>> not everyone pays tax like those working under the table or drug dealers for example yet they get all the services and benefits we taxpayers fund.
Yes, there is an “underground economy” now, wherein folks earn money that is not taxed. And it’s not fair to the rest of us that do.
However, if a national sales tax is implemented, there will certainly be an “underground economy” build around selling goods without a hefty (20+ per cent) tax attached to them.
My point: the so-called “fair tax” will not stop tax cheating, it will only change the mechanism of cheating.
Underground economy would easily be deterred by tax between those who make the goods and those who later sell them which seller would recoup at time they sell. At least I wouldn’t watch 20 year olds with new BMW who has no job whereby they pay any tax.