Much deeper than that.
All wholesale transactions are also taxed 1%.
Every time a dollar trades hands it gets devalued by 1%.
Add 7% - 10% Sales Tax to the equation you get something scarier than compounding interest. You get a government issued currency that clones itself every 10 - 15 transactions. No need to print more money it does it all by itself.
If our GDP is $14,260,000,000,000 this transactional tax would be an astounding: $142,600,000,000, sales and additional fluff taxes would be $1,426,000,000,000 but the real kicker will be all of the B2B wholesale transactions that currently do not get taxed... at least 10x more. Every raw material, every exchange of dollar value.
In the Health Care reform bill all payments made to a party > $600 per year are required to be reported electronically to the IRS. This will make foreign labor, materials and products much more attractive to US consumers.
Kiss the dollar as the reserve currency of the world good bye. People are resourceful and there will be a plethora of black market barter exchanges popping up... Back to the Gold standard.
Quote from Scataphagos:
"1% transaction tax" would be MANY TIMES the income tax for traders.