So you would have a agency larger than the IRS monitoring every retail sales transaction and auditing every sales slip for fraud. Sounds worse than what we now have.
So you would have a agency larger than the IRS monitoring every retail sales transaction and auditing every sales slip for fraud.
Ever paid a state retail sales tax? Same folks administering that will be administering the NRST in parallel with their own taxes.
Sounds worse than what we now have.
Lets see IRS and the income/payroll tax system going after everyone:
"A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man's business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man's counting house....The law will of necessity have inquisical features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it men will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the tax payer. An army of federal inspectors, spies, and detectives will descend upon the state."
-- Virginian House Speaker Richard E. Byrd, 1910, predicting the consequences of an income tax.
versus
me the customer paying a retail sales tax to a business, from whom the tax is collected and administered by the same folks doing that job now in parallel with their own retail sales taxes, the sales tax authorities of the states.
I know which I prefer, I know what hoops and jumps are required for the income and payroll taxes both individually and as a business.
I also know what I have to do regards the state in remitting state sales taxes collected from my customers.
No contest. Besides the NRST also compensates me for the collection and remission of that federal tax, something the current tax system fails to do. I won't have tack on extra to my prices to cover the costs of complying with the NRST and I realize a tremendous drop in costs related to the business side of income and payroll taxes.
Sorry you are barking up the wrong tree there. FC