[Dimples]

Yes, he talks in depth about the costs of taxation and government spending. He uses the term "cost" in a much broader context than being used in the discussion of price reduction. For instance, Payne calls "lost economic opportunity" a cost. In an abstract sense, it is. However in the specific sense of dollars spent filling out forms and such, the definition of cost is much more narrow.

Notice his first chapter. This outlines the premise of the book: sending tax money to the gov't so that it can redstribute it in the form of subsidies is wasteful and inefficient.

His book has nothing to do with the FairTax, or sales taxes, per se.

[Bigun]

His book has nothing to do with the FairTax, or sales taxes, per se.

Show me where I ever said it did!

What I HAVE said is that a great many costs (whether or not YOU recognize them as such is irrelevant) imposed on the economy by the current communist inspired income tax system have been identified and, to some extent, quantified and that MOST of those costs would go away with the implementation of the FairTax. I stand by that statement completely!