Read the links I gave in #97 from the standpoint of a taxpayer in one of those countries and the "negative experiences" are clear.If they are clear then you won't have much trouble describing them.
They typically have a myrian of exemptions and exceptions - all of which are prime candidates for political mischief -So could a NRST. The lesson is don't have exemptions.
but they also have some form of income tax which is also fraught with "politiical mischief".I'm not suggesting a VAT/income tax hybrid. So what's your point?
Perhaps you can't (or won't) figger that out, though, so just tell us how your "Nightmare VAT" overcomes those difficultiesWhat specific difficulties are you talking about?
"I'm not suggesting a VAT/income tax hybrid."
So where is your proposal for a VAT which eliminates corporate and individual income taxes?
How many other supporters do you have for that approach?
Perhaps you should try Remedial Reading 101. Most interested in the subject will have no difficulty seeing from the links in #97 what the actual VAT experiences in several other countries have been.
You're not suggesting anything except the idealized concept of a VAT. How is it you expect it to be any different in practice that the existing VATS (or are all those countries doing it wrong?).
You - I'm sure - can explain how your Nightmare VAT will keep all those nasty things from happening here (like both a VAT and Income tax).
One of the primary principles behind the FairTax is to not have exemptions/exceptions whenever possible - and the bill is quite good in that regard. To start that nonsense after passage would be a HUGE uphill battle since the law would be the FairTax which says as a guiding principle:
"To tax all consumption of goods and services in the United States once, without exception, but only once."