“But they WON’T stop the income tax.”
No. The thing about taxes, though, is that it’s not important how they’re collected, but rather how much is collected. Anything that helps ease the burden is fine by me. You may see it as the more kinds of taxes, the more taxes raised, but that’s not necessarily so. Adding a new tax on top of the income tax, the corporate tax, the capital gains tax, excise taxes, inflation, etc. may very well decrease the burden of all thos taxes, so long as it ais a politically useful tax. And a national sales tax could be politically useful, in that it’s regressive and would hit a majority of the electorate, so that it wouldn’t be any longer possible to pretend it’s just Fat Cats revolting against Washington.
“You may see it as the more kinds of taxes, the more taxes raised”
No that’s not my point.