I'm going to try to summarize the thoughts so far. It sounds like the 16th ammendment does not specify how taxes are to be collected. For instance we have zillions of taxes not related to our "employment income". Therefore the 16th ammendment already provides for collection of taxes from businesses off of retail sales. The only thing that would have to be modified is the tax code itself and process of collection which I do not believe requires any ammendment changes and only passage of a bill through the US house and senate.
I disagree. The 21st Amendment (repealing Prohibition) sailed through Congress and was ratified by the states in less than a year. The IRS is even more unpopular with the people than prohibition was.
HR2525 implements significant barriers to the possibility of having a sales tax with an income tax. By the way, these barriers do NOT exist today...meaning that the gov't could, overnight, implement a sales tax on top of our existing income tax....yikes!
By passing HR2525, we would:,
defund the irs
destroy all existing income tax records save those of delinquents
erase 100% of the income tax code
eliminate paycheck withholding
eliminate payroll tax
Even without abolishing the 16th first, we become safer from having both by passing the nrst. After all, how difficult would it be to re-institute an income tax after defunding the IRS, after destroying ALL income tax records, after allowing all of us to receive 100% of our paycheck free of federal deductions? And an entirely new income tax code would have to be re-written.
Those safeguards do not currently exist - it would make us safer to pass the nrst in that regard.