Finally! Someone who admits that things would cost more with the tax. Thank You!
This debate has been marred from the onset by people assuming that somehow we would get our entire pre-tax paycheck and pay less at the register, too. That stunes my beeber, if you catch my drift.
Anyone who has ever been shopping in Canada has run afoul of the provincial tax, the GST, and the VAT, which can nearly double the price paid for an item by the time you get it out the door.
There is another factor, though, that being that after the elimination of the negative income tax (the EIC), wages will have to increase to make up the difference, or the working poor will not make it. The same people who pay the bulk of the taxes now will end up paying just as much, imo, just in a different way.
Things would be better for us if Congress limited spending to constitutional spending and unconstitutional federal bureaucracies were abolished. But what are we slaves gonna do about it? Most of the slaves are happy on the big government plantation.