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Huck is for the fair tax, thereby pretty much abolishing the IRS to some extent. If that’s the case, then how can he be pro-big government. My best guess is that the fair tax would bring in a comparable amount of money in relation to the existing tax structure. Given that people will pretty much be able to decided, to some extent, how much they pay in taxes, there would be a slight decline in tax revenue for the government. However, since we would be using a fair tax system, the IRS would be obsolete, but there would have to be an establishment, so some extent, to collect the money (although I’m sure this establishment would be far smaller as compared to the IRS), right? That being said, would the government be able to make up the difference for the deficit by abolishing the IRS, thereby giving the government as much money as they have today for big government? Can someone help me on this? I need to lure my dad away from the dark side.

Huck is full of it, first off. He simply latched onto the FairTax idea to find a way to gather votes. His record in Arkansas is one of never seeing a tax hike he didn't like. He may genuinely wish to implement it, but it won't be easy to do and I have reservations about the economic feasibility of it anyway. You can be pro-big government and pro-FairTax anyway, because it is revenue-neutral and doesn't require spending cuts to implement. And it won't "abolish the IRS" because some sort of agency will still be needed to gather, count, collect, and distrbute the FairTax revenue to the government. It might cease to exist as we know it but there still will be one.

“Huck is full of it, first off. He simply latched onto the FairTax idea to find a way to gather votes”

You may be onto something here. How does someone so inclined to spend (and most noteably infatuated with taking money from the public in the form of tax hikes) go from constatly raising taxes to the FairTax scheme? Point being: Huck has shifted from hurting the general public with taxes (at least in Arkansas) to now wanting to help the public with taxes. Didn’t Huck just say something a few days ago about being genuine and sticking to his convictions?