I’ll tell you why this is messed up, a really bad idea, and one the Left would LOVE to see happen.
Once you’ve installed a “consumption tax, good luck getting rid of it.
Later, and as soon as possible, a bill would reintroduce the income tax and now you have BOTH the consumption tax and the income tax.
There’s no getting around it. The ONLY answer to our recovery of our Free Constitutional Republic and rescue from oppressive tyranny is to DISMANTLE the $3+ trillion 80%+ unconstitutional portion of the feds.
The FairTax legislation goes to great lengths to make sure the income tax does not return. Read the bill here...
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/25/text?r=96&s=1
You’re right; once a tax is in place, it will stay there. We’re still paying ancient taxes on some things, like phone bills.