[CSM]

"I may be wrong, but I am dead set against any sales tax as it is the easiest way for the government to confiscate property against our will."

Can you explain to me how a sales tax is easier for government use to confiscate property than the current income tax? It seems to me that with a sales tax I would have the choice to purchase or not to purchase.

[Phantom Lord]

"I may be wrong, but I am dead set against any sales tax as it is the easiest way for the government to confiscate property against our will."

How does a sales tax make it easier for the Feds to confiscate your property? Currently, they can quickly and easily place tax liens on your property for failure to pay your income taxes. With the NRST there is no tax return for the feds to pry over looking for mistakes.

[Final Authority]

Sales taxes make it easy to tax, ie, confiscate property because it is easy to incrementalize. Say the government, our representatives, get a sales tax passed that is earmarked for 3% or so for SS or drugs. What is to say that once the infrastructure is in place that next year they make 3.5% and so on and so forth until a system of taxation is in place like NYNY or Massachusetts where every tax is raised but because they raise several taxes no one tax seems too much, for the politicians that is. I say that the base of taxation should be reduced not increased like we have in NH. There is a reason why NH is prosperous and it is not because of excessive taxation.