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br> Reading the letters on my piece advocating a national sales tax in place of the federal income tax, I'm starting to get some inkling of why nobody from the Bush Administration has called me about economic policy or even offered me the same sort of deal Armstrong Williams got . Still, in my defense, I'm not some loon flying solo on this quest. Alan Greenspan, which acknowledging the political intractability of a national sales tax, has testified before the tax reform panel convened by George W. Bush that a consumption tax would be best from the perspective of promoting economic growth, particularly if one were designing a tax system from scratch, because a consumption tax is likely to encourage saving and capital formation." The CATO Institute also broached the same topic, albeit in a much more scholarly way than me, in a 1997 study entitled, Emancipating America from the Income Tax: How a National Sales Tax Would Work . Although they support a much different implementation than I do, Americans for Fair Taxation also have a a href= "http://www.fairtaxvolunteer.org/smart/faq.html" target= "BLANK">handy set of br> fast facts /a> on how a national sales tax would work in a practical way. /p>

But, let's face it, the convenient part about arguing for or against a national sales tax is that it will never actually happen. No one's hypothesis will be tried out and, thus, no one can be proven right or wrong. But I still think I'm right. See how we go in circles?

p> BAFFLED BY BEANTOWN br> Re: Lawrence Henry's Driving in Boston :

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