Ok, ok, you asked for it.What exactly do you thing you are illustrating here? You claimed "I seem to recall someone swearing his allegiance to the flat tax, only to have his prior posts extolling the virtues of the VAT pointed out" and the post you copied has nothing to do with that.
The FairTax is replacement, not reform. It replaces federal income taxes including, personal, estate, gift, capital gains, alternative minimum, Social Security, Medicare, self-employment, and corporate taxes.