Trump will scrap federal income tax and abolish IRS, ally suggests

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66. But for how long?

A billionaire is nowhere if he can't invest, protect, or spend his money. If there's nothing left to buy in the USA, then he had better take a long position in rubles or gold. Josef Göbbels gave a rousing speech to thunderous applause in Berlin in February, 1943, asking his adoring audience, "Wollt Ihr den totalen Krieg?" (Do your want all out war?) The crowd went wild, and rose to its feet with deafening cheering. Two years and three months later, Göbbels and his family were corpses in Berlin as a result of his "totaler Krieg." If Trump and his cabinet get everything they want in this rapid internet age, I doubt it would take anywhere near that long for Putin or any other of his puppet masters to insure that he and his cronies met a similar fate.

Oh, and maybe someone should remind Howard and his pals that the income tax is the domain of Treasury, not Commerce. Also, each state already has the right and power to levy its own sales tax. They don't need the Federal Government to do it for them. Besides, if he is no dummy, he has to have seen that a Value Added Tax is nothing but Government Heroin. Addictive as all hell. Once you get started, you find it never meets your needs, you need ever-increasing doses, and it's still never enough. It gives a temporary financial high, but it wears off, and you always find yourself needing more. Thank goodness the USA never started down that road--and no wonder Republicans hope we do.