“Tax COLLECTION is not the problem. Spending is the problem.”
I agree and I would also agree that the fairtax does absolutely nothing in itself to address spending. That said, I like that it would hit every voter in the head with every purchase the cost of government. It would bring the cost of government to the forefront of visibility. As things are now, so many people have no idea of the taxes they actually pay. There is no accontability because the true cost of government is hidden beneath multiple layers of nonsense.
By giving the electorate a clear vision of the cost of government spending, I’d wager that spending reductions would be demanded by the large majority of voters.
How do you get the majority to support spending reductions when they don’t see the effect of that spending?
But if congress is still spending and part of that spending is hidden from the tax payer by borrowing (say spending at 23% of GDP but only taxing at 19% GDP), then the tax payer STILL will not see the cost of government.