The IRS has well over 100,000 employees that produce nothing of value.And how many employees will it take to distribute the family consumption allowance once a month to every citizen in the country? How many employees will it take to collect the NRST? The state of Texas estimates that, due to the broader base of the NRST, it will have to collect from 3 times as many businesses as it does now. Does that mean 3 times as many state sales tax collectors? And that certainly means a lot more businesses in Texas will have to start collecting sales taxes when they don't have to now and they will have sales tax compliance costs that they don't currently have.
The majority of sales taxes now are collected by the big retailers like Walmart, Target, etc..
Almost all the states already have the simple collection apparatus in place.
Sure some changes will have to be made everywhere. But those changes are minor in the great scheme of things.
"And that certainly means a lot more businesses in Texas will have to start collecting sales taxes when they don't have to now and they will have sales tax compliance costs that they don't currently have."
You support retaining the current system because of concerns about compliance costs? You can't be serious! Even for you, YN, this is a classic.
FYI, any business that can eliminate payroll taxes, eliminate corporate income taxes and substitute a sales tax for those is MILES ahead in reducing their administrative burden and compliance costs.
That doesn't even count the fact that, under the FairTax, businesses get to keep a small percentage of the tax collected to defray their administrative costs.
I know you are getting desperate to stop this thing, YN, but you are going to have to do better than that.