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Then what's the other taxes he wants to impose?

FTA!: “a bill that would abolish the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), eliminate the national income tax, and replace it with a national consumption tax.”

I guess they mean a (federal) sales tax because taxing at time of consumption is fairly hard to implement.

> taxing at time of consumption is fairly hard to implement

Yet very amusing to imagine.[1]

[1]: In a Monty Python or Douglas Adams way, natch.

I imagined it in a dystopian way with zillions of cameras everywhere (how else would we know who ate that sandwich that you took with you when you went hiking with friends for a week?), but yours is better.

Imagine John Cleese working in an office, tallying how much toilet paper every employee uses at work, so that they (the consumers) can be taxed for it, and not their employer (who merely bought it)

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