Pyramid schemes only work once. Everybody else is just a sucker.
Thinking that a sales tax is going to drastically change retail sales is patently absurd.
There are several states that have a sales tax INSTEAD of an income tax and retail sales in those states works just like it does in states that do not have a state sales tax.
If you have never had a sales tax audit by the California Franchise tax board you have not really begun to hate the tax man.
States that have sales tax have many schemes that people use to avoid them. But typically 6-8% is the tax. Look what happened in states that put in luxury taxes etc. If say a yacht costs $1,000,000 in the US plus 23% FT. I go to Mexico and buy the same yacht and register it there. Why would would you pay the taxes here? I think it is level sensitive. at 7% I pay my sales tax - at 23% I look for ways to beat it. Plus in many states not ready to eat food is not sales taxed - under FT it would be and the sheeple's ability to understand it will be limited.