"Illegal activity remains untaxed activity under both."
Illegal aliens will be taxed with the NRST because they need to eat and purchase necessities while here working. They will NOT receive their pre-bate unless they have a legal SS#.
No more 'under the table' workers. Just this week, my neighbor's grandson was offered a job for $5 an hour under the table filing at a local doctor's office. This guy is a DOCTOR and he is paying under the table. But bet your bottom dollar this kid will buy some video games at Wal-Mart or elsewhere and pay a NRST.
Lastly, no system is perfect. But the NRST frees the individual from the prying eyes of the fed and I love that principle, don't you? To me its a States' Rights issue.
True, and people who cheat the current system by using cash, will cheat the NRST system by using cash. Like a many people who do not report cash income today, people under the NRST will not report cash payments and will pocket the sales tax. Yes there will be cheating. There will be unreported cash sales. There will be items shipped into this county untaxed. There will be illegal activity that is not taxed. Where there is money to be saved, people will cheat the system.