Certainly. I pay income taxes at the point of a gun. You do too. I don't buy anything at the point of a gun. Neither do you. Nor will we.Really. If you buy something under the FairTax that you should have paid taxes on but didn't, they won't be knocking on your door? You FairTaxers believe in a fairy tales and daydreams.
You really don't get it. When you earn money there is the long arm of the IRS, gun in hand if needed, standing right next to you demanding some of it. If you don't cough up you go to jail. Again at the point of a gun.
Now where again is that gun when you are deciding whether or not to spend money at the store?
Naw! Read the bill. If you have received the legally-reqired receipt you have no liability under the FairTax. The problem then is on the hands of the retailer who has (in the proffered scheme) decided to cheat the state by collecting the tax and not sending it on (all the while being paid to do so) ... isn't that not only illegal on any of several counts but also a tad greedy?
If you don't get a receipt then you are involved potentially since you have participated with the retailer in not paying the tax - I believe they call that "collusion" under the law - but I ain't no barrister. Seems to me, though, that most people (retailer and buyer) would know - deep in their heart or otherwise - that that is quite against the law.
Perhaps what your post is trying to proffer is the idea that those evading the law be allowed to do so? Hmmm!!!