Hastert promotes Linder, advances mutual National Sales Tax agenda

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

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WASHINGTON — Rep. John Linder of Georgia on Thursday was awarded a seat on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee as a consolation prize for being passed over for the chairmanship of the House Rules Committee.

House Speaker Dennis Hastert said he gave Linder the highly coveted seat so the Duluth Republican can continue to press his decade-long fight to replace the federal income tax with a national sales tax.

Linder's appointment came at the expense of a fellow Georgia Republican, Rep. Phil Gingrey of Marietta, who has been lobbying since his election in 2002 for a seat on Ways and Means. Hastert instead gave Gingrey Linder's old seat on the Rules Committee, another powerful panel, which determines how the House handles individual bills.

"I am very excited about this new opportunity," Linder said. "With Social Security reform and tax reform on the president's agenda . . . Ways and Means is exactly where I want to serve."

[KamaAina]

1. A National Sales Tax. How regressive.

Let's make the peons pay tax on every cheap piece of crap they buy at Wal-Mart, while we cash our big, bloated Halliburton paychecks tax-free. How very American. </sarcasm>

:puke: :grr:

[kwolf68]

2. Disgraceful

Of all the worst policies, this is one of my 3 most hated policies of this administration...

And there is a lot to choose from.