This is tedious ... and complex. So let's make it simple. Find me an authoritative source that claims that the FairTax will definitively capture transactions from the illegal economy.
Indeed it is and purposefully made more so by some it would seem.
Find me an authoritative source that claims that the FairTax will definitively capture transactions from the illegal economy.
As shown by that very statement. No one that I know has EVER said that dollar would be taxed while it remained underground it WOULD however stand a VERY good chance of being taxed when it emerges from underground with the FairTax unlike today where it is NEVER taxed again.