[DH]

The "black market" is already here. It has been here for as many years as the state sales tax and mandatory sales permits have been around. Those people running these types of business DO NOT report their income to the IRS today! With a sales tax they will have no choice but to pay some of their income in the way of sales tax to reputable businesses and thus the government.

[DH]

Has it sunk in that if the tax cheats start paying the same tax as you that your tax bill would go down? Currently I would guess that for each taxpayer there is one cheat not paying anything and not reporting their income.

If they passed the national sales tax and peoples' taxes did not go down there would be a revolution!