Game, Set, Match
The tax reform proponents know the agreggate won't change - it's revnue neutral.
Currently, drug dealers only pay a portion of their taxes - the part embedded in taxes (which always right agrees is 20-30%). But they don't pay their income taxes like the rest of us and they don't pay thier fica like the rest of us. They currently do NOT pay all their taxes. So us honest folks have to pay higher rates due to drug dealers skipping out on taxes. But under the nrst, drug dealers will pay 100% of their own taxes. So honest folks won't have to cover any of the drug dealers' taxes anymore.
That's why tax reform proponents say the nrst captures more taxes from the underground economy - like drug dealers. That 100% of their taxes are paid helps honest folks pay the right amount!
In six years, I have never seen a sales taxer concede a point no matter how wrong they know they are.