[avacado]

--- You cut off your reading a bit too early. There is a large exemption for the first X dollars of purchases, thus making the tax progressive.---

No, I read that long ago. I have been over and over the Fair Tax issue. What you mention above is called a kluge. It's a hap-hazard fix to a broken REGRESSIVE taxing system.

[cinives]

It's a semantics issue - by definition, any flat tax is a regressive tax.

So what ? Make more money or spend less. Those who defend progressive taxes are simply jealous and promote class envy.

Look at it a different way. If a person making $200,000 buys a $20000 car and a person making $100,000 buys a $10,000 car, doesn't the lower income person pay the same tax under the flat tax proposal ?

Message being, if the less wealthy folks stop trying to keep up with the wealthier Joneses and instead live within their means, their taxes won't be recessive.