National Sales Tax is unconstitutional. Tariffs on imports are not. Reinstate tariffs and repeal 16th amendment and problem solved, constitutionally.
"Reinstate tariffs and repeal 16th amendment and problem solved, constitutionally."
So you would replace the revenues that the government collects via income taxes with import tariffs? Are you serious? Any idea what the rate would have to be?
Answer: There is no rate that would work. If you set the rate high enough to replace income tax revenues with current import levels, you would shut off all imports. Then how much revenue would be collected? Zero.
We won't even get into the sanctions the WTO would place on us.
"National Sales Tax is unconstitutional"
... since it clearly is nothing of the sort. Please present your reasoning on why you think it might be. The FairTax is actually in the nature of an excise which certainly is specifically enumerated under the Constitution.
There have been threads on this in the past and the FairTax comes away with being as constitutional as can be.