re: National Sales Tax - why not?

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Easy answer is because it's not a progressive tax. The poor spend a higher percent of their earnings on just day to day living so they're in effect taxed at a higher rate. The rich pay a larger actual dollar amount, but a smaller percent.

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It doesn't allow redistribution of wealth at the point of a gun.

Sales tax involves choice. You can choose to not participate by Not engaging in the activity.

Income tax is theft. The Government steals it from you under the guise of "public good" but it is actually for the good of those who want what is yours and they get the Government to steal it from you for them.