[Hugin]

National sales tax is not a good idea at all. It makes all businesses and all members of transactions tax collectors for the fedguv.

All busnesses already are. They report all their expenses, and collect payroll taxes.

OTOH, the chance to regain personal privacy and take power from the Feds is huge. Right now every citizen has to report all financial transactions. Imagine never filling out any tax forms, never filing taxes, no fear of IRS audits, and where it's none of the government's business how much you make, how you make it, or where you spend it! I would pay more just for that. BUT NO SALES TAX WITHOUT REPEALING INCOME TAX AT THE SAME TIME!

[jwalsh07]

You live in a dream world. The bureacracy that would accompany a national sales tax would be even more onerous than the IRS as currently constituted. Not to mention the Congressional abuse in raising the sales tax on things they don’t favor, petroleum products, and lowering the sales tax on idiotic things they favor like Sancho’s windmills.

I can only assume you have never been the target of a sales tax audit by a state entity. Belive me when I say they are every bit as bad as the IRS.

[JSteff]

the chance to regain personal privacy and take power from the Feds is huge

You are correct, and sadly, many on this forum would rather see a "simplistic" type of plan just like the current tax code and the national health care plan obama got both houses to pass a few years back.>

[JSteff]

BUT NO SALES TAX WITHOUT REPEALING INCOME TAX AT THE SAME TIME!

Actually ANY CHANGE to the current tax code just invites ALL politicians to tap into all streams of income and never end any current taxes we have.

That is why calls for enactment over the years of "fair tax" / "flat tax" have never started with an ending of the current tax codes. It is just what the tap the public types want.