Can't stand Neil Boortz, really.
But I believe in giving credit where credit is due.
He's exactly right on taxation, unlike yourself and the author of this worthless piece of pro-status quo propaganda.
Like yourself, the writer offers nitpicking around the edges, but not a single convincing argument against the overall concept of replacing income taxation with a national retail sales tax.
My "crux of the problem" problem with FT is it's premise that in order to sustain viability for the low incomed among us, everyone (and I'm not sure that includes the more well-off, either) would receive a rebate equal to the "minimum existence" level, thereby effectively allowing them to pay no taxes at all. That's subsidation just as we have now in the form of EIC payments, FDIC payments, Section 8 rent payments, and on and on and on. This same sort of crap will eventually infiltrate it's way into any FT because those people can still vote.