[pigdog]

... and your case rest very uneasily inceed since the sales tax of 6% you cite is YOUR tax and the business merele collects and forwards it to the state (though at present they are not paid to do so but must bvear that cost themselves ... an unfunded mandate). Under the FairTax, there ARE no nufunded mandates and the merchant collecting and forwarding the tax is paid to do so.

Your attempt at derision fails also since he lawyer in your bogus example is paying his own taxes and not just forwarding the illegal guy's taxes to the government as in your sales tax example. And your "no tax" example is meaningless, too, since the most likely result would be for the lawyer's fee to DROP with the removal of taxes - just as will happen with the embedded taxes we've been talking about to help reduce prices under the FairTax - and increase the taxpayer's purchasing power,

Now answer the question I just posed to you in #1136!!!

[robertpaulsen]

"Your attempt at derision fails also since he lawyer in your bogus example is paying his own taxes"

Where did he get the money to pay those taxes? Didn't that money come from the drug dealer?