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The IRS has extraordinary police and confiscatory powers.

It can paralyze any citizen overnight, right or wrong, and it takes decades to straighten out their wrong decisions.

I cannot fathom why any rational human being would not want to see it gone.

People afraid of starving the federal government of revenue are afraid of freedom.

Try as I might, I do not understand your objections.

I cannot fathom why any rational human being would not want to see it gone.

Because I don't think it would be gone, just renamed.

People afraid of starving the federal government of revenue are afraid of freedom.

The FedGov is not going to allow itself to be starved of revenue, and I am one of the people that they will go after to collect the shortfalls after the FairTax is enacted. They are doing so now, but at least I have an idea of how they are confiscating the money and I can plan for it. Under the FairTax, which won't work, they will come up with new and different rules.

Try as I might, I do not understand your objections.

You probably have a much larger hatred of the IRS than I do, I see them as an enforcement arm with the task of collecting the income tax and catching people who try to cheat, most FairTaxers think it is evil personified.

You probably also haven't really studied the FairTax and how much of what they are selling is pure smoke and mirrors. The 23% FairTax rate which is really 29.87%, which will really be much higher when you factor in government having to pay tax, and evasion, is only one aspect of the smoke and mirrors.

The IRS has extraordinary police and confiscatory powers. It can paralyze any citizen overnight, right or wrong, and it takes decades to straighten out their wrong decisions. I cannot fathom why any rational human being would not want to see it gone.

The way to cheat under the current system is to play games when you record your income and when you fill out your 1040 Form to avoid paying income taxes.

The way to cheat under the Fair Tax is to play games by purchasing goods and services on the black market to avoid paying sales taxes.

Yes, the IRS will be gone.

However, a new Government creature, the Fair Revenue Tax Service (FRTS....Pronounced "Farts") will take its place to ensure that you can prove that everything that you own, from your car to your Fruit-of-the-Loom underwear, was not bought on the black market.

FRTS will have extraordinary police and confiscatory powers. It will be able to paralyze any citizen overnight, right or wrong, and it will take decades to straighten out their wrong decisions.

Meet the new Boss. Same as the old Boss.

"FRTS Police! Show me your papers to prove that you paid Fair Tax when you bought that banjo!"

Try as I might, I do not understand your objections.

LOL! That is because his objections are nothing more than the mad ramblings of a traveling salesman from Georgia who fancies himself smarter than the economists who wrote the paper at the beginning of this thread!