Are you going to support your previous statement by showing us the language in the bill that “mandates that the states piggyback in lieu of all the taxes that they now impose” or not?
I doubt that you will because there IS no such language in the bill.
You’re the advocate. How about you answer my question or I will answer it for you. The fairtax requires the states collecting the tax and piggybacking their own gross receipts or sales taxes on to it, and if they don’t a neighboring state will be authorized to go in and collect it.
If it’s not in the fair tax, then it has been changed since I last read it.
From the faq on the fairtax.org website. “Retail businesses collect the tax from the consumer, just as state sales tax systems already do in 45 states; the FairTax is simply an additional line on the current sales tax reporting form. Retailers simply collect the tax and send it to the state taxing authority. All businesses serving as collection agents receive a fee for collection, and the states also receive a collection fee. The tax revenues from the states are then sent to the U.S. Treasury. “
Some states may comply, and others will just have to have the IRS come in and do the collecting.