The European VAT is close enough to a national sales tax. No way do I want either in the IRS Federales tool kit
And with all the state sales taxes....you add a Federale sales tax making sales taxes 15-20% and you will have widespread cheating. You will have to hire tens of thousands of new IRS Federales to enforce it
State sales taxes are widely cheated on and states have a hundred’s of thousands of tax agents trying to collect them
“The European VAT is close enough to a national sales tax.”
That is bull crap and is an out right falsehood.