[higgmeister]

Nice try though.

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Turbopilot on Post 292 said:     "Generally what they want to debate is something like a 40% VAT on top of the existing income tax."

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RobFromGA responded on Post 293:     "You have no idea what you are talking about. How long have you been posting to FairTax threads? I have never seen the discussion you are describing on a single one."

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RobFromGA then said on Post 298:     "The FairTax in my opinion, which I have described in detail throughout many threads, will not be able to generate this amount of revenue and will need to be much higher than advertised. This loss of revenue will cause panic, and the politicians will have to fall back on something that they know works to collect the revenue to keep the old people and orphans from starving and to ensure the Assistant Undersecratary for Feminine Napkin Procurement and his family are able to get their paycheck."

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will not...generate...revenue and will need to be much higher ₌ something like a 40% VAT politicians will ... fall back on something that they know works to collect the revenue ₌ the existing income tax.

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In effect, Rob said the same thing that he told Turbopilot that nobody ever said.

It happens over and over, that Pro-IRS fans will say that the FairTax rate has to be much higher to collect the revenue. Then, that it still will not work and the Evil politicians will pass a Twenty-eighth Amendment to bring back the IRS and income tax in addition to a keeping he failed Mega-Sales Tax, in effect having both King Kong and Godzilla preying on starving Americans.

[lewislynn]

It happens over and over, that Pro-IRS fans will say that the FairTax rate has to be much higher to collect the revenue.

That's because it's true.

Being opposed to one bad idea doesn't make you a cheerleader for the other...grow up.

[lewislynn]

In effect, Rob said the same thing that he told Turbopilot that nobody ever said.

Only in your mind.

[Turbopilot]

I’m impressed that an almost week-old thread is still generating a healthy rate of reply. Unfortunately, it looks like the “antis” have moved from demolishing their own strawmen to picking the tiniest of nits and believing that they have successfully argued against the entire FairTax.

It takes about five minutes of thought to come up with counterarguments to the worries about supposed double taxation of savings and about reimbursing businesses for tax paid on items used for business. Arguing that these problems mean the entire FairTax should be ignored is the very definition of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, which is unfortunately a far too common theme with the antis.