[Man50D]

So why not a Flat Tax?

The Fair Tax is a flat tax but on consumption instead of income. One significant difference is the Fair Tax gives people more power and freedom to choose when and how often they are taxed and abolish the increasingly oppressive IRS. Any flat tax on income still takes people's money before they see their first paycheck and maintains the agency that has become more an instrument of control and punishment that for collecting money to fund the government.

Everyone would pay the same.

Everyone will pay only one rate with The Fair Tax.

From what I heard some time ago, if there was a 10% Flat Tax, the Government would have more money than they would know what to do with.

Please cite your sources to support your claim. Even if everyone agreed with your statement it would mean Congress would be taxing the people excessively. The Fair Tax is designed to tax the same amount as is taxed with the income tax and will prevent Congress critters from setting the consumption tax too high.

[RC2]

I heard about the flat tax a long time ago. Don’t remember where it came from. That being said.....what and who sets the limit on the Fair Tax and who decides when and how much to raise it when the government wants more money? The big problem I have with the Fair Tax is big ticket items would cost a fortune. Cars, homes, etc. Would not a Flat tax take into condideration a persons income rather than taxing the poor at the same rate as you do the rich?