And it may tax by tariff and duty. Both methods would be a fair way to rid ourselves of the income tax.
You left out excise.
That be as it may, you seem to prefer a tax hidden from sight to one impose where you can see. I suppose ostrich's feel much the same way. Guess they figure hiding their head in the sand provides a degree of camoflage by making in them look like a bush or tree. Only problem being them the buzzards that have a tendency to roots on such bushes crapping all over them.
We are all paying through the nose, rich and poor while politicians play the tune of envy and resentment that Americans continue to respond to not understanding the full picture what is happening to them in hidden taxes like tariffs and duties, corporate excises, general corporate imposts like FICA and the corporate income tax, all of which are paid out of the consumer's (i.e. citizen's) pocket book through the price paid for those products .
The NRST is a means to open VOTERS eyes to the reality of the burden imposed on them. Until that happens you can expect perpetual growth of government without the brakes we desparately need.
To remove taxation from the sight of the individual, is to remove the goad which assures accountability of government to the electorate. Federal tax rates are high because a majority of the electorate do not share proportionately in the burden their demand for largesse imposes on the minority of citizens.
The siren call for representation without taxation is the formula that got us where we are at today. The ability to hide or disguise taxation from the view of large sectors of the electorate allows the Congress to get away with the creation of the evergrowing monster that it fosters.
Liberty and freedom have a price, responsibility. When that price appears to be avoided there are no brakes on the growth of government, the ultimate result is the end of freedom through creeping socialism.