Who wants to think of taxes at this time of year?

Apparently the candidates for US Senate in South Carolina.

Republican Congressman Jim DeMint wants to do away with the federal income tax and go to a national sales tax.

But Democratic Education Superintendent Inez Tenenbaum appeared in a neighborhood under construction in Simpsonville today to say that a sales tax would add tens of thousand of dollars to the cost of a new home.

She also thinks it would be unfair for those at the lower end of the income scale.

"A tax of this kind will be hardest on the middle class and lower income people---the people who can least afford that---(who) have growing children," she said.

A group called FairTax.org sent a spokesman to Tenenbaum's news conference.

He says doing away with the income tax would put more money in people's pockets and would give them more spending power.