[Man50D]

Isn’t the Fair Tax a scheme to keep feeding the federal monster in a more efficient manner.

On the contrary. The Fair Tax is a plan to decentralize government power by giving people the choice of how often and how much they are taxed instead of a system that takes money from paychecks before anyone sees their hard earned money.

Not an expert on this tax so I may be mistaken, but don’t proponents brag that it will take just as much money from Americans as current rapacious system.

The important difference is how the tax is collected. Taxing consumption puts government largess in check. Creating too high a rate on consumption will result in a corresponding decrease in purchases thereby reducing the amount of tax collected. Less tax collected will mean less money for Congress critters to spend.

Our problem is that today’s “conservatives” are to the left of yesterday’s liberals.

Our problem is people have been hooked onto an increasingly oppressive tax system(since 1913)so long they can't see how it is stealing their freedom and therefore prefer to hang onto the socialist status quo.

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I get to choose how often I will be taxed. Sure, if I don’t want to spend MY money the way I choose on things that I want, then I won’t be tax. This is freedom?! You brag about this?
This scheme under the Orwellian banner of “Fair Tax” allows the federal monster to continue it’s inexorable growth. Take an ax to this behemoth, reducing it to its CONSTITUTIONAL size and it won’t much matter what tax system we use. Until we address this nothing will change.