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"You can't dodge a sales tax" You're kidding right? Replacing income tax with a national sales tax would immediately create a massive black market that didn't
by chadmalik 16y ago
"You can't dodge a sales tax"
You're kidding right? Replacing income tax with a national sales tax would immediately create a massive black market that didn't exist.
Its always humorous to me when people claim that a national sales tax would allow the IRS to be done away with. Uh, think it through. the sales tax would need to be around 25% to replace our income taxes. So you don't think people would be trying to dodge that? And the IRS wouldn't be going around checking retailers to make sure they were paying the tax? LOL...you think the IRS is intrusive now, wait until they are trying to track EVERY SINGLE TRANSACTION. Now there's some big government for you!
- natrius 16y agoValue-added taxes are hard to avoid because they're collected at every level of production. A black market would only be able to easily avoid the tax on the difference between the wholesale price and the retail price.