You're wrong.
You brought up the issue of net gain or loss after nrst implementation. Your position was ignorant to the exclusion of pretax savings, pretax investments, capital investments, estate taxes, among others.
These are not "many more issues", gregoryful. They are parts of the issue you claim to be your deciding issue.
It is preposterous to believe that you would make this a deciding issue without including all components affecting the outcome.
I suppose you're just blowing smoke.
He is probably an IRS agent who has just been pretending to be a freeper since 1998 as cover. Them IRS agents are a cleaver bunch.