Fairtax is not fair, because too many people won’t pay a dime. National sales tax is fair since all people would pay a share.
The FAIRtax IS a National Retail Sales Tax!
How is it that you came to your conclusion that, under the FAIRtax, “too many people won’t pay a dime?”
Inasmuch as FAIRtax is imposed and collected at the point of final retail sale, every person who purchases NEW goods or pays for services WILL pay the FAIRtax.
The only LEGAL way to avoid the FAIRtax is to purchase used goods. All NEW goods and all services are taxed under the FAIRtax.
If one conspires with a merchant to avoid the tax, both merchant and tax cheater face a tax evasion penalty, not if, but when caught!
Please go to https://www.fairtax.org and read all about the FAIRtax.
The fairtax has as one of its components a mechanism to avoid individuals paying tax instead of buying necessities. It does that by "block-granting" taxes on necessity level spending.
There surely is an argument to be made here - do we want people having to pay tax instead of buy food, medicine, etc? Or do we want to exempt a certain level of spending [the same for everyone]?