It may appear dumb to us, but to the insidious, evil regime and the IRS it appears to be a stroke of genius!
Our evil, corrupt government marching along the road to America’s destruction by paperwork.
The bureacracy must grow so ignorant, dimwitted, dishonest, and incompetent people with lame degrees can have a super great job making tons of money stolen by force from productive people.
Somehow, just somehow, I see an increase in barter transactions in the nation’s future.
Once you have businesses used to reporting every single transaction amongst themselves, it’s quite simple to say “now send us XX% as a VAT tax”.
This is simply paving the way for a VAT - business-to-business taxation that the consumer will never see, other than increased costs of product.