[slowhandluke]

The FairTax would not be a boon to retired people. One of the groups that would fight it the hardest would be the AARP.

This is a non-sequitur. The AARP, like any large beauracracy, fights for itself first. They make big money on insurance and retirement plans, and just don't want the competition.

Like most big beauracracy, they tend to draw liberal apparatchiks for employees. If anything were to be both a boon to the retired, and a detriment to the Democrats, the AARP would be on the side of the Democrats.

So, if one is to argue that something is not a boon to the retired, you need to use some other argument than what the AARP will do.

[Your Nightmare]

So, if one is to argue that something is not a boon to the retired, you need to use some other argument than what the AARP will do.

I did, you just decided to discuss a minor point of what I said.