I have not read anything to the contrary in the Fair Tax proposal regarding repealing the 16th amendment, and just wanted to make the point, as I have read a few references to it in the thread. Although, I don’t think that the 16th amendment really affects the proposal in that the right or the power to “lay and collect taxes on income without census or enumeration”, as Congress could simply choose not to lay tax on income voluntarily. However, I do believe when abolishing the payroll tax system and getting into social security reform issues, the proposal opens up a whole new set of problems not needing to be addressed by tax reform. I think these types of threads are particularly useful in getting out information on the various reforms that are out there, such as Fair Tax, NRST, flat tax, and even possibly APT, and what similarities or differences there may be.
Go here and read:
http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_faq_answers#38
and here:
http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_faq_answers#50
Of course enforcement problems regarding social security reporting and tax collection will persist under the FairTax just as they do now under the Income tax but any comparative analysis of the two systems will conclude that problems emerging under the FairTax are much more maneagable. More discussion on this is found here:
http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_faq_answers#8