[AppyPappy]

Exactly, the writer failed to remember that he wouldn't be paying $10k to the government every year in income tax. It makes that $6,000 tax on a car a bit easier to accept.

[Phantom Lord]

It makes that $6,000 tax on a car a bit easier to accept.

And never mind that @ 25% of a price of a new car is imbedded taxes already. Which would disappear. And that if you buy a used car, you pay ZERO sales tax.

[hopespringseternal]

Yes, he is ignoring the fact that the NRST is meant to replace the income tax, and that he is already ponying up that 40%.

And then he turns around and brings up spending, which makes the point of the NRST right there. Spending will never go down as long as politicians can hide taxation by turning corporations into tax collectors.