get their walking papers.

A sales tax to replace the income tax is a good idea, no matter what the initial rate has to be, because once everyone is paying that amount and is reminded of it several times a day, all of the freebies won’t seem like such a great idea anymore.

[no dems]

Hey, I'm down with a 25% Sales Tax if it eliminates the Income Tax. That would be fair. Let all the people on Welfare, pay 25% tax on their kids $145 tennis shoes and $120 Oakland Raiders football jackets that they somehow manage to have the money to buy; not to mention their 42 inch flat screen TVs.

[Arthur McGowan]

I’ll bet he was talking about the FAIR Tax, but the reporter didn’t want to use the right name, so people would be unable to google it.

Calling the FAIR Tax a “sales tax” is one way Democrats try to scare people. They consistently call it a “sales tax” WITHOUT mentioning that the FAIR Tax plan also involves REPEAL of the 16th Amendment and the Income Tax, and the abolition of the IRS.