[Bigun]

As you will no doubt recall, the John Kerry dimocrats have yet to refute a single fact reported in those "swift boat" ads from the last presidential election cycle. They simply attack the messenger relentlessly and their minions in the MSM report on that as if it were a refutation. It is the same here with the anti Fairtax network. They have yet to actually refute any of the scholarly work supporting the FairTax. They simply dismiss it out of hand as "bought and paid for" or "flawed" while never producing any sort of supporting evidence what-so-ever for their position.

Heck! Even the president's tax reform commission refused to evaluate the FairTax bill as it exists but instead came up with a construct of their own to shoot down.

[Hostage]

And those aligned against the FairTax such as certain persons in Treasury refuse to show their data or discuss their analysis methods. They know their analysis methods are flawed.

They claim the micro-datasets used for analysis must be protected for taxpayer privacy yet they could easily scrub identifying information and release their data as is normally done in the process of secondary analysis. Off the record their analysts have admitted they are hiding and avoiding challenges because of politics.

That situation will not last too much longer as the delays are not going to be tolerated by Congress.