You are not seeing the big picture.
Whores buy Coca Cola.
Pimps buy Coca Cola.
Shady businesses buy Coca Cola.
All these scumbags would be paying tax under a national sales tax plan. Currently, whores, pimps, drug dealers and millions of shady businesses avoid income taxes in the underground economy.
Good and decent people pay taxes today in the current system--the scumbags of society do not pay taxes under the current system.
Under a national sales tax, everybody--including the scum of society--would pay a national sales tax. Hundreds of billions of dollars currently go uncollected from the underground economy.
Under a new national sales tax, good decent people would pay a fair share because they will not be pulling the cart for the scumbags of society who would be forced to pay their fair share also.
It would not be enough! Furthermore, this promotes the motive that so many of us despise: Using the tax code to "punish", or reward, such as "wealth transfer".
The reason we are in the mess we are now, is that someone wants to reward or punish somebody else with a tax. Taxes are for only one thing. Paying the governments bills, not social engineering. Even taxing "pimps an' ho's", jus' 'cause dey's pimp's an' ho's, ain't gewd.
Pimps buy Coca Cola.
Shady businesses buy Coca Cola.
All these scumbags would be paying tax under a national sales tax plan. Currently, whores, pimps, drug dealers and millions of shady businesses avoid income taxes in the underground economy.
You've got to understand that people with legitimate jobs visit whores, buy drugs and patronize shady businesses.
Whores, drug dealers and shady businesses won't collect and remit sales taxes under a sales tax regime. Furthermore, the legitimate income earned by the john, pot smoker or patron of a shady business won't be captured by an income tax anymore, either. And lastly, Coca-Cola, its bottlers, distributers, shareholders, retailers, etc., are already paying income tax on sales to drug dealers and whores.
Looks like when it comes to the underground economy, the sales tax strikes out.