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The national sales tax will favor cheaper imports over more expensive home grown items

Wrong. There will be no hidden taxes embedded in American made products. The NRST strips out the cost of embedded taxes in products. Most imported products have embedded taxes in them.

As I lean libertarian, the end in mind, the radical reduction in the size and scope of government

Got it. I'm not a libertarian but I have read and understand the libertarian platform.

A suggestion to my NST friends, and I am listening (hope you are checking in on us, chiefnegotiator) is to focus on the political end in mind. Ending the 'IRS' may put some bad people out of work, but I have bigger goals in mind.

The flat tax involves government initiation of force and or threat of force -- "report your income and pay the tax or we'll fine you and put you in prison". It also requires every person to report to the government how much income they make. That's an open door for the government to snoop around in people private financial affairs.

With the NRST if a person doesn't want to pay the tax they can choose to not buy the item -- and they can still get a check every month to cover the tax up to the poverty level. And since no person has to report their income to the government the government has no tax incentive to snoop around in a person's private financial affairs. No doubt if chiefnegotiator is looking in, he now has a reason to cast a happy smile.

Apparently the bigger goals you have in mind include the government prying into people's private financial affairs and the government initiating force and threat of force against people. Have you read the Libertarian platform?

Libertarian don't get elected, why would I read their platform?

"report your income and pay the tax or we'll fine you and put you in prison"

That is the visceral hatred I think could be tapped over time to return us to a pre-1913 American republic free from the DC tax regime; a return to true federalism.

These days I lean rather Jeffersonian I guess.

For what it is worth, NST advocates semm more interested in abolishing the IRS than destroying the DC tax regime.

I needed to complete my thought; I prefer a stream of revenue collected at the docks in the form of a tarriff so that there will be a means of federal revenue that can replace direct federal taxation. I do not like the idea of eliminating the tax at the dock, and I hate the idea of double taxing imports.

But if you eliminate the collection at the docks and just slap a tax on it, the power of the Fed will grow as monetary policy will determine the price of imports.

With the NRST if a person doesn't want to pay the tax they can choose to not buy the item -- and they can still get a check every month to cover the tax up to the poverty level

Is getting a welfare check every month supposed to impress me? Where does that money come from?