[Principled]

...once the price of everything DOUBLES when this tax is imposed,...

Nope. You don't know the facts. Your assertion is as a 7th grader would make.

Prices will neither rise nor fall due to the nrst. It is the competition in our markets that will ensure it.

Why don't you read just ten minutes here or here . Just ten minutes.

Don't tell me you don't need to do so... it is clear that you do.

[Billy_bob_bob]

I've read those before. It all sounds very nice, like tales of the Big Rock Candy Mountain. Unfortunantely, it is also about as real. The sad fact is that no matter what you go to implement, it will be implemented by GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRATS. Now, do you think that they will be inclined to implement these laws in a way that frees the average worker, or do you think they might be inclined to implement these laws in a way to enslave the average worker? Hmmm?

Remember back in the 60's when we passed all of the "civil rights" laws? One of those laws passed provided for a "color-blind" standard to be applied to hiring, e.g. race would not be allowed to be used for determining if a person was fit to be hired for any given job. So, what happened after this high-minded law made it to the bureaucrats? Ta-Da! Affirmative Action! Whitey to the back of the bus! March!

If anyone is making a 7th grade assertation here it is you, for being foolish enough to think that it is possible to give government any power whatsoever without seeing that power subverted, misused and turned against the American people. Sorry to burst your bubble.