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In my last post to you, I mentioned trying to keep this thread out of the backroom..

Your 'football terms' post is proof positive that you've been reduced to spamming the thread. -- Thanks..

You claimed previously:

The FairTax would create an entirely new government entitlement program-- the prebate.

No, as it's not an entitlement.. The big difference is that every citizen would get a rebate for taxes paid on ordinary living expenses on food/shelter, etc...

I have given my thoughts on what should be done to cleanup the present system. Just because I don't think potentially blowing up the greatest eceonmic engine the world has ever seen is a great idea does not make me an enemy of tax reform...

Your typical 'blowing up' hype, along with football metaphors, as above, pretty well tell the tale of what you see as an enemy..

You'll have to come up with a better argument than that, and you could start by showing how the FairTax flaws I commented on above are incorrect.

I'll grant that the proposed fairtax has many flaws.. Will you admit that you exaggerate those flaws? -- And, - that you haven't really told us what is the basis for your opposition to cleaning up the income tax/SS withholding mess?

I have no idea why this thread got moved to the SBR, and my football post is not spamming the thread. I was rebutting points and adding some humor at the same time. So, your attempt to link the two things is illogical and laughable. If you want to know why the thread was moved, you should ask the moderators, I am not a moderator, and I don't know when they moved it.

The prebate is not a return of taxes paid, it is a no-strings-attached entitlement payment that would quickly be modified with social engineering to means-test, etc in vote-buying attempts.

I am not intentionally exaggerating the flaws of the FairTax. I think that it would seriously affect consumption, and therefore the ability to collect the tax. resulting in higher tax rates and then an income tax on top of the consumption tax. I do believe that.

And I do believe that a tax rate of 50% (exclusive) is closer to the truth than the 29.87% sales tax rate calculated by the FairTaxers.

And I have said what my opposition is in very plain terms, I think that what we are doing now is working and has created something that is the envy of the world. So, I don't believe russian roulette with our economy is a great idea.

The plan is fatally flawed.