Nonsense, how would you even then compete with slave labor manufacturers?
Conversely, a new day would dawn for foreign manufacturers selling in OUR market. Their products would then have to begin to pay taxes in this country; since all products would be taxed AT THE POINT OF SALE.
Tariffs would accomplish this nicely.
How in the heck do you compete with them now? Answer? You don't! They don't have the costs of our taxes in the price of their products currently. Ours do. Under the NRST, that would be reversed. Why can't you see that?
Tariffs would accomplish this nicely.
No argument, not in a perfect world--one in which the federal government was operating under truly constitutional constrictions. But that is not reality. You want to go from point 'A' directly to point 'Z'--but that is not politically feasible.
Let's get the tax system simplified, in a form that is utterly visible to ALL of the American people. Then we can begin to make the argument that the rate is too high, and spending is beyond what the Constitution allows. All Americans will then be united in the only tax debate that will be left on the table--reducing the rate.
The way things are now, the politicians have the mechanisms to divide and conquer--which they have fine-tuned for the last 50 years. This plan is the only one in existence that has a prayer of taking that control away from them.