George Will's got a good one, too:

His (Rep. John Linder, from Georgia) bill would abolish the IRS and the many billions of tax forms it sends out and receives. He would erase the federal income tax system -- personal and corporate income taxes, the regressive payroll tax and self-employment tax, capital gains, gift and estate taxes, the alternative minimum tax and the earned income tax credit -- and replace all that with a 23 percent national sales tax on personal consumption. That would not only sensitize consumers to the cost of government with every purchase, it would destroy K Street.

K Street is shorthand for the Washington lobby industry.

Will goes on to discuss the benefits of Linder's plan. Benefits which, I think, would accompany any major simplification of our tax code, not just the national sales tax.

I'm not exactly a fan of the national sales tax, simply because I don't think you'll ever get a 23% sales tax past the public, no matter what the end effects will be. But, this guy's efforts could still help us get tax simplification, just by scaring the opposition into accepting something else.