Still, all forms of taxation generate similar problems. Customs declarations? Retail tax reports?
Whatever the form of the tax we'll not change the nature of its enforcement.
Still, all forms of taxation generate similar problems. Customs declarations? Retail tax reports?
Not all forms of taxation create such serious problems.
Indeed, the flat income tax would maintain many of the same problems that we face today and more importantly, the victims are still INDIVIDUALS.
The National Retail Sales Tax (NRST) completely avoids all of the current system's threats to INDIVIDUALS.
With the NRST, the only tax reports that must be filed are the retail tax reports, which businesses in 45 states must already fill out in some form. A NRST would have no more burden on most businesses than a simple change to a standardized form. The NRST shifts the burden of reporting from individuals to businesses, most of which are already reporting the same data to the states. Only businesses in 5 states would be faced with additional reporting. Meanwhile, 120 million individual taxpayers have a huge burden completely lifted from their shoulders.
The only tax system that would be better than the NRST and more in line with what the founders intended, would be a tax directly upon the states, where the people of each state would pay taxes to the state and the states would be responsible for the tax bill to the federal government. This would remove all federal reporting for both individuals and business and it would put control much closer to the taxpayers. As they do today, some states would have an income tax, some would have a sales tax, some would have a combination of the two. The key point is that the people of each state would be able to choose the tax system that best reflects their local political viewpoints. But, the really great benefit would be that it would return a tremendous amount of power to the states.
The only problem with that plan is that there is no proposal in Congress for such a tax system.
That is why we must get behind the NRST. It is the only proposed tax system that eliminates the most significant problems with the current system and is also in the form of a bill before Congress.