It is good to know how much tax is there. It will wake a lot of people up. But it will also be a huge discouragement to people spending and will have a negative effect on our economy.
Patently ridiculous. Even if you don't agree about after-tax prices falling, you'd have to admit that purchasing power would be at least closely equivalent. Also, what are people going to do with their money if they don't spend it? Sure, there will be some increase in savings and investment (hardly a bad thing), but eventually, that money doesn't do you any good unless you buy something with it.
It shows how badly a person has been infected with the tax-and-spend mentality of modern American government when THEY CONSIDER THRIFT TO BE A BAD THING, and a detriment to our economy.
That kind of short-sighted silliness is exactly what has gotten us to this point: the point of overwhelming, overweaning government intrusion into our pocketbooks and our economic lives.
This is the thinking that makes long-term prosperity for individual citizens harder and harder and harder to obtain.