[lucysmom]

Please explain the unintended consequences you allude to so that we may attempt to grasp what only you have imagined.

I have, increase in black market activity.

I am flattered that you think I am the only one to imagine that, but alas, other critics have imagined the same thing.

You may be interested in reading this brief overview of the chain of unintended consequences prop 13 unleashed in California.

http://www.fresnobee.com/columnists/walters/story/12347574p-13077965c.html

Perhaps you will be inspired to put on your thinking cap and imagine what unintended consequences the FairTax might have.

Please note; your perceived consequences must be minimal or nonexistent within the current system to hold any weight against abolishing the current system.

That's just plain goofy! Two wrongs don't make a right. Haven't you heard?

[pigdog]

Be sure and post the links showing the intended consequences since these were more beneficial that the other kind.

And also, be sure to tell us why property taxes in CA 30 years ago are somehow applicable to today.

Increase in black market activity ... ohhhhh - scary! How about some specifics as to how this would operate under the FairTax. And I don't mean your usual nonsense, but some genuine details which you've never put forth.

[higgmeister]

That's just plain goofy!

It's not goofy if you take a tally board and post all of the points pro or con. You would realize that the posibility of Black-market fraud that could occur with the fair tax could never catch up to the vast illegal tax fraud and Black-market traffic in untaxed goods that exists with the current system. Have you ever heard of the BATF.

The other aspect of the Black-market you refuse to acknowledge is the fact that currently ill gotten gains are not taxed at all for any crime. With the Fair Tax they would be taxed when the criminal or his wife or other family members make a purchase. The Fair Tax has a much greater likelihood of taxing the underground economy.

[higgmeister]

You may be interested in reading this brief overview of the chain of unintended consequences prop 13 unleashed in California

I saw nothing about the consequences of Prop. 13 but everything about modern-day liberal lawmakers and government school trade-unionists feeding Big Government Socialism on the backs of individuals' productivity.

Anyone with half-a-lick-of-sense would not blame Proposition 13 for the excesses of big government. The excesses that exist now would have occurred without Proposition 13.