NO VATs they sound cool but inpractice they don't work too well and they allow the govt. to raise them way to easily. Give me a Flat Tax or an NRST(my preference because it abolishes the IRS). Either way a Flat Tax or an NRST is better than what we have now!
I don't know how ''cool'' they sound, but, having lived under a VAT regime for a time (and, no, the income tax didn't go away when they passed VAT, either), they are in practice just about the ''uncoolest'' scheme imaginable. A pain in the a&& all round, and very easily raisable by Parliament, er, sorry, Congress to confiscatory levels.