"Yes it does add up.
I appreciate your support, but it does not add up. Never did."
We must have had a misunderstanding. What I meant by saying that it adds up is that it adds up that the government is trying to decieve us and screw us with smoke and mirrors to raise more taxes.
".....the government is trying to decieve us and screw us with smoke and mirrors to raise more taxes."
"government" is the one entity you can count on to resist the hell out of this. I don't think we would pay MORE taxes here, and I applaud the effort to get the taxes OUT ON THE TABLE in terms of sales taxes rather than taxing income. Anything that taxes consumption rather than production is a good deal in my book. Before I voted for it I would demand the repeal of the 16th amendment, though