[valkyrieanne]

That's why a consumption tax is NOT unfair to the "poor" (usually spendthrifts). If they don't SPEND, they don't PAY.

Well, people have to eat and they have to have medicine. Some states already exempt those things from sales taxes.

[Principled]

Well, people have to eat and they have to have medicine.

Yes, the nrst has zero net tax on necessities.