re: National Sales Tax - why not?

I am a proponent of it. The negatives I have heard discussed are that it makes people less likely to make large purchases because of the substantial 25% tax put on the price tag. This would hurt the car mfg in the US. The counter to that is people don't care how much cars cost anyway, as long as their monthly payment is at a certain level.

Another negative that I do see the logic in is that the super wealthy spend more money, but a much smaller percentage of their actual income. While the tax would apply to the money the spend, it would not apply to the large portion of money they don't spend, and that would go untaxed. Whereas the average American that spends everything they make would end up being taxed on their entire income.