[sitetest]

Dear woodbeez,

Under the NRST, how will any taxpayer know even half of what it is costing him, precisely?

The current system, flawed as it is, gives each worker a concrete number, a dollar amount, that is being taken from them. Someone making $60,000 sees very clearly that $4,590 each year is going up in smoke for Social Security and Medicare.

However, under the NRST, the cost is entirely hidden because individuals will be unaware of how much they spent in the NRST in a year's time, and thus, will have no way of calculating the amount that went to Social Security.

THAT's hidden.


sitetest

[woodbeez]

The current system, flawed as it is, gives each worker a concrete number, a dollar amount, that is being taken from them

What about the fact that the money they are paying now can't possibly be paid back to them without either a huge increase in the payroll or income tax? They might clearly see that the money is taken from them now but they don't understand how that money will be repaid to them. Those "concrete" dollars mean nothing.