100% agreement across the board!
The instant you exempt anything you open the door for the K Street crowd to continue their operations! Far better to let each individual decide for themselves what their necessities are IMHO.
https://fairtax.org
Good for them. Fair tax is wrong.
The necessities of life are air, water, food, health care and housing. Right now the Rodents are trying to tax air because they can, because they are power mad despots.
So it's up to the people to stop them, but being stupid about it isn't the way to go. Absolutism in the other stupid direction doesn't work, either, because, hell, I didn't mention transportation, so transportation shouldn't be taxed, so those tires your car needs shouldn't be taxed, right? And clothing isn't optional, so clothing shouldn't be taxed.
Sane societies draw sane lines.
If someone is going to advocate a national retail sales tax, there's going to be arbitrary lines drawn. Sane lines say don't tax food and medicine, everything else is fair game.
What are you going to argue, that someone does "need" that heart medication so they can just refuse to pay the sales tax by not buying it?
Grow up. This is real world stuff here. In the real world, sensible decisions are made.
What's one of the things that got the peons upset with MessiahCare? The crazy taxes on essential medical devices.
The best way to NEVER get support for a national retail sales tax is to tax food. Try to remember why the French were revolting. er...why they had their revolution against King Louis.