Implementation of sales tax is a hard-to-define thing. Try this on the back of a napkin - in every transaction, there is a buyer and a seller. There are tens... hundreds...thousands of transactions in the production of a single item. Is each "sale" therefore to be taxed? What is the effect on the final price? However, the real problem is not the implementation of taxation - the real problem is "what the money pays for." Way too many services are offered by the "benevolent" Federal government, and the precedent allows liberal/socialist politicians to provide more, more, more over over the years. All this more, more, more will just come out of taxpayers pockets until we will all be just working for the State. Please, let's re-examine the programs and allocate those that don't need to be operated at the Federal level down to state/local/community administration....