Quote Originally Posted by Leadfoot_mf
plus we would collect taxes from tourists as well.
That's true, right now states collect money from tourists in the form of bed taxes at hotels, Florida gets a lot of revenue from that. People in the tourism industry may worry that their business will decline because a national sales tax would turn off visitors from other countries. But right now the dollar is so weak against other currencies that even with a nat'l sales tax it would still be very cheap for foreign tourists.