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the illegal operator pays NO portion of the tax that all legal folks pay - income and payroll taxes.

This statement is clearly false. The drug user, an illegal operator, pays income and payroll taxes from income derived from his legitimate job. Under a sales tax, he escapes the tax completely on his illegal activity.

Sometimes it seems you concede that "Fair Tax" proponents are deceitful when they claim the underground economy would be taxed by a sales tax. It is absolutely clear that the underground economy is not taxed by the "Fair Tax" and any assertion otherwise is made out of ignorance or deceit. One thing is clear though, you seem to have an emotional attachment to the sales tax.

Are you happy with the present system which gives the power and control of taxes to our leaders and allows them to socially engineer people's spending and saving through a complex and voluminous reward/penalty program that seems to only benefit those in the accounting, tax and legal fields or those with enough money to find or pay for the loopholes?

I compare our present tax system to the selective service draft prior to 1973 when there were so many deferments and exemptions for those with the means to use them. Unfair.

I think a Fair Tax like the NRST would be fairer and certainly more efficient than what we have now. Will it be perfect? Of course not. Will it be a vast improvement, IMO yes. A big plus IMO is it will help collect tax money from illegal aliens and lower their net consumption of our tax dollars. Yes there is currently a huge underground economy besides drug dealers that do not pay income tax, but would have to pay a retail sales tax under the NRST.

Sometimes it seems you concede that "Fair Tax" proponents are deceitful when they claim the underground economy would be taxed by a sales tax.

No. False. LIAR.

What I said was that the nrst captures a greater portion of taxes from illegal operators.

I'll type it big to make sure you see it...

CAPTURES A GREATER PORTION OF TAXES

I hope you meant this for another poster and accidentally posted to me, otherwise you're lying.