In his deal to become House speaker, Kevin McCarthy promised his party’s conservative hardliners a vote on legislation that would scrap the entire American tax code and replace it with a jumbo-sized national sales tax. That's a national 30% sales tax on everything from groceries to gasoline. They want to raise taxes on working-class and middle-class families while slashing them for millionaires and billionaires. Are they TRYING to show exactly how out of touch they are?”