[Filo]

When you expose a legitimate problem with the FairTax I don't know of a FairTax supporter who would not seek to address it but PLEASE keep in mind that the key word in that sentence is LEGITIMATE.

Perhaps the biggest flaw with the Fair Tax is the fact that it's supporters are both rabid and blind.

The issues I have pointed out are very legitimate. Double taxation on pre-Fair Tax savings and the inability to ensure the death of the 16th Amendment prior to enacting the Fair Tax are both deal breakers in mine and many other's opinions.

The fact that the Fair Tax rate is also obscenely high (in CA I'll be paying a 38.25% exclusive rate on every purchase made) is another problem that needs to be addressed.

Yes, your laundry list is, for the most part, true and reasonable. Yes the current tax system is more flawed. Yes I want to get rid of it. Yes I hope that the transparency of a Fair Tax like system will allow us to start shrinking the government by destroying entitlements (although you seem more than happy to keep them and fund them.)

I will not, however, condone replacing one flawed system with another.

As it stands now the Fair Tax is still flawed and until its advocates recognize that and take steps to correct these flaws the Fair Tax is DOA.

[RobFromGa]

Perhaps the biggest flaw with the Fair Tax is the fact that it's supporters are both rabid and blind.

It's a tragic combination.