[Hostage]

If you think of yourself so highly that you hold ‘your amendment’ to be ‘good’ in the face of zero support, and that zero support by others must be because they do not recognize your ‘good’ amendment, then you are delusional.

The FairTax is not going to get 100% following but it has a large and growing following of people that are not delusional and can see the myriad benefits and advantages of the FairTax.

The FairTax is not complex, the Rebate is not complex. The legislation is only 133 pages long. It is amazingly simple in its design and it is by far the most fair and most supported tax reform in the nation today.

The Flat tax has about 6 sponsors to the FairTax’s 55. Those sponsors have staffs and constituents with professional training in law, taxation and business. They are capable of understanding how important the FairTax is.

[OneWingedShark]

If you think of yourself so highly that you hold ‘your amendment’ to be ‘good’ in the face of zero support, and that zero support by others must be because they do not recognize your ‘good’ amendment, then you are delusional.

I didn't say that; I said that 'support' is not necessarily indicative of 'good'.
As a real-life example consider the C-style languages; they are incredibly popular, yet suffer from easily avoidable pitfalls:

1. Dangling-else
   Does if a then if b then s else s2 mean if a then (if b then s) else s2 or if a then (if b then s else s2)?
   It's a completely avoidable problem, by simply requiring an end-if token.
2. Assignment operator
   In all of the rest of life A = 1 is an assertion that A really is 1; in C-style languages this means 1 is assigned to a (and that value returned)
3. if statement conditional check.
   In C and C++ the if statement operates on an integer, namely it is selected if the value is non-zero and not-selected otherwise (meaning it will take an else-branch, if present).
4. The previous two points combine to allow this monstrosity:
   

   if (a = 1)

   this will always assign 1 to a, and then select the if-statement (because 1 is non-zero). This is really insidious and can cause even very experienced C/C++ programmers to spend hours hunting for the bug.
5. Array-accessing
   C, C++, & PHP all do not check bounds of arrays, this is the main source of buffer overrun errors (a security concern). There are numerous languages which will check the bounds, some that can do enough analysis to remove the run-time check altogether.

These are simple things that can be completely avoided, sometimes in the design of the language's syntax!
Yet despite being not-good, C-style languages are still popular.

The FairTax is not going to get 100% following but it has a large and growing following of people that are not delusional and can see the myriad benefits and advantages of the FairTax.

Ok.

The FairTax is not complex, the Rebate is not complex. The legislation is only 133 pages long. It is amazingly simple in its design and it is by far the most fair and most supported tax reform in the nation today.

I said that it was too complex for what needed to be done: look at my proposal: less than a single page! How's that for amazingly simple?

The Flat tax has about 6 sponsors to the FairTax’s 55. Those sponsors have staffs and constituents with professional training in law, taxation and business. They are capable of understanding how important the FairTax is.

And I, for one, am not convinced. I believe it to be unnecessarily complex.