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...when you raise the price of something--which is what a national sales tax would do

Under a sales tax, prices will go up but so would disposable income. We would no longer pay income taxes.

I still like your protest idea.

Yes, the right way to tax is up for debate, but the idiocy of our current tax code should not be.
If nothing else, we need to have a grass-roots protest, otherwise Congress will go on its own merry way of pork-barrel spending. This might be one way to do that. And there are probably plenty more if everyone throws in their ideas.

Under a sales tax, prices will go up but so would disposable income. We would no longer pay income taxes.

Sorry to inform you but your disposable income would go down.

The NST proposals are taxes "of the gross payment" (including itself) at the final transaction, not the sale (before tax) price...That means you would pay taxes on other taxes, fees etc. imposed before it (the ultimate VAT)...The phony 23% sales tax would increase the price not 23% but a minimum of 30%. If you want to see an example of what a NST would do, take your phone or any utility bill riddled with taxes, fees, charges etc. that wouldn't be eliminated with the sales tax, then add 30% to "the gross payment" ...now tell me what percentage of tax is paid on the "service".

Using their phony 23% rate, my phone bill would have a 42% tax on the actual service charge.

The claim of "lower prices for goods and services" is also bogus...What part of the service would be reduced? Wages?...There's also a sales? tax on "ANY government" payroll (service) increasing the cost of government by 30%...

You would be paying a ~~sales~~ gross payment tax on things you never dreamed of. Like credit card and other interest. Don't forget interest is the purchase price for ~~borrowing~~ buying money, it along with investment interest, banking fees, management fees, are subject to the sales tax as well...

Eliminate tax payers,(corporations, estate, gift etc.)revenue neutral to the government and MORE disposable income for the tax payer?...No way.

As to the hookers, pimps etc...They would get a phony rebate every month the same as Bill Gates or anyone else would, and of course there wouldn't be any fraud in that total scam...GEE, where would that money come from anyway?

Under a sales tax, prices will go up but so would disposable income

Prices will not go up.