[cake_crumb]

"By eliminating embedded taxes, the prices of what you buy after applying the 23% consumption tax would hardly change from current prices"

How does he plan to eliminate state and local sales taxes? There's that little thing called the Constitution.

[SAJ]

Good point, except that this government has routinely ignored — hell, trampled on — the Constitution for at least 7 decades. The Constitution won’t stop this lunatic and mendacious scheme, unfortunately; it’ll have to die under the weight of its own dishonesty.

[Turret Gunner A20]

How does he plan to eliminate state and local sales taxes?

The Fair Tax has NOTHING to do with state and locl taxes.

You might want to go to these sites (starting with the first one), you'll find almost all of your nswers there:

http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_faq

http://denisbider.blogspot.com/2008/01/taxation-in-pictures-why-fairtax-makes.html

http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer

http://www.fairtax.org/site/News2?news_iv_ctrl=1541&page=NewsArticle&id=8248

http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_ask_question about the FairTax

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.25: HR 25