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You still haven't defined what you mean by "the black market" nor posted any sort of definitive information about it so that no one - you included - has any idea what you're talking about.

I posted three conditions that give rise to black market activity and an example of each.

There is little definitive information on the black market because black market operators don't supply data,'cause, see, their businesses exist outside the law.

"According to journalist Silja J.A. Talvi, 'no truly accurate statistical study of the black market economy has ever been undertaken' (Talvi, 2003, 4). However, most economists are in accordance over its basic definition, and many have made informed estimates about its size and effects. An underground economy 'mirrors the formal [capitalist] economy in that the goal is to produce and distribute goods and services in order to make a profit' – making the 'legality of one and the illegality of the other' the distinguishing factors (“Socio-economic Factors of the Underground Economy,” n.d., 2)."

You may not know what I'm talking about, but others might.

We all pay at the cash register!

Got it???

The way you mean that presupposes there is no alternative to the cash register.

So IOW, you don't know zip about "black markets" but you're terribly titillated by the term. Instead of all the palaver and BS, how about giving us some detailed, concrete examples of how your black market would work unde the FairTax - and how that differs from the massive evasion that goes on right under your nose today (and the noses of your favorite author, there, too apparently) in the form of the illegal economy which is right now - today larger than any evasion could possibly be under the FairTax.

And once again, I'll have to note this is hardly a fair fight since you haven't read the bill and know nothing about the FairTax ... but ignorance is bliss and since you've had ample opportunities to read it and have not done so so one can only suppose you prefer the ignorance that you continually display.