[Willie Green]

Huh?

It's a tax "reform" Trojan Horse.
The IRS is the big bad boogeyman who's supposedly eliminated,
but everybody has to line up at the Social Security Administration to receive their cradle-to-grave monthly sales tax rebate checks that supposedly make the system "fair".

Don't let the NRST shills fool you...
It's nothing but a paradigm shifting shell game.

[kevkrom]

The IRS is the big bad boogeyman who's supposedly eliminated, but everybody has to line up at the Social Security Administration to receive their cradle-to-grave monthly sales tax rebate checks that supposedly make the system "fair".

First of all, the FCA/rebate is completely voluntary -- no is compelled to do anything. Secondly, applying for the rebate requires filling out one simple, annual form (or upon change of family status -- births, deaths, amrriages, divorces, etc.) that is no more complicated or invasive than registering to vote.

Secondly, there is no "lining up" anywhere. File an annual form, get a monthly check. Don't file a form, don't get a check. It is that simple.

[ancient_geezer]

but everybody has to line up at the Social Security Administration to receive their cradle-to-grave monthly sales tax rebate checks

Baloney.

If you don't want it, you are expressly not required to apply for it. Your choice.

[Luke Skyfreeper]

First of all, what's an NRST?

Is this anything to do with the "Fair Tax"?

[phil_will1]

"It's nothing but a paradigm shifting shell game."

Well, it certainly shifts the paradigm, all right.

Here are some of the basic fundamentals of our current tax system that will change:
(1) We will be taxed on what we take OUT of the economy (consume), rather than what we contribute TO the economy (earn).
(2) We will stop penalizing US production and making it extremely difficult for US producers to compete with their international counterparts.
(3) We will start putting illegal immigrants and foreign visitors on our tax rolls at a rate that is disproportionate to the rest of us.
(4) We will end the 46,000 page monstrosity that our tax system has grown into and replace it with one that is app. 100 pages, saving several hundred billion $$ in compliance costs in the process.
(5) As the author points out, it will be much more difficult to play the class warfare game.
(6) As the demand for US production increases, jobs will be created here. Even displaced tax lobbyists will be able to find productive employment.

All of that makes for a nice paradigm shift, wouldn't you say?