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What stops the rates from going sky high now?
THE TAXPAYER. Only this time, everyone is paying taxes.

Yeah, but in this new era of Disunited we Stand to take Anything we can Get from the Other, how do you REALLY see that working?

There will be NO OBSTACLE to (just like in the Fair Tax prebate) gerrymandering offsets and credits to the poor and needy and unemployed and every other interest group, and so on.

So, sure. Everyone pays the same. But condoms for gays and lesbians? They're on the exemption list. School lunches? Exempt. Subsidized exempt gasoline cards for working single-mothers? That's just "Common Sense Tax Reform!"

This is one of the problems I have withe the plan also, that while it would be hard for congress to raise rates (imho, because they are so visible), it would be easy for congress to start creating exemptions (to both the income tax and sales tax) as payback for politiccal favors.

The only problem with that objection though, is congress does that today with the current system. It's like saying you don't want to risk going out in the doctor, because it's cold outside and you're worried your toes will become frostbitten, even though your toes are forstbitten right now, and the only way to cure them is to go to the doctor!

Basicly, you're accepting a bad situation, because trying to make things better might put in the exact same bad situation you are right now.