This was the opening line of Mike Huckabee's speech yesterday, who, of course, is running on the idea of abolishing the IRS and all federal income tax. To be replaced with the "fair tax," a national consumption tax. To be sure, people disagree about whether the tax will be fair, or if it would hit low-income households harder than others because they sometimes pay more for the items that they consume. Nevertheless, it was an opening that received lots of cheers.

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