As you have been told many many times already it isn’t just the taxes alone that get passed along but ALL the costs associated with those taxes as well. Every set of hands that touch the production of anything in this country today incurs those costs and they ALL wind up in the prices of goods and services sold at retail.
Gosh, I'm told my car is warming the planet, loads of times. Guess I should believe them too. Or all we have to do is hug those suicide bombers and they'll understand us. Or that the tooth fairy will be by with some coins for my pillow.
Tell me whatever you want; would be nice if you'd offer some form of reasonable evidence to support your conclusion. Because no economist anymore will stand up and continue this fiction. This is a thoughtful forum, where people actually communicate, not dictate 'you will think this way.' I challenge your conclusion - mine's easy to prove or disprove - there are well over 22 million small businesses across this nation, you can walk into any of them and talk to the owner, tell them how you're curious about this new fair tax thing, and get some rough numbers from them.
Almost every large corporation has publicly published gross sales, gross profit, net profit and gross taxes numbers that you can download from almost any financial site and go over yourself. Do not come up with the fiction that paperwork costs will be eliminated - there is a higher paperwork requirement in the FairTax plan, affecting tens of millions of people who will go from filing a yearly return to a monthly return.
We live in a very interesting time - the number of steps between the retailer and the factory floor is at an all-time low. It is why we, as an economy, are so efficient, vs most other nations. Enough with the propaganda.