I would believe that statement if there was evidence that the others were promoting or explaining their tax replacement/reform agenda. I have yet to see any evidence of that. Tidbits are thrown out, but no one is actively defending/explaining any tax reform (other than the fairtax). He who will not be named has repeatedly asked for information on what tax plans people like and he goes unanswered or poorly answered. That leads most to believe that the status quo is favored and the status quo is the income tax/IRS.
Nonsense. Quit lying. The FairTax threads have been around here for at least six years and you can read as many of them as you wish. The FairyTaxers ignore reality; the rationalists refuse to bet the entire US economy on an untried and seemingly stupid idea, especially without an attendant repeal of the 16th Amendment.
Most of us prefer the Flat Tax, especially as it's been tried and works, but it's even more buried than the Fair Tax. Almost all of us prefer that we cut government spending.
And all of us think the NRST is a bad idea in the first place. Ask any economist what a 30% federal sales tax will do to consumer spending... now couple a 30% NRST *WITH* an income tax. It's an economic nightmare.
He who will not be named has repeatedly asked for information on what tax plans people like and he goes unanswered or poorly answered. That leads most to believe that the status quo is favored and the status quo is the income tax/IRS.You're right, the "status quo" is favored (at least by me) over the idiocy of the Fairtax untill something better comes along.
You might find this difficult to understand but none of us that oppose the Fairtax, that I know of, write tax laws, we do however recognize a bad plan once we've studied it.
40 some states have sales taxes that actually work and they're nothing like the Fairtax model, yet "The Fairtax" is the only answer?...BS.