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What you don't realize is the fact that under a flat tax you report your income and then pay the tax due. If you don't report your income you don't pay any tax. Consequently, tax cheaters and those on the "underground econony" along with criminals and welfare cheats have a great opportunity to cheat us just like what's happening today. Nothing will change under a flat tax. The cheats and criminals will continue hiding income and law abiding citizens will continue paying their share of the unreported taxes.

Under the NRST EVERYONE PAYS THE TAX! When you buy something you pay a tax. It's fair because everyone, law abiding or not, criminal or tax cheat, prostitute or gambler all pay the same rate of tax every time they purchase ANYTHING!

"Under the NRST EVERYONE PAYS THE TAX! When you buy something you pay a tax. It's fair because everyone, law abiding or not, criminal or tax cheat, prostitute or gambler all pay the same rate of tax every time they purchase ANYTHING!"

Unless they buy it on the black market. That's the only major problem I see with such a system: a black market would spring up immediately, and it would be very, very hard to defeat.

Not meaning to appear argumentative, because my sole goal here is to lower the tax burden (while recognizing gov't must be funded, somehow!), but the "cheaters" argument sounds like someone trying to legalize drugs so we can (for the first time) tax drug sales and tax income of drug sellers. I know there are cheaters, but I also know that these are a relative "drop in the bucket"!

I looked at what I spend in a retail sense, and I see what the "fair tax" people are proposing as a sales tax percentage, and I lose money! I would pay more tax than I do to the stinking IRS! That makes me AGAINST a federal sales tax! Heck, if I could keep one year's IRS money for myself, I would be debt-free except for my house payment.

I couldn't agree more that the income tax as it is cannot be justified or defended and needs to go away, along with the IRS, but the sales tax proposals I've seen take more from me more than the IRS currently does, so I CANNOT support it!!!