Libertarian don't get elected, why would I read their platform?
You said you lean libertarian, so naturally I thought you knew the platform. As I said, I'm not a libertarian, but I have read the platform. Libertarians do get elected, so your wrong on that count.
Zon: 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".
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.
The graduated income tax and flat income tax feeds that "visceral hatred" because they both sanction the initiation of force and threat of force against taxpayers. The national retail sales tax (NRST) doesn't feed it it eliminates the sanction.
These days I lean rather Jeffersonian I guess.
"No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him." -- Thomas Jefferson
For what it is worth, NST advocates semm more interested in abolishing the IRS than destroying the DC tax regime.
It's the national retail sales tax (NRST), not national sales tax. There's a very big difference, but you already know that. Your opinion is noted.
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.
Tax reform is not the end all be all. Tax reform is but one of five key components to resolving the leviathan-government problem.