There are embedded taxes in all the goods and services produced in America. The one exception is imported goods and services (they pay no income taxes or for Medicare and Social Security).

The National Debt can be lowered, along with the projected shortfall in funding for Social Security and Medicare, by adding a 23% tax on all imported goods and services. This could also reduce the out-sourcing and the loss of millions of jobs from that policy. It could also allow doubling the standard Federal income tax deduction. The tax on Social Security benefits should have the limits tripled; they haven’t been changed in the last thirty years.

  – Ronald A. Sobieraj