This is not just sometime I thought up in the last ten minutes. Smarter people than me have been working on the National Sales Tax for a long time. They've worked out most of these details. I think if you actually read up on it, you would find it substantially fairer than what we have now.
As for buying off-shore, unless you are talking about small items like jewelry, the cost of shipping the goods back to the states would like be more than the sales tax. Kinda self-defeating. On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Dana <dana.tier...@gmail.com> wrote: > > excluding food would make it somewhat less regressive. I don't want to > say what a good idea, though, when the devil is in that sort of > detail. Depending on what exactly is being taxed, though, and how, it > might be fairer than what we have now. Although that is a very low bar > ;) > > What's to keep the uber-rich, for example, from buying their consumer > goods in the Bahamas or someplace with no sales tax? I realize that > some of the more obvious possibilities already have a VAT so I am just > playing devil's advocate here -- a lot depends on the specifics, is > the point I am trying to make ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351852 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
