[pigdog]

There is nothing at all in the Tax Panel report to indicate very much of the methodology they used and even the facts of the purposeful base shrinking (and old Bill Gale tactic) or ballooning evasion rates when, if anything, the opposite is true, nor are any of the other assumptions inimical to the FairTax are shown in any forthright way but must be dug out of the dozen or so chapters (plus intro and appendix). A classic propaganda tactic.

The FairTax studies, OTOH, are generally very careful to cite assumptions and sources and so are better done by far since they are meant for public debate (the Panel report is not - it's an inside the Beltway con job directed at politicos). You'll find many of he pols who wish to oppose the FairTax will cite this report (regardless of its serious flaws) to their constituents as justification for not supporting the FairTax. That's a false justification if ever there were one.

[Always Right]

The FairTax studies, OTOH, are generally very careful to cite assumptions

LOL, really. That is why it took the AFFT some 10 years to find out that their Jorgenson studies assumed that workers take home pay will stay constant. AFFT lied about that for a long long long time. The fairtax organization with their paid for whores, I mean 'economists', are very shady with their studies.