[lewislynn]

If people don't acquaint themselves with the tax consequences of their buying habits, they'll make poor decisions. People need to educate themselves.

""People need to educate themselves"...by force of the Fairtax?

That sounds a lot like social engineering. What next? An excise tax on the things YOU don't think people need? (The Fairtax bill creates a new excise tax bureau, what do you they will want to do?)

What happened to everyone's take home is increased, prices about the same as now, a government check every month to cover the tax on your "necessities", more money to save, interest rates reduced 25%, easier to save for that new house?...

How would that acquaint them of the tax consequences of their buying habits...or is all that rhetoric just a lie?

[goldstategop]

Government IS FORCE. Its not gentle. The sooner people digest that lesson, the sooner they'll understand it produces NOTHING. It only TAKES. A consumption tax makes that brutally clear as day.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus