Yep, all the 15% bracket folks hire nannies, housecleaners and gardners.
Yep, all contractors paying an illegal workforce are only paying 14% in income tax.
Yep, nobody will steal goods or attempt to black market goods under the FairTax ... it wouldn't be "fair."
Yep. Drug dealers are very careful about the money they steal ... they only steal money that was completely untaxed.
Like I said, you really have no grasp of what you are talking about.
Sorry Dimp - it's you who have marginalized yourself WAY to the left by trying to pretend that the present illegal economy gets only after-tax money.
As has been pointed out, that's clearly not the case and continuing to insist that is so merely makes you look even more foolish.
And it's not the drug dealer who steals the money, but many of his curtomers since many drug purchases are made with stolen money.
In fact quite a few taxpayers in the 15% and under tax bracket (and some "taxpayers" who pay not tax at all) DO hire illegals for various tasks . I personally know many where I work that fit that 15% and under category and pay with after-tax dollars (and in some cases, untaxed dollars) for help from the illegal economy. Perhaps the neato little dream world you live in doesn't allow that to happen, but it goes on a lot in the real world.
You obviously have no idea how large the illegal economy is or - apparently - why it is called that. There are a lot of those in the building/contracting trades (probably including some on this thread) as well as others who deal in cash payments to workers and thereby participate in the illegal economy. I doubt they'll jump right up on this thread, though, and say "... yeah, I do that ...".
Most of the estimates I've seen of the illegal economy place it at $1 Trillion or more - much of it untaxed despite your polite little Happy-Faced Liberal notion of having only after-tax dollars involved. That's patently ludicrous.