"No, I think tax rate reductions, coupled with the removal of death taxes and AMT would accomplish all of these goals."
"I'm not proposing any fix for AMT, and I barely have time to discuss this one obvious fallacy with the FairTax. Just because I know this plan is being misrepresented, doesn't mean I've got to suggest an alternative."
You suggested 3 alternatives to the FairTax, all of which are revenue negative, and all you want to discuss is the "one obvious fallacy" of the FairTax? Must be nice. You don't have to concern yourself with the major economic problems which are exacerbated by our current awful tax system, nor a workable approach to addressing them, you just want to talk about how you disagree with the imbedded tax estimates.
Some of us concern ourselves with solutions and getting something done about a tax system which is a national embarrassment.
You are right- I am not debating the relative merits or other tax plans, or the problems with the current system. I am merely pointing out a serious fallacy in the proposal for a FairTax. I personally find it more useful to try to concentrate on one thing at a time, rather than to get all wrapped up in some other argument, even if that other argument is one worth having at some point. Some of us concern ourselves with solutions and getting something done about a tax system which is a national embarrassment.
Well, I appreciate that you are looking at the overall picture, I really do, and tax policy is in need of action. But this FairTax proposal is an embarrassment too, I am actually shocked that they are this incompetent to let such a glaring mistake stand on the record.
The fact that I do not plan to propose the correct alternative plan, does not mean that I am not allowed to comment on the plan that has been presented, does it?