Let's see. You could support the Flat Tax IF the SS/MC tax was completely eliminated; yet you now support the FairTax which has the SS/MC tax embeded (buried, hidden) in the rate?
Help me understand your logic?
As I said, you're no doubt beyond help, but the SSMC rates are hardly embedded/buried since they're clearly delineated in the bill.
In the one case, your taxes are taken regardless of your desires, in the other it is your choice to pay them.
Since you seem unble to distinguish, the FairTax is this latter one.
Of course. The Flat Tax being high enough to cover the cost of SS/M without a separate tax is exactly the same as the way the FairTax does it. What is difficult to understand ?
Did you think I said "eliminate the SS/M program" ? No, just the separate tax. Although eliminating the program would be fine with me as well, but that is a different discussion.
Eliminating the SS/M spending boondoggle would let the FairTax rate be 15%, and I'll save for my own retirement.