National Sales Tax. Part 2

Thanks for all the comments to my original post. I knew when I wrote the post that there are tons of fine details that need to be taken into consideration, but the bottom line in my opinion is that a national sales tax in replacement of our current income tax would be pretty awesome. Of course fine tuning would be required. PROs - Encourage savings. - Simple, reduce time required, improve producitivity (because people will do other things). - Reduce government costs, save taxpayer money! - Tax everyone, including tourism and non-citizens. Non-citizens (aka illegal immigrants) should pay taxes. I believe Tourists should as well, especially since they are using our resources while visiting. Important Considerations - Rebate system. There would should be some sort of "rebate" system, which would allow credit for certain income brackets, and other credits. - What would the "tax rate" be? - Is everything taxable? - Is everything taxable at the same rate? - Industries would virtually be eliminated...Block heads no more...IRS minimized...what type of actions would be done to help evolve these industries? Real lives will be affected. It seems like the one prevalent belief is that this would not happen anytime soon. It would really be well worth a national discussion on this. Maybe we (pf bloggers and readers) could make it happen? Now THAT would be something to blog. :)