-=> Quoting Robert Craft to Bob Mcdaniel <=-
 RC> I think the 17% was the flat (income) tax while the 23% was
 RC> the sales tax; so on a national scale, we're talking about
 RC> 17% of taxable wages and 23% of consumer sales. National
 RC> taxable wages and national consumer sales aren't the same
 RC> base.
 RC> It may also be that the 23% includes social security
 RC> reform. 
The national sales tax sounds like a good idea, but I don't
look forward to it -- I pay 8.75 percent in state and local
sales taxes now, and even that amount is enough to raise my
blood pressure!
Question: does the national sales tax proposal include a
mechanism for adjusting the rate as consumer spending
increases and decreases?  I ask because discretionary spending,
especially on big-ticket items, is affected by factors that are
mostly beyond government control.
Walter, Forked Deer River Ilks
wluffman@usit.net
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