Also President Reagan gave us free trade, moving from a closed board to open boarder. While under claosed border, the production tax was the cheapest and easiest way to collect Federal Taxes. All States were equally burdened in the manufacturing.cost biult into product. With free trade in place those same taxes in the production cost of product remain to this day. The USA is handicapped with a 22%+ penalty in competing with imports. That has brought us to this point of fiscal collapse and ripe for One World Governance to take our Constitution away. We need to level the playing field with Free trade and demand euql taxation on all product, the FairTax plan.

Agreed the VAT is the worst thing that could happen to the USA. If the FairTax is implemented, it will eliminate the IRS and as you know the FairTax act has a 6 or 7 year mortorum on the fairtax structure, that it will be void if the 16th Amendment is not repealed Constitutionally.

Remember, under President Reagan we were promised a flat tax and it has been amended 1,200 times since. By leaving the tax structure the same, you do not eliminate the same old graft in DC causing congressman beholding to lobbyists who can fill their family treasury upon retirement from the campaign funds. Absolutely astounding that we allow this corruption.

When President Reasgan gave us free trade, out closed market tax structure was left in place. Due to convenience, we had set up our tax structure on production as the administeringof it was available. Now we find ourselves near the end of our prosperity by taxing it to death through production tax. We need to change to consumptiontax, thus lowering the cost of domestic production and equally taxing all product including imports. FairTax.org

Very good analysis of what happenned over the past 10 years. Hee is a link to Independence Caucus, a site for vetting candidates on their constitutional character. http://icaucus.ning.com

What is the difference between a Conservative Nationalist and a liberal nationalist? A Federalist. When President Bush offered the Democrats 20 billion dollars for ACORN to get them to sign the first bailout, that did it, it turned on the light and these elitists in DC are exposed. Do not vote for any candidate who is not a fundamentalist of the Constitution, even if it means voting third party. But let us not be ignorant to the benefit of cleaning up the GOP of it's RINOs.

Great article.