Well, s-test, if you're so "not in love" with the present tax system and only so intellectually pure as to wish to have all those "nasty FairTax" lies exposed, I've a sggestion for you. Your #340 "exposes" nothing but your bias against the FairTax and its supporters, but if you really are so "pure" ...
Identify, specifically, what you think are the lies and then show us how the non-FairTax tax plan you prefer (a real one, please) corrects that and in addition how it improves the economy of the country.
1. The idiotic idea that you can raise money by taxing government expenditures. This is just a trick to make the fairtax rate lower than it really needs to be.
2. The idea that you can add money to everyone's paycheck and have prices come down. Although most fairtaxers are backing off this, you aren't.
3. Your gross exagerations of compliance costs of the current system and your underestimation of the costs of enforcing a sales tax that includes a monthly rebate check to every household in this country.
4. Statements about taxing the underground economy are just false.
5. The denial that people who have already saved after tax money under the current system, will now have to pay taxes on that money again. The fact is, people with savings will see the buying power of those savings reduced.
I see the problem as different than you. The biggest problem is not how we collect taxes, that is just a symptom. The real problem is the amount of taxes we collect. Any system that collects $2 Trillion in taxes has to be intrusive. The real solution is to make our government spend less and thus need to collect less money.
I would lay off these threads if the arguements were honest. But I am not laying off as long as snake oil is being pushed. There are legitimate advantages to the fairtax, but there are also real disadvantages that you guys want to brush off and not admit.