[Your Nightmare]

So what it seems to be saying is the ADL overstated hours by 500% and then Payne extrapulated those numbers higher to get his. To me if someone thinks your numbers are 5 times too high, they are refuting it. But fairtaxers know different, I guess.

And then he took those hours and multiplied them by the average wage of "IRS employees and that of employees at Arthur Andersen, Inc.," or $28.31. And those are 1985 dollars!!

The ADL study is laughably simplistic and what Payne does with the results is just dumb. Any reasonable person could see this - I guess that's why the FairTaxers don't see it.

[pigdog]

Can we assume that you endorse the techniques used by your "respected economist" Mr. Gale in arbitrarily casting out half of Dr. Payne's figures as being a "no-no" as a valid and time-honored economic practice?

Similarly his manipulations in the (non) derivation of the "94% tax" rate???