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I've said it before that what we need is a flat tax. The Fair Tax agenda is too controversial and a bigger step than most are probably willing to take.

Getting 100% of your paycheck is too controversial? Eliminating the oppressive IRS is too controversial? If those are the criteria for being controversial then I'm the most controversial person you'll ever meet! It's only controversial if not enough people don't support the Fair Tax. Given the momentum that is becoming less likely.

Getting 100% of your paycheck is too controversial? Eliminating the oppressive IRS is too controversial? If those are the criteria for being controversial then I'm the most controversial person you'll ever meet! It's only controversial if not enough people don't support the Fair Tax. Given the momentum that is becoming less likely.

The first step to pushing a fairtax, is to overcome the fact, that yes, it is very controversial, and its an idea that is very easy to be slandered and miseducated on.

One senator (Jim Demint, I think), early on in his campaign pushed it, and started dropping in the polls, he switched tracks, and started gaining.

Educate folks on the fairtax, and move incrementaly, at one time social security was the 3rd rail, now its safe to push it as more and more people learn about it.

It can't happen overnite but it can happen, but to deny its controversial is simply innaccurate, but then again, at one time Goldwaters ideas were very controversial......and we wound up with President Reagan....eventually.

Getting 100% of your paycheck is too controversial?
It's the 100% paycheck AND 20% price reductions that's not only controversial, it's a lie.

The Fairtax rate "shall be that sales tax rate which is necessary to raise the same amount of revenue that would have been raised by imposing a 12.4 percent tax on the Social Security wage base (including self-employment income)---

Plus, The Fairtax rate " shall be that sales tax rate which is necessary to raise the same amount of revenue that would have been raised by imposing a 2.9 percent tax on the Social Security wage base (including self-employment income)"

That's 15.3% of the Social Security wage base included in the Fairtax rate....So why is the Fairtax definition of 100% paycheck only 7.65% of the Social Security wage base? How is that a "Fairtax"?