With APT, production costs are lower, retail prices are lower, compliance costs are much lower. These are all pro-growth.
You are merely blowing smoke.
You tell us 0.3% collected from the individual out of his expended income for consumption and investment/saving. That is 0.3% of personal expenditure, (i.e. 0.3% of 0.8*GDP) effectively 0.24% of GDP extracted visibly from individual citizen's transactions in our economy.
Federal plus state government revenues collected run roughly 30% of GDP and that is not counting the incremental costs of the the APT tax on every transaction occuring throught the GDP chain all $60Trillion turnover(circular cash flow) capital dollars of it.
Guess where all the taxes and costs lay hidden. Not in sight of the citizen that is for certain, but definitely in the retail prices of all investment and consumption purchased by that citizen.
Take your APT baloney and stuff it.
There's nothing sinister about pro-growth tax reform. Taxes must be paid, just like any other economic cost. NST has it's virtues, but APT surpasses it. With NST I can't imagine people looking at their Walmart receipt and getting worked up enough to call their Congressman. Most informed people already know how much the government taxes. It's an accepted thing, and that's not about to change.