Time for a flat tax

[BDBohnzie]

You have to remember too that many of those European countries are more advanced when it comes to social welfare of its citizens (welfare programs, universal health care, etc), so their taxes on average will naturally be higher. And they normally don't bitch too much about high taxes because a great deal of things that would be out of pocket for Americans, are paid for by their Government.

I'd like to see sales taxes eliminated on basic necessities (food, certain articles of clothing, etc), but keep sales tax on items deemed non-essential. A lot of times, if I know I need to make one massive shop for clothing and such, I'll wait until I'm either in Delaware (no sales tax), or Pennsylvania (sales tax exempt for food, clothing, drugs, textbooks, resale items and residential heating fuels) so that I can save some money.

I'm not sure exactly what to do about Income Tax. While I'd like to see a flat tax, it doesn't make much sense in terms of revenue for the Governments.