Comment: I vote for VAT! Solving the problem of the low income segment of the population will take more data then I possess to offer a solution; be it a rebate table based upon reported income or some such approach. Taxing on consumption precludes all the problems of "adjusted income "manipulations under the present code and makes outright evasion near impossible. I say "near" because I never underestimate the imagination of the dedicated contrarian. I can't imagine that there do not exist some lessons to be gleaned from the tax codes of the European community. E. D. Cox Northridge, CA 91326 |