[Zon]

How do you figure a 20% decrease in retail prices?

It's obvious that you didn't read the link I gave to you to fairtax.org in post 348. Fine, since you don't want to educate yourself I have no desire to help you whom doesn't want to help yourself. That's an honest answer and I suspect you'll want to assert the reason is something other than the one I just gave. The answer to your question is answered easily. Perhaps easier for you if I explain it to you than you reading the website I gave you. But you don't want to learn anyhow or you would have read the Web site.

[William Terrell]

Here's the whole post I made, answering my own question.

"How do you figure a 20% decrease in retail prices? The "hidden" padding companies charge to offset the cost of dealing with income taxes? What makes you think they will remove that from their base prices? If an NRST is implimented, people will expect a 30% increase of the prices they're currently paying. Surely you have noticed informal collusion in many industries to keep a price at a certain level. Maybe a law that they have to lower prices? Hee. "

I don't spend hours on a partisam site the link for which took you seconds to post. If you understand the issue, argue it yourself. Those who post links like that usually are enchanted with the vision in their minds of what they've been told about a topic, but don't understand the nuts and bolts, don't want to understand the nuts and bolts because a flaw would pop the baloon. Sort of like avoiding a medical physical because one is afraid of bad news.

I answered the point about the "hidden" taxes. If the website has a different argument, post it and defend it.