"....an unproven FairTax plan that is full of obvious holes to describe a system that has allowed our economy to perform as well as it does."
Your bias is pretty blatant in this passage. The "obvious holes" are certainly no more serious than the inefficiencies and inequities of the current system. However, since the economy has managed to survive and, in some ways to thrive, under the current system, those problems are irrelevant in your view of the tax world. You continue to forecast some kind of economic calamity under the FairTax in spite of the mountain of evidence to the contrary.
One other thing exposes your bias. I have read your profile and I respect the compassion that you exhibit toward those who suffer from addiction to alcohol. On the other hand, you have been surprisingly (and inconsistently) indifferent to those whose lives have been turned upside down by an out of control government agency called the IRS. You have casually dismissed the opinions of those posting to the President's Tax Commission, referring to them as "IRS haters". Well, I am an IRS hater also, and a proud one at that. They are the most un-American federal agency in existence today and the closest thing that we have in this country to state sponsored terrorism. The fact that the terrorism is done financially, rather than with bombs, is not IMHO a hugely significant distinguishing feature.
I have known several people who have been put through the ringer for years. Some of these people were ultimately exonerated of any wrongdoing and all back taxes, penalties and interest were erased. However, I am not aware of a single case in which the IRS agreed to reimburse them for substantial amounts of money spent defending themselves, or to issue a public apology as a good faith attempt to help them restore their reputations in their communities. Just try suing the IRS because they shut down your business without substantial proof of any wrongdoing. The fact that you haven't been subjected to that doesn't mean it does not happen, and the fact that you are indifferent to it suggests that either you don't have a soul or you do have a hidden agenda. Given the compassion and empathy that you have displayed in other circumstances, I believe I know which is the case.
Or there could be a third option:
I have looked at the plan and I think it is fatally flawed.
That is the true option.
If I believed any of the FairTax propoganda rather than analyzing it myself, I am one of the people who would pay less in tax under the FairTax. I just don't believe the rate is accurate, and I don't believe that people will cough up $2.5 trillion without a negative effect on consumption, which will cripple our economy as well as tax revenue.
I think I and most productive people would end up with both. And vast segments of our economy wrecked, hurting my business and others. And that is my entire agenda.