Isn’t a National Retail Sales Tax essentially a tax on labor?
With some proposed sales tax bills, maybe, or at least will seem as much. There is little doubt that the entire topic is a potential can of worms. Much of the debate over the current income tax rests upon the disputed definitions of wages and income. Common sense and numerous Supreme court rulings dictates that wages and income are not the same, and that wages should not be subject to any “income” tax. The exact same word challenge applies to the sticky topic of a sales tax and labor. Firstly, with NESARA, the easy answer is no. That is, NESARA allows people to reasonably segregate labor from the sales portions of contracts (Part II, Section 5(C)(16)). However, let’s look at the question and discuss this issue in detail. The Constitution provides Congress two methods for collecting taxes, direct taxes and indirect taxes. The phrases “direct taxes” and “direct tax” are used specifically within the Constitution, the phrase “indirect taxes” is implied. Direct taxes are mentioned in Articl
