I have to believe that those of you who are opposed to the NRST are opposed because you do not understand it.
Please take the time to read both H.R. 2525 and H.R. 2717, and visit these web sites:
http://www.salestax.org ,
http://www.votr.org ,
http://www.fairtax.org and
http://www.cats.org.
Lots of useful information there that just might persuade you that because implementing the NRST will foster and encourage individual FReedom, economic prosperity and equality of treatment under the law, it might, just might, be a better idea than the Marxist inspired progressive income tax.