You said a mouthful, and how!
No tax ever seems to “sunset” or truly go down.
I don’t trust a VAT tax, nor anything that smells of how euro fools fund their socialist state.
Simplify the income tax we have and reduce gov’t to essentials.
March in the streets to make it happen.
There was an excise tax on telephone long-distance service that was imposed to help pay for the Spanish-American war in 1898. It was finally repealed in 2006.
So you can't say it never happens. /facepalm