Yes, but there are some real FT nuts out there that won’t listen to reason about it’s chances. I’d love for FT to happen. Problem is why would the 50+ % of asswipes in this country who pay NO taxes at all be interested in something like a ‘fair tax’? No reason whatsoever, period.
I do worry about FT combined with already sky high taxes within my state.
Most of them are here on FR
I am close to one of those a@%wipes you refer to. I don’t pay too much (under 50,000 per year, family of 5 most of those years). I support the fair tax. I know the merits of it, and find it to be the most fair way to get ALL people to pay taxes, including drug dealers, prostitutes, those who live on gambling revenue, royalties and most importantly only pay capital gains.
I support it because I know that if structured properly, just the way I shop (good will, thrift stores, used cars, garage sales) for a great deal of what I already buy, those items won’t be taxed. Food and necessities won’t be either, and since that is pretty much what I can afford to buy, I will be ok.
It would encourage saving and stop this consumerism driven mentality of buying more bigger and better before the old is no good, just for appearence sake, and SS would become irrelevant because of it except for the poorest of the poor, as it was meant to be. Please don’t paint all the poor with one brush stroke.........