The point though is that unless they have some sort of waiver, every roll of toilet paper states buy will cost 23% more. Every pencil, pen etc will be added to the cost of their budgets. Yes, the federalies get this money, but where does the state get it? Do they have to raise taxes in order to be able to procure all these things just to give the money over to the feds?
There has to be a waiver for state spending. It's a non starter without that.
"... every roll of toilet paper states buy will cost 23% more ..."
Obviously you've bought into the Chicken Little nonsense of the FairTax opponents and have not read the paper in the lead-in post ... which clearly shows this to not be to the case as it says in the Abstract and later in the paper:
"Finally, it shows that the FairTax imposes no additional real fiscal burdens on state and local government, notwithstanding the requirement that such governments pay the FairTax when they purchase goods and services."