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Okay. I just don't buy into it. The government is never going to relinquish its taxing authority. At 46 years old now I've never seen the gubmint refuse a buck. It is exactly what many of us young conservatives in the 70's said it would become.

They are seizing old peoples' homes here in PA for unpaid property taxes. (They've doubled in some instances in this last year). I believe the same mentality that is capable of atrocities like that wouldn't hesitate to lie and revive the income tax.

"The government is never going to relinquish its taxing authority."

Of course it isn't ... nor should it since that's written into the Constitution. What can and will happen though is that the Congress will listen to we the people and, once they realize we want it, change their taxing authority to comply with the FairTax which has the very fine benefits of helping most taxpayers and the country as a whole by boosting the economy.

Congress will only do what the voters allow them to do. If we allow them to commit the sort of "atrocities" you mention it's our own fault. With the FairTax there's a good start since the income tax, the tax code, the tax workers (the IRS) are eliminated and the tax records are required to be destroyed. In addition the bill calls for the 16th amendment to be repealed. If that's not a kick in the teeth of the atrocities you mention, I don't know what might be.

Your complaint is with politicians, not the FT.

Anything, well almost anything, that replaces a tax code that punishes achievement, demands reports on almost every aspect of ones life, is so complicated that the IRS refuses to stand behind its own answers to tax payer questions, that rewards some activities and punishes others, that pretends to tax the rich while creating vehicles by which the rich escape the taxes but the middle class can't, that is 60,000+ pages long, and on and on, is well worth serious consideration.

Okay. I just don't buy into it. The government is never going to relinquish its taxing authority.

I can appreciate your skepticism however the government wouldn't be relinquishing its power to tax with The Fair Tax. It would merely change its method of taxation from income to consumption.

They are seizing old peoples' homes here in PA for unpaid property taxes. (They've doubled in some instances in this last year).

That would happen with any tax system if people don't pay taxes but it will probably happen less with The Fair Tax since taxpayers will have more power to decide when and how much they will be taxed.

I believe the same mentality that is capable of atrocities like that wouldn't hesitate to lie and revive the income tax.

If by relive the income tax you mean eventually have an income tax again in addition to a consumption tax consider Congress could have implemented a national sales tax along with our current income tax a long time ago but they new doing so would have brought the wrath of the their constituents down on them to the point where Congress critters would have lost their jobs.

I recommend you visit The Fair Tax website at the link of above for more information.