Originally Posted by GatorB

You are so off. People will have LESS money to spend. Do the math. This only helps those that are rich. A guy with a wife and 2 kids making $10 an hour already gets ZERO $$$ taken out of his check in federal income taxes if fills in his w-4 form correctly. How does adding 23% to everything he buys give him more money.

The same guy making $50K a year would have to spend less than 11% of his income on items subject to this tax to come out ahead. I'm 100% positive it would be higher than 11%.

If this pased the economy would TANK.

FACT: # of low middle income voters > # of higher income voters. No one is going to vote for more taxes.