[hripka]

The IRS keeps income records.

The government, under a 'fair tax', will keep records on ALL transactions.

In your attempt to 'gut the beast', you have just created a bigger monster.

[SolidSupplySide]

The government, under a 'fair tax', will keep records on ALL transactions.

Furthermore, the government will continue to keep records on income in order to determine Social Security benefits. The government gets more records under a sales tax than it would under an income tax.

[Dead Corpse]

On all transactions? Or just the amount of tax collected on all retail transactions?

A pretty massive difference especially considering that latter is still annymous from the consumers standpoint. Retailer are already audited up the ying-yang now. The reporting and complaince mechanisms for collecting sales tax are already in place.

[phil_will1]

"The government, under a 'fair tax', will keep records on ALL transactions."

Another paranoid concern by a anti-FairTaxer. The government will receive sales tax returns .... PERIOD. No detailed records of individual transactions are filed under current sales tax systems and none would be filed under the FairTax.