Check out the fairtax website. You misconceptions about how it works will be cleared up pretty quickly. The Fairtax has no deductions because you no one pays income taxes. Check out the site, or better yet, read the book. It is pretty interesting and you will find both Boortz and Linder's take on taxes both coherent and eye opening.
I just got done reading the WSJ article about the tax reform committee. They said that neither a VAT or an NRST would work because they are "too complex". Are you freakin' kidding me? Compared to the convoluted cluster f*%# of a tax code we have now, the fairtax is like Dick and Jane. I am more and more convinced that our "representatives", both Repub and 'rat, will never allow a real reform of the tax code that would divest them of some of their precious power over the taxpaying serfs that feed the big bloated beast of government. While I support the NRST, I certainly would not mind the flat tax (as long as withholding was eliminated). Someone needs to do something. Clearly those in the Congress don't think the folks who pay the bills should have any say in it, though.