You guys might want to check out this article.
Do you have a link for this?
"People's Republic" = Totalitarian state
"Fair Tax" = National Sales Tax
Why don't we leave misleading labeling to the left?
Who is the "American Constitutional Research Service"?
What is the point of your apparently pointless drivel??
...It is a signal advantage of taxes on articles of consumption, that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit; which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end proposed, that is, an extension of the revenue. When applied to this object, the saying is as just as it is witty, that, ``in political arithmetic, two and two do not always make four .'' If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds. This forms a complete barrier against any material oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself a natural limitation of the power of imposing them.
Impositions of this kind usually fall under the denomination of indirect taxes, and must for a long time constitute the chief part of the revenue raised in this country. ...
The FairTax makes the consumption tax a direct tax nationally. I see that as superior to a direct income tax or any indirect (hidden) tax.
And as a side note, it looks like the Laffer curve should be renamed the Hamilton curve.: If duties are too high...the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds.