With "Tax Reform" in the title of the thread,
you should have already known that the NRST shills
would be regurgitating their disingenuous snakeoil.
Just the same, they can be useful idiots, and I appreciate that they bump Tonelson's article to the top of "Latest Posts".
The NRST is an inherently regressive form of taxation that is truly despotic. Long term, it would result in a two-tiered socio-economic stratification of our society. It is not disimilar to a 21st Century eco-feudal system where the corporate aristocracy invest and expand their property holdings completely tax-free, while the serfs are overburdened with the excessive taxation on consumption and persuaded that it's supposedly "fair" because the consumption taxes are redistributed through the formal social welfare system.