IF they take away the sales tax portion - you eliminate people paying into the system that don’t currently.
Illegal immigrants, underground economy, tax dodgers, foreign visitors to the US, etc.
How are you going to get the “poor” to pay 18%. Have you seen how the left is having fits over 9%?
If there is any change to this plan - I believe the only thing would be to take the sales tax off food and medicine.
Instead of dropping the sales tax because of the initial wave of opposition (such as it is), it would be much better to have this conservation and attempt to educate people on its benefits.
Replacing the sales tax with a payroll tax — just because it seems so hard right now to sell the NST — violates one of the prime tenets of 999: that everyone should pay, should pay the same rate, and should know very well what they pay.
Putting the burden back on the producers, and again exempting the takers, is pointless in terms of truly restructuring our tax system and, more importantly, in terms of solving the kethal “demands for free stuff” problem.