Yada yada yada, I guess you think smuggling doesn’t exist. But we were talking about Yachts and big boats. How you going to get those across the border. Lie and bluff?
In order to gain on a Rolex one has to travel. It’s not going to be worth the gain on one Rolex. If they bump up their gamble to a case of such items, for what purpose, to resell? Then they have to apply the NRST to their sales. And if they don’t and they get caught, prison.
So yeah, go to Canada and buy the Rolex with no NRST. Only problem is Canada will add their tax. Ok, so buy it on the street, you win. Get back across the border and then what. You got a Rolex at a discount on the street in Canada, better hope it’s not hot.
You’re talking low level crime here.
Fact is, the FairTax is tons easier to enforce than the Income tax.
And as for your boat building industry comments, I and just about anyone else can google and cut and paste. But I have family members that own a significant nationally known brand of boat manufacturing. To a person they would jump for joy at having the FairTax because it would make their lives dramatically easier.
Ask practically anyone in business, they will tell you they will vote for anything that makes their life easier.
That's absurd!
If I'm a home builder and the FairTax would make my life easier, but would also negatively impact the market for my product, would I vote for easy, or would I vote for staying in business?