Yes, moving to the tax system as proposed would require a massive reduction in government spending. >However I don't understand how you can think tax on trade

Yes, moving to the tax system as proposed would require a massive reduction in government spending. >However I don't understand how you can think tax on trade is authoritarian yet other tax forms aren't. Land, and to a lesser extent the property that's built on it, can more justifiably be taxed, because an individual has less of a natural right of ownership over it. This is due to land being a natural resource, that derives almost all of its value from its natural form, rather than the value the party that appropriated it added to it.