re: #19 Lawrence Schmerel

Retailers are already tax collectors for most states. It’s called the sales tax.

For most states — not all. It’s a lot easier for them to deal with state revenue offices than it would be to deal with a federal tax collection body. It would require an administrative infrastructure so any idea of combining that with ending the IRS really doesn’t make any sense. You would then be looking at combining state sales tax with a VAT which in some case would roughly approach 8% + 25% or roughly a combined total of 33% for taxable items. That’s insane.