It seems that it would vastly increase the bureaucracy. Someone or some committee has to decide exactly what is "new" as opposed to "used" and how does "income" differ from "service." The current IRS and state tax guidelines could be expanded to do this.
"It seems that it would vastly increase the bureaucracy."
Let's see ... we would be reducing the complexity of the system by about 99% (as measured by the number of pages in the two systems) and reducing the number of points of collection/enforcement by more than 95%. And you are saying that it would take a drastically incresed bureaucracy to do that?
"Someone or some committee has to decide exactly what is 'new' as opposed to 'used' and how does 'income' differ from 'service.' The current IRS and state tax guidelines could be expanded to do this."
The definition of "new" under the FairTax is "never before taxed". The current IRS and state tax guidelines could not be "expanded", since they would have been repealed.