Star Parker  With the wide public sympathy today for "cleaning
up Washington," it's too bad that more attention hasn't been
given to Mike Huckabee's "Fair Tax" proposal.  There is no
perfectly constructed tax, and this idea, like all, has its
critics. But it also has huge benefits relevant to today's
concerns and warrants much more serious attention than it's
getting.  The proposal would get rid of all existing taxes --
the income tax on individuals and corporations, the payroll tax,
the estate (death) tax -- and replace them with a single
national retail sales tax. Fair Tax proponents say that it would
take a sales tax of 23 percent to meet current obligations.
Enactment of such a tax would be accompanied by repeal of the
16th Amendment, which was ratified in 1913 and made it possible
for Congress to tax income.  Most probably are not even aware
that the Constitution had to be amended to make an income tax
possible, and that this did not occur until the beginning of the
last century.  It's also worth noting