1) Check your history again. You are misinformed.
2) The average US sales tax is around 5%.. care to stay on topic and try again?
I shall take that under advisement. If you tried, really tried, could you be less specific?
2) The average US sales tax is around 5%.. care to stay on topic and try again?
Ah. I get it. When you talk about raising sales taxes by 500%, you're talking about federal taxes vs. sate and local -- as if there weren't a vast and costly federal government, and a whole wide word outside of the US. "Normal and customary," to you, means what you know from the US -- the rest of the world is, pssssht, out there.
And "normal and customary" is critically important, because we should never, ever, think about doing what we have not done before. Because then we might accidentally find a New World or land on the moon or something.
Uncle Sam has his boot on your neck. If you don't feel it, it's only because you're used to it. The Fair Tax lets you see what you pay to support your government -- every day, on every receipt. The system in place hides the cost. You don't miss your money, because you never had it.
And after you file your return, after you lay bare the intimate details of your finances, you might just get some of your money back, hoo-f'n-ray.