[hripka]

It isn't the rate structure or size of the form you fill out that makes an income tax system a nightmare, it Congress' continual dinkering and redefining income to suit the politcal whims all the time and the bureaucracy behind it . . .

And how does the 'FairTax' change this??

[pigdog]

Simple - there are no income tax (or other) forms relating to income that a taxpayer needs to fill out with the FaitrTax and there is only a single rate which affects everyone the same.

Efforts to change that rate or hide preferences in the bill have no "hooks" to be latched onto. The rate is visible to all. Both you and I pay the same rate just as does Bill Gates and Bill Clinton.