If you dislike paying income taxes...  

The only problem with this idea is that it assumes that the income tax is actually legal. It is not. There is no law that says you must pay income tax.
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sounds good! income tax can be so frustrating due to all those loopholes. and (although I benefit from it) the redistributing of money sounds a bit like atheistic communism to me. You know, when you do not pay so much in income tax but somehow due to deductions and credits you end up getting back a sizable sum? "Take from the rich and give to the poor" also steals charity.

I briefly scanned through the site a bit and have a couple points to ponder...

What if I'm buying all my goods overseas? Are the other countries I am buying from going to tax me and send the money to the US? NO!!! Good for me because then I pay no tax. Bad for US because the US is again without funds needed to run this country.

Yeah, nobody wants to pay tax, but nobody wants to quit driving on the roads around here, sending our kids to school, or some of the other benefits we have because of the taxes we pay... Once a national retail sales tax is put into effect people will buy less within our country to avoid the tax.

It makes more sense to me to work toward proper spending of our tax money...

Just a thought... And, yes my profession and training (CPA) does have an effect on my decision on this matter, but not because abolishing taxes would effect me financially but because I have a little knowledge of what is actually involved with the income tax system.

I am all for this actually. I'd heard about it years ago and would like to see it come about. I actually heard once that all the income tax that comes in west of the Mississippi goes to pay for the IRS. Go figure. I hope they decide to go with the Fair Tax Act. The only problem I do for see is unemployment. All those IRS people put out of work, let alone the accountants that do just taxes, will put a strain on the economy for awhile until they find other jobs. For most it will just go from one pencil pushing job to another but for some it might be harder to find another job.

This is interesting Claudia but unfortunately I cannot see that it will happen. I am sure that there will be some smart person who will find a way to avoid paying anything, or very little under a system such as is mentioned here.

We have GST (goods and services tax) here in Australia. This replaced the state and sales taxes that were previously paid, and in fact it did make many goods cheaper. Some things are exempt, and that included medical, fresh foods and a few things like that, but basically it applies to the majority of goods and services. This GST is in addition to income tax, but it has meant that there is more money available and so income tax has been able to be reduced several times in the past couple of years.

The one problem is that some people will still trade, i.e. buy and/or sell, for cash. This means that there is no GST paid and so the black economy still exists. Perhaps not as large as it was before the introduction of GST but it is still there all the same. The things I do like about GST though is that the price shown has to include the GST, so it is not an added extra. The rate is fixed at 10% and cannot be changed without the agreement of all the states as well as the federal government. That sort of system would be hard for the US, given the number of states that there are.