IMHO, SS, Medicare and the SS Drug plan ought to be privatized -- er, "personalized."
HST, the FairTax leaves SS, Medicare and the SS Drug plan untouched, in respect of payment protocols.
The funding for all three is rolled into the FairTax rate.
To track the benefits an employee is eligible for, one's employer would send a report to the SS Administration reporting said employee's annual FICA wages. That is how it is done now.
I think I also prefer to get govt out of all their "businesses" of perverse incentives outside of the military, treaties and coining the currency.
I also favor a gold standard to fiat.
Just what is it that the states can NOT or should NOT do for themselves??
The Fed's involvement to the large degree it affects state's biz, hampers/dampens state's accountability to it voters IMHO.
Isn't/wasn't that the already reached goal of the socialist/corporatist copycats of the 30's Euro-dictators?
At least then we could vote with our feet as the Founders intended? I dare say the blue states would empty out in a hurry and all the misallocated resources would reallocate where they are treated best.
Just like they derogate "windfall profits" and "gouging", it is plainly the speech of market/economic know-nothings.
Most of here could do a better job than any Dem I've seen, and a bunch of Reps to boot.
If only the whole country would just read Hayek, like my man Ronnie did (and loved), and Thatcher too, we could re-limit the beast back to a constitutional pre-ICC, pre-Fed, pre-New Deal semblance of freedom again.
OT: Ain't it rich that beheadings are shown worlwide to enthuse the base and are cheeered, but a bomb headed Mo-ham-head cartoon is verboten.
Time for some serious vitrification, IMHO, make em glow!