Your 23-33%% combined taxes is replaced by 18 percent, 9 in income, 9 in sales.
It’s not that hard to figure out.
People who have spent most of their life earning money, paying a high rate of income tax and saving money for retirement, will now get taxed 9% on their life savings as they spend it in their retirement.
It's not to hard to figure out that that is a problem.