The drug dealer gets to pocket all of his receipts.
Yep just as he does today under the income/payroll tax system.
That is where the drug dealer cheats the sales tax system, which is about identicle to how he cheats the income tax.
As you point out.
The difference lay when he purchases anything under the NRST from a legitimate business.
That drugdealer/consumer then pays the full tax. Under the income tax system today, when buying the same thing, he pays only that portion of federal tax per-se that happens to get passed on in the prices of goods and services.
Which you have been telling me for years is 30%.