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I support both a Fair Tax and a Flat Tax plan that would dramatically streamline the tax system. A Fair Tax would replace all federal taxes on personal and corporate income with a single national tax on retail sales, while a Flat Tax would apply the same tax rate to all income with few if any deductions or exemptions.

A consumption tax, a national sales tax makes some sense. But I think that if we move towards a Fair Tax, if we move towards a national sales tax, we have to make sure that we do away with the income tax.

When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed.

I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

I've always intuitively liked the consumption-tax model.

Taxes should be simple and fair... I'm not for increasing income taxes - if we even have an income tax.

The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.

If we were starting from scratch, there's no question a simple retail consumption tax with protections for those with lower incomes would drive the economy the best and be the simplest to administer.

To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.