[Willie Green]

What makes you think state and local taxes, compliance costs, and regulatory costs will go away after the NRST is implemented? Will the Clean Air Act be repealed? Will the ADA be repealed? Will there be no one to enforce the collection of the NRST at the point of purchase?

Well, the truth is that the boogeyman communist IRS Gestapo will simply recycle into the kinder, gentler Social Security Administration Gestapo who will be handing out cradle-to-grave montlhy rebate checks to everybody in the nation. So gooberment employees don't have to worry about actually losing their jobs.

But if you keep asking questions like this, I'm sure the NRST shills will even promise that it'll cure bad breath and athlete's foot. After all, a national sales tax is the cure for everything else that torments our nation!

[Billy_bob_bob]

Willie, would you be so kind as to put your best argument forward against the NRST, preferably in a couple of paragraphs if possible. One of the big problems with tax code discussions is that they can very quickly dissolve into debates over tiny little points. I would like it if you could put together a brief overall summation of your position. Thanks in advance.