[pigdog]

"BTW I have read it and heard it all. "

If so, you may have overlooked the part that says:

"`(10) SALES TAX ADMINISTERING AUTHORITY- The term `sales tax administering authority' means--

`(A) the State agency designated to collect and administer the sales tax imposed by this subtitle, in an administering State, or

`(B) the Secretary, in a State that is neither--

`(i) an administering State, nor

`(ii) a State that has elected to have its sales tax administered by an administering State."

Which language shows that the job of administering the FairTax would fall on he states - and they are paid from the tax revenues for doing so (as the paper both defines and accounts for in its math).

And possibly you even missed the first few words of the bill when you read it which are:

"To promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national sales tax to be administered primarily by the States. "

[sausageseller]

And what government agency will see that the states are doing that work correctly. We see how Medicare and Medicaid are done through the states. The fairtax will be the same way. Just another massive fraud and abuse system!

There is massive fraud and abuse under all the state sales tax collection system now. It will be more of the same.

Fairtaxers want to point to written words all the while not wanting to observe what is reality. For one who continually deals with state taxing authorities, the problems they create by their own mistakes is a ongoing problem. These are real time issues not so pie in the sky ideas. For those of us that deal with the problems,adding more for them to do would be down right silly. They, the states, would have absolutely no way of handling it!