Gasoline already has a 56 cent per gallon tax (18 cents federal excise tax, 18 cent state excise tax, and sales taxes at roughly 8 percent or 18 cents). Now we are going to add another 18 cents for a federal sales tax?
I agree a sales tax will be better. But it won't happen. It would be far too visible.
There is no room for a national retail sales tax. Just how much do you think people will accept when they go to buy something. The states and localities already have it at 8 percent.
Certainly there would be no room for a national retail sales tax if the federal income and payroll taxes were not repealed and you were faced with paying an additional tax out of your current takehome(i.e. after tax) pay.
However that is not the case, as all income and payroll (FICA * NC) taxes are repealed, both individual and business, replaced by a single rate single stage retail sales tax.
Under HR25, you would receive you full gross pay due. There would be no withholding or tax on income. You would pay a flat rate on your retail expenditures, and receive a fixed payment for tax upto the povertyline of expenditure each month dependant only on your household size.
I agree a sales tax will be better. But it won't happen. It would be far too visible.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Visibility is the entire issue, how does an electorate wear government imposed horseblinders exercise that "Eternal Vigilance" upon with our liberty depends.
"As a matter of fact, what the income tax does — and this is the debate that I think we always try to get into in order to let you and him fight, see — and the people of this country are led down a path where the actual control of their resources, which in the end is the control over their will, is handed off to the government." . . .
"The government then manipulates that will in order to destroy the freedom of our electoral system through the income tax structure, and we call the resulting slavery a free system."
"In point of fact, it is not as the founders understood, and the only way to restore real freedom is to give people back control over the income that they earn so that they won‘t, at the voting booth and in other phony issues, be subject to that manipulation."
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
--Edmund Burke (1729-1797)