On 03-07-98, DAVID HARTUNG declared to ALL:
DH> I have been giving some thought to the current Tax situation, and have
DH> been trying to come up with a solution. While a number of good ideas
DH> have been submitted, they all have the fatal(I believe) flaw of
DH> leaving Washington holding the purse strings. The only long term method
DH> for reducing the size of the Federal Government is to take the purse
DH> strings away from Washington. One way I have come up with to do this,
DH> is to repeal the sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution. This one act
DH> would return the purse strings to the states, and I promise that if a
DH> given state thought that they were being asked to pay more than their
DH> share, they would think nothing of withholding their money, sort of
DH> like the U.S. and the UN.
Whatever it is that gets done with the tax system, we'll likely see it
very soon - soon as the Millenium Bug hits IRS computers.  |-)
Your idea is not far removed from the one the USTP had in its '96
platform.  Basically, they called for returning to original federal
revenue sources, tariffs, with the states making up for needs above and
beyond what such revenues could produce - a "state rate tax" based on
population.  Their thought was that such an approach would act to
encourage congresscritters to argue for less rather than more federal
spending.
Bob     /\-/\   - proud Ilk   homebody@galstar.com
C.A.T. ( o o ) Chapter Ilks
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