I believe we’re going to be seeing a lot of attempts in the near future to “condition” us to accept a VAT. I would, if they ABOLISHED the income tax. One or the other, but not both.
And any carbon tax would just be a product of the #uniparty.
Come to think of it, so would a VAT (assuming they did not eliminate the income tax at the same time).
A VAT is nitrogen jet fuel to the engines of Big Government. Consumers could never figure out how badly Big Government was picking their pockets on every purchase. We could absolutely never make government shrink if they did this.