The issue and superiority of the NRST is not one that allows governent be able to plunder the citizen for more, the issue of NRST superiority is one of personal liberty and empowerment that the NRST provides to citizen not the government and of superior economic performance.So you want a tax that's easy to evade. Nice. Then the marginal rate has to be higher. Honest people have to pay more. And the economy suffers overall.
This is the United States of America you dunce! That is the way it was supposed to be from the begining and WAS that way until 1913 when this communist inspired monster called the "progressive" income tax came into being!
So you want a tax that's easy to evade.
Sorry your barking up the wrong tree.
Then the marginal rate has to be higher.
23% max marginal rate of the NRST is just fine against the 40%+ of the income/payroll tax system.
Honest people have to pay more.
Hmmm, the tax burden that a family of four will have at various annual expenditure levels as compared to that same family under the current tax law, (2004 income plus FICA/MC):
And the economy suffers overall.
http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/jorgenson/papers/baker.pdf
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