[xzins]

tax freedom day for the average american is about the end of April.

[Mojave]

April is in the last six months of the year on your calendar?

[RobFromGa]

Almost half of all Americans are through by mid-January. The FairTax is not designed to reduce the amount they take from us, it actually causes them to have to increase the amount they take from us by adding the socialist prebate which is the largest entitlement yet dreamed up. In addition, since everything that the government buys will have the FairTax added to it, including salaries and benefits (except some education employees), that means the size of government will grow about another 20% just to buy the same stuff they currently buy.

On the spending side of the equation, where our real problems lie, the FairTax does nothing to fix the entitlement bloat, except to remove the link between working and collecting. Once the FairTax is collected on purchases and not income, then everyone will be equally entitled to be a recipient of Soc Sec and Medicare.

The FairTax is all bluster and smoke and mirrors, it doesn't do what you think it will do.

And the final kicker is that the exclusive FairTax rate will have to be closer to 50% rather than the 30% they are touting.