[FreedomCalls]

So basically with the States collecting the taxes and sending them to the Federal Government, we are back to the basic inter-level-government tax structure we had in Pre-Civil War U.S., the irony is not lost on me.

No, it's worse. We are back to the Articles of Confederation where the states had to voluntarily send in their tax remittances to the central government.

[Paul C. Jesup]

You say that as if it were a bad thing, I say if gives more pull from the States and the citizens toward Federal Government that way.

[Phantom Lord]

No, it's worse. We are back to the Articles of Confederation where the states had to voluntarily send in their tax remittances to the central government.

How would the NRST differ from the states currently sending tax collections to the feds for items such as gasoline, cigarettes, utilities, and countless other things?

[Le Seigneur De Porc]

We are back to the Articles of Confederation where the states had to voluntarily send in their tax remittances to the central government.

Now you're getting warm and figuring out the purpose of this......

For them, its not really about the economy - like any good group of cons, the guys selling this snake oil can convince good but gullible people that this is a good thing, and they don't really care about the disruption.

There's always been a populist fringe that wanted to see a poorer, balkanized America. Seems to fit some romantic notion of the "liberty" of a peasant tyranny invisibly controlled by a few.