I understand the critical difference between a VAT and the Fair Tax.
It is YOU who misunderstands the dynamics of liberals and taxes. The Tax reform Act of 1986 was supposed to permanently lock the income tax rates into 3 levels (17%, 28% and 31%) in exchange for many write-offs being eliminated.
That lasted no longer than the first year of the Clinton term.
Enact your Fair Tax and within one-year of a liberal in the White House with liberal majorities on the Hill and the Fair tax gets all the bells and whistles you so wonderfully point out are the hall marks of a VAT.
Either you believe liberal will never touch your Sainted Fair Tax and resist their very nature to expand it into a monster - OR you don’t.
Was is so hard to understand about that? The Fair Tax is just the tool liberals need to create a nationwide VAT.
Bees buzz - Birds chirp - liberals expand and increase taxes. It’s what they do!
I understand liberals and taxes and their love affair with class warfare. The Fair Tax wipes the slate clean. If we subsequently allow liberals, Communists, Republicans, Greens, Constitutionalists, Libertarians, Democrats or any other flavor of politician that happens to get elected to use the tax code as a social engineering tool, shame on us.
Are we impotent? Did we not defeat the amnesty bill? Why do you attribute unbridled power to members of Congress? Do they not answer to us?