[In short, it is somewhere between folly and economic suicide to implement a national salestax, even at a modest rate, without simultaneously repealing the 16th Amendment to the Constitution (which permits a national income tax.) ]
I agree completely!
What is to prevent Congress from raising existing tax rates 20-30-50% right now?
The same political pressures that keep that from happening right now, apply even more so to the 9-9-9 plan
Since everyone pays the 9-9-9 tax it is impossible to demagogue raising it as “making the rich pay their fair share”. Everyone know raising 9-9-9 means they will pay more taxes
ditto.
The problem I’ve got with 9-9-9 is that down the road its liable to be 20-20-20.