What's the point?
I mean, sure, I can figure my effective tax rate today. And I can even use your phony table to figure my effective rate under the Fair Tax. So?
What's the price of the bat under the Fair Tax? You don't know. I don't know. Nobody knows.
It is manufactured locally or is it an import? Has the manufacturer reduced his price to the wholesaler? By how much? Has the wholesaler passed that savings (if any) on to the retailer? How much? Has the retailer passed on that savings (if any) to me?
What good is it to know that my effective rate went down 20% if the price I pay for the bat rose 30%?
You're piling assumption upon assumption then concluding mathematically to the thousandths of a percent that I, robertpaulsen, am going to save a gazillion dollars and so is everyone else in America. I DON'T BUY THAT.
And there's nothing "phony" about the FairTax effective tax rate calculator at all since it uses all of the figures from your own situation; take your last year's income tax data and run it through. Since your income would be the same there is no price reduction assumption made - it's as though everything is priced just as it were last year.
Not willing to do that, eh??? RIIGGHHHHT!!! Good bye.