No national sales tax, no VAT tax. Flat tax and be done with it.
The problem with any income tax is that the cost of government is enbedded into the product/service. This adds a significant increase to the cost of goods and services products in the USA making our products more expensive. At sales tax eliminates that.
We will always have cheaters and scammers, but a flat tax does nothing but encourage people to mis-report income, or not report income at all....The self employed would have a field day - and we'd still need a powerful IRS to catch a small percentage of them....and still have the need to file tax information which should not be the governments business anyway....no, a NST may be the best option...much harder to buy clothes, groceries, cars, etc without paying tax - at least I haven't figured out how to tell Mr. Albertson that I'm not paying the tax.
>>No national sales tax, no VAT tax. Flat tax and be done with it.
A flat tax may only be marginally better than what we have now. The problems with the IRS is defining what is INCOME and what are EXPENSES. Example: If you have a commercial property and you pay to have the parking lot sealed, is that an improvement or an expense? Was it for business or personal use? With a sales tax, it doesn't matter. With an income tax, you are still at the mercy of the IRS.