"I always assumed that when I paid my taxes that I was paying my share of the cost for government services"
And you never knew how much that amounted to since you didn't know how much you paid in taxes - and that includes hidden taxes, too, Now you'll know.
"Now your telling me that paying my share of taxes isn't enough, that I must also pay additional taxes so that government can pay its share of taxes on what I've already paid taxes for. "
I'm telling you no such thing. Under the FairTax most taxpayers will have a lower effective tax rate than they have had had under the income tax so you'll pay less - not more - and you'll know how much that is since the marginal rate on each receipt will remind you and your effective rate will be much lower unless you're a big blowhard spender like some of the opponents no doubt are.
"But then government doesn't pay taxes, people pay taxes."
I have no argument with that but if you truly believe it then why don't you educate some of your cronies who seen to believe otherwise?
As far as I know, only the FairTaxers believe government can raise revenue by taxing itself.
How do you figure? We have established that hidden taxes will still exist. Who knows, it may prove to be more politic to raise excise and "certain other" taxes than the FairTax.