It's a VAT!
(Duck and cover for incoming!)
Is hiding under your desk a trained trait in grade school nowdays, you know to keep the teacher from hitting you with the erasers thrown at you when you say something so ignorant?
Since a single stage retail only sales tax is not a VAT,, as a VAT is implemented by taxing all business purchases and a retail sales tax does not, your calling it a VAT is just the least bit of kind'o' dumb.
"...something so ignorant".
Well, aren't you the presumptuous one.
I'm a tax lawyer with 17 years of experience (includiong training IRS agents from Chicago, Baltimore and Philly).
"Ignorant" is something I am not when it comes to the Internal Revenue Code.
I accept your apology.
Oh, and by the way, if you implement the "fair tax" and somehow believe that Dems won't turn it into a VAT as soon as they regain controll of Congress, I've got some land off of the coast of Tennessee I'd love to sell you my naieve little friend.