Does anyone wonder why we refer to most critics of the FairTax as SQLs?
A) Because fairytaxers can't make logical arguements?
B) it's because you're juveniles with small minds at work.
C) Because most, if not all, of the FairTax's critics (whether they are honest enough to admit it) want to perpetuate the current dysfunctional system because they have some sort of vested interest in it.
And the correct answer is ....... (I don't even need to tell you, do I?)
Pulling out the old "vested interest" card I see. I thought you were better than that. The people I know who oppose the FairTax mainly oppose it for one of two reasons: they think it looks unworkable and will or might lead to economic crisis, or they have paid income tax all their lives and don't wish to now start paying taxes as they spend the money.
re: "the current dysfunctional system" as you put it: our economic system is the envy of the entire world, and if weren't carrying half the world on our backs with our military and medical infrastructure (think CDC, etc) we would be in even better comparative shape. While the income tax hasn't created that economic miracle, it hasn't prevented it either.
So, "dysfunctional" is a mighty hard word to use when one is proposing an unproven FairTax plan that is full of obvious holes to describe a system that has allowed our economy to perform as well as it does.