The powers that be would never allow it, but a national sales tax would be the fairest method of taxation. Republican/democrat, rich/poor, race a/race b, etc. Nobody should be able to weasel out of it, and the taxes shouldn't take more than they absolutely need to. I don't think we need 80,000 more tax agents. That's like more of the pork barrel crap we the United States citizens are on the hook for.