"I don't believe it actually attacks the real problems we face regarding funding the federal government. I believe it's a distraction from the real problems."
That statement is not credible. You have posted how many anti-FairTax posts on how many threads because you think the FairTax is a "distraction"? If it is, it has certainly distracted you from more important things for some time now.
You may want to rethink that statement.
Some of us think that it is important that propaganda be analyzed and evaluated rather than being taken hook, line and sinker. I personally don't think FairTax ever had a chance for many reasons, but when the book came out this brought it to the attention of the general public so it was the right time to study it for me.
In looking at the plan and how it was being represented as a money for nothing scheme for all wage earners, it became obvious that there were big problems with the way the Plan is described.
There have been many people who have made these same points in the past, I have discovered. Most of them realized that it is not possible to actually change the mind of a FairTax fanatic, but at least they were exposing the flaws for those not already programmed.
If I looked at this whole three weeks as an exercise in trying to change the minds of FairTax supporters, then it is an impossible mission. There have been a number convinced, but the die-hards won't even accept the obvious facts.
But there are many lurkers on FR and hopefully they at least see that the Plan is being described wrong by the main proponents. So, at least in my case, I spent the time I did to bring up and investigate this Plan because I felt someone had to do it, and as a small business owner I understand how the present system affects me in great detail.
Daer phil_will1,
"You have posted how many anti-FairTax posts on how many threads because you think the FairTax is a 'distraction'?"
Yup. It distracts from real, and more pressing tax and spending problems and issues, like Social Security privatization, what to do about Medicare, and how to reduce government spending in general.
I spend a lot of my posts trying to relate that message.
And relating that the NRST is flawed if the problem of outsized federal control of GDP is not addressed first.
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