This tax is no more fair than the one we have now, esp. for those people who have played by the rules and organized their financial lives in such a way to be optimal with the present system.
but but but the current system encourages families, and encourages people to give their money to charity when they die... we can't have the gov performing such liberal social engineering...
"Just because they had a focus group of Kool-Aid drinkers to come up with a neat marketing name doesn't make that name indicative of anything."
Another misleading SQL assertion. The focus groupS were held before there was a FairTax proposal. Therefore, if the randomly selected members were drinking any "Kool-aid", it wasn't FairTax Kool-aid. The "neat marketing name" was thus the result of a concerted effort to find out what the American people wanted in a tax system and BTW, what they wanted to call that tax system. Obviously, that approach is problematic for many SQLs who don't think the American people should have any sayso in the manner in which they are taxed.
"This tax is no more fair than the one we have now, esp. for those people who have played by the rules and organized their financial lives in such a way to be optimal with the present system."
Would "those people who have played by the rules and organized their financial lives in such a way to be optimal with the current system" include illegal immigrants? Certainly they are optimizing the current system! We certainly wouldn't want to eliminate the preference that they have, would we?