[Mind-numbed Robot]

Come on, even the "Fair Tax" proponents gave up on that lie long ago.

I am a Far Tax proponent and I haven't given up on it. You are insistent on a purely technical point that is correct in its limited way but moot overall. When you claim that the present system and the Fair Tax are equal in that respect you are wrong. The present system taxes only income so it can never reach those folks without catching them, arresting them, and charging them with tax evasion. That is a RICO approach and has been used but it is not feasible for the government to do that in a broad way.

You seem equally intent on denying that the NRST will recoup some of that money when the scofflaws purchase something new, as they are likely to do. To insist on that is to be ingenuous.

[SolidSupplySide]

You seem equally intent on denying that the NRST will recoup some of that money when the scofflaws purchase something new, as they are likely to do.

If the scofflaws purchase something new in the legitimate economy, it will be taxed in either system. If the scofflaws purchase something new in the underground economy, it won't be taxed under either system.

Underground economy transactions by definition can't be taxed.