Well the Dems would definitely dig their heels on the 'one rate for everybody' idea.
Also, you'd have to make it next to impossible for Congress to tinker with it,
otherwise the tax bureaucracy snowball would start all over again.
The good thing is once people start to pay-as-they-go, everyone will be converted to tax hawks instantly!
Well the Dems would definitely dig their heels on the 'one rate for everybody' idea.
They do and have, it is a retail sales tax after all. Hardly something new under the sun, most people get the idea what it's about pretty easily. Hence single rate is not a thing they glom onto. They generally like to pretend that it is a tax on top of the current system demogoging the rate and cost of products and calling it regressive is there favorite tactic. In otherwords, anything a pubbie does starves childern and causes old ladies in wheelchairs to fall down stairs.
Also, you'd have to make it next to impossible for Congress to tinker with it,
otherwise the tax bureaucracy snowball would start all over again.
Sorry, the are no silver bullets. Congress has the power to do what it will with taxes under Article I Section 8 clause 1 of the Constitution.
It is up to the electorate to keep Congress in line. All a tax bill can hope to do is to provide a clean slate to begin with, and a system that resists change for the worse by its inherant characteristics, making supermajority rules to raise rates and that sort of thing.
The main thing with about a retail sales tax is that everyone experiences the same rate. Dink with one part of a retail sale tax, it changes things for everyone.
Make an exception then everyone gets the exception, increase the rate everyone gets hit with the rate increase. Not a thing that makes for an easy life for politicians dependant on keeping folks at home happy to stay in office.