I think that greater visibility of the tax burden is a good thing (withholding could be the worse thing that hapened to the country), but I can't stomach the BS that is sprayed around by the acolytes of the Fair Tax proposal.
This would be a good place to point out that the federal government today spends far outside and above the enumerated powers delegated to them by the Constitution. I believe they could easily meet all of their real constitutional obligations with a 10% retail tax, max.
However, in a practical sense, you can't even begin to address that problem politically, since most of the tax burden is hidden. The people are fooled. Out of sight, out of mind, and all of that.
So, the first step to putting government back in its rightful constitutional box is to get the tax burden completely out in the open. The NRST is the only tax reform plan that does that. The only one. And the only way you can start is by making it revenue neutral.
Once we implement it, all Americans will then be united in one self-interest: Lowering the rate.
Under the FairTax, we will have the tools we need to restore constitutionally limited government.
Without it, it ain't gonna happen.
While you're at it pittipat, you might read the bill as well as the economic data on the FairTax website since you've never done either.
In the bill you'll notice the t-i number is specified as 23% and that's not an estimate but a specific number in the bill.