And probably the #1 reason for the Fair Tax...
survey says...
The government no longer has the need or the right to know anything about your income. How you made it?, Who paid you?, What you did?, etc...
We need to get the government out of our lives. Does anyone actually trust the government anymore? You know how you restore trust? You remove the opportunity for them to violate your trust.
A flat tax, etc would require you still to identify your sources of income, etc...there is no need for the government to know any of that.
Freedom = Government out of your life!
While I am wholly in agreement that government needs to be minding its Constitutionally mandated business--and nothing else, which would immeasurably reduce the tax burden at the Federal Level, I would like for you at consider a couple of things.
It has been asserted that the black market would just go away under the fair tax, but I think just the opposite would happen. Given the opportunity to get 30% off on anything, especially expensive stuff, people will do a lot to get around paying that extra money. They drive miles out of their way to buy tobacco on Indian Reservations now to avoid tobacco taxes, so I'd reasonably assume they would do the same for similar savings on other common consumables, from food to toilet paper.
I think that absent enforcement, the black market would blossom.
Which means there would have to be enforcement.
So how would that be done?
You would have to be able to prove every item, or at least an 'average number' of consumable items you purchased had had the fair tax paid on them.
You would have to produce receipts to show you had paid the tax or be subject to prosecution.
Jackbooted thugs could come in with a warrant and riffle through your files, junk drawers, and the like to get the goods on your goods--and do the same to the retail businesses who sold one too many 'demo' automobiles, one too many 'floor sample' sofas as used merchandise.
I don't think for a minute that tens of thousands of Federal enforcers, accountants, and the like are going to go quietly into the night of unemployment. Oh no.
Things would be more invasive as they track your purchases, subpoena your credit card records, inquire as to what you bought when and where and what you paid for it, rummaged through your banking records looking for withdrawals that add up to the cash-under-the-table kickback that got you that dealer demo muscle car for 30% off. Etc. etc.
I think you folks are a little too far out in la-la land on this and I'm trying to get you to wake up and smell the human nature on both sides of the chain link fence.
I'm not having any luck so far, but it is interesting.