The Fairtax is completely independent of being socialist. It is designed to be revenue neutral, so it does NOTHING to take money away from government. It’s billed to be progressive, with it’s poverty-level prebates and natural inclination to tax people who spend more money, so it doesn’t change the socialist aspect of our tax code.
He has said he wants government to interfere in my life. Whether he wants to spend money to do so or not I can’t say. Socialist may not be the right word. Nanny-stater is probably more accurate.
The Fair Tax leaves open the implementation of an income tax on top of it. It has happened in other countries where they’ve tried it.
That is simply not true.
If you look at the Communist Manifesto (anti-God religious statement):
http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html
There is a list of 10 items which are strongly advocated, #2 and #3 are the very things the Fair Tax is trying to abolish. Consumption/sales taxes are not in the list.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
The core of socialism is taxing work/productivity and inheritance, the Fair Tax gets rid of them both. Libertarians argue that sales/consumption taxes are ‘more just’ because they are voluntary.