Originally Posted by Squirrelinabox

Why would you prefer a large sales tax over income tax? Not attacking the idea. I'm genuinly curious.

Like I said in an earlier post, I'm no economy expert so I, personally, have no idea as to what it would take to maintain our current state without income tax.

I do completely agree that there are a hell of a lot of bloated programs. And yes, probably only a nickel on every dollar sent to the government actually gets to where it's supposed to go (made up that ratio, I have no idea what the real thing is). Just about every program requires some overhead, so 100% of the funds are never going to go directly to where they need to go, but I do agree that the percentage could be bigger than what it is now.