the nrst should not be supported for any politician who doesn’t first admit that implementation of it requires an amendment to the constitution that SIMULTANEOUSLY: (1) repeals the 16th amendment income tax, (2) prohibits any kind of law by the legislature imposing a legislative income tax, and (3) institutes a national sales tax never to rise above X%.
Simple math on 999. If you have 2 apples and I give you one apple and take zero apples away from you, then how many apples do you have?
Now replace the word apple with the word “tax”.
The same argument being placed here applies even more so to the current system. There is nothing to stop the current tax rates being hiked 20-50-80%
This argument is completely without any rational merit. It is the desperate flailing around by the status quo bots desperate to keep the current political crony rewarding tax system in place.
Every complaint being levied at the Cain plan is even more relevant to the current corrupt failed tax system.
Raising tax rates is actually harder under 9-9-9 since everyone pays so it is impossible to hide tax hikes as being only “on business” or “on the rich”
No tax system will ever be perfect. 9-9-9 eliminates most of the current failed corrupt flaws in the current system while adding NO new flaws.
Arguing, as this author is, that we should cling to our current failed system because any replacement will not be absolutely perfect is childish and irrational.