Replacing the Current Tax Code With A National Sales Tax Will Reboot the American Economy

I would like to mention you failed to reply to the fact that the National Sales Tax has not been applied to an national level in any nation state. I just wanted to remind you and others. C1 R3: You misunderstood my interpretation of income inequality, I'll rephrase it for you, if the National Sales Tax were to take place there would be an astronomical wealth inequality, this, the government can effect. Why is this a harm? It is a harm due to the fact that the rich already make a large sum of money, and if they made more this would only lead to a creation of a false democracy. The elite will have more money to lobby our politics and corrupt our politicians. You state "Four hundred dollars might seem like a minuscule amount to a rich person; however, to a middle class worker or family, the 400 dollars they would save is a bonanza that would enable them to improve their economic condition" this is horrifically wrong in so many ways. One, 400 dollars is a big save to a MIDDLE class family or person? HA! This is nothing for a middle class family, I know this, because I come from a middle class family! Two, an average middle class family wouldn't save 400 dollars, they would save almost none. Three, it is the minimum wage worker that will save 400 dollars, not the middle class family or person. Don't forget, the rich will save upwards of 50k if they have an income of 100k or higher. That right there, displays wealth inequality. C2 R3: The Affordable Care Act or ObamaCare does not replace Medicare or Medicaid, the ACA takes money directly from its users while the Medicare and Medicaid programs are basically free. When I say free, once you hit the age you start using social security, at the same time you will be using medicare/medicaid, the government will simply deduct the cost of medicare from your social security benefit each month. Where is your source for CBO "saying" that the government spent a trillion in federal subsidies? What duplicate programs will congress just eliminate like the programs were nothing? Everything the federal government spends money on has a purpose you know. Your statement on how defense spending will be untouched is wrong, if anything is to go first, it would be defense spending. When the Obama administration took office, they cut a total of 120 billion dollars from military funding in under 4 years. Now imagine what the would do if they had to deal with a huge reduction in tax income. C3 R3: My opponent also states that a "true" National Sales Tax will be able to dodge the fact that business to business sales will not be incorporated into the tax. This is false. Reason being? My opponent is going beyond the realm of the debate and is fabricating a fake NST, this is a topicality issue, you can not imply that there is a "true" National Sales Tax. We are talking about the National Sales Tax that was written on a bill in 1999, and that National Sales tax says nothing of how it will be able to tax business to business purchases. Furthermore, a National Sales Tax will eliminate many taxes, as seen in the definition of the National Sales Tax (Rezamee R2). I hope you have an answer on to how these taxes will be replaced, without significantly hurting the government's budget or rupturing the economy. C4 R3: Pro has explained a drop in prices if the corporate tax would be eliminated by the National Sales Tax. This is simply not the case. I don't know if you know this or not, but most major corporations find huge tax loopholes letting them not pay a dime. For example CBS corp has a net income of 1.8 billion, and they pay ZERO taxes. You know what this means if you were to implement the NST, there would be no significant difference in prices rendering your theory dull. The government will still lose huge amounts of revenue from the removal of the income tax. Primarily due to the wealthy (100k to 500k a year, not the people in the millions of dollars of income. They dodge taxes through loopholes.) paying the brunt of the taxes according to the Pew Research Center, so if they were to start paying less, the government will be in a huge problem. There will still be a giant wealth inequality dilemma, also corporate already pays zero taxes, so do millionaires and billionaires making the tax break on them completely useless. You'll only be justifying lawbreakers with the idea of no taxes on corporate. Not only that, but the lower middle class will be heavily burdened by a flat tax of 23%, especially the single people, which accounts for 50% of the american population. Also you never mention how a 13 percent tax rate will be applicable without severe consequences, it was never even proposed to be a 13% rate. Prices might go up and down due to a fluctuating consumer demand, which primarily consists of people below 100k in income. That isn't healthy for a market and may lead to an economic bust. Sources: https://www.govtrack.us... http://moneymorning.com... http://www.heritage.org... http://www.pewresearch.org... http://taxfoundation.org... http://www.csmonitor.com...