As a result, you spend so much time defending your ego and attacking everyone who dares question the FairTax that you completely lose the thread of substance.
I'm not playing anymore.
If you want to return to substance, fine; I'll be happy to engage. If you want to keep playing "he said ... she said," you're gonna have to play by yourself.
You claim to be "holier than thou" and that I have no interest in the "... substance of debate ..." yet when I give you an extensive description of how cascading embedded taxation works and pose questions to you about it, it is you who attempts the personal put-downs from your perch on high.
You're still doing it.
You've never been able to demonstrate that the embedded tax mechanism works in any way other than as I described it and yet you still pretend (when it suits your purpose) that wages must drop for prices to drop. When called upon your claim that Jorgenson did not say that and that, in fact you agreed that he did not, you attempt to spin yourself out of the trap you placed yourself in.
You, my man, cannot stand up to the debate and you have clearly shown this many times. Other posters will soon find this out about you ... you are not at all interested, as you claim, to want to "... find common ground ..." but merely to attack the FairTax in any manner possible. That Rodney King tactic of "... can't we all just get along ..." has been used many, many times here by FairTax opponents.
If you don't wish to discuss the substance of the debbate about wages and prices and how they are affected by the elimination of income taxes, that's fine with me. Just don't persist with your haughty "I'll tell you everything you need to know" attitude. Most pople read that for exactly what it is - liberal nonsense.
If you wish to not "play" anymore, that's understandable since that is all you have been attempting to do ... seemingly consider it a game to see (with your superior intelligence) how you can fool these dumb Freepers into believing things about the FairTax that are simply not true. When called up short on the tactic, just try to trash the person who does so.
You've never been able to get off of home plate let alone to first base in your attempt to claim that prices will not fall when income taxes are removed unless wages fall - specifically due to business income tax removal and you've never responded to the questions I posed about that. So much for someone "running away" from the substance of the debate.