While I'm concerned about the amount of money taken from people's pockets, I'm more concerned with the amount of money going to the governments.
Socialist programs require vast amounts of substance to remain viable. Right now social security, the base program for our socialist structure, is starving to death. I want it to starve to death.
The NRST will fund it, and it's perpherial programs, into perpetuity. The viability of the NRST is itself dependent on socialist principles, the prebate, which is simply another form of redistribution of wealth. And the NRST depends on it.
All the arguments of "fair" rest on it. Every argument of unfairness of the NRST impacting low income and elderly is resisted by citing that provision.
While I'm not convinced that the NRST, when codified, will actually take less money from each citizen, I am convinced that more money will be funneled to the feds; this has been a high profile argument in favor of the NRST. 