Oh, and BTW Nightie, giving soup away by the qualified NFP organization does not qualify as consumption since it is not a taxable event - it is a gift by that organization, not a sale to a consumer. It's what they're "in business" for, you see.
Oh, and BTW Nightie, giving soup away by the qualified NFP organization does not qualify as consumption since it is not a taxable eventThat's circular logic - "it's not consumption because it's not a taxable event and it's not a taxable event because it's not consumption."
it is a gift by that organization, not a sale to a consumer.So? The government doesn't sell their services and they pay the sales tax. The stated purpose of the bill is not to tax all retail sales, it's "to tax all consumption of goods and services in the United States once, without exception, but only once." Taxing retail sales is just one of the means given in the bill toward that end.