Nonsense. You need to spin it that way because you're losing.
In fact, I’d hazard a guess that you actually profit FRom the current system and would be one of the displaced workers after FairTax becomes law of the land.
Seeing as you're so f*ing lazy you didn't read my FReeper page before guessing, I'll tell you what I do: I gave up a successful engineering career to do something about the environmental movement and the Agenda 21, full time. That was in 1997. Nobody has paid me a dime since. That project included the arduous labor of restoring our 14 acres to a level unprecedented in the science of native plant habitat restoration. As things are now, university professors are coming here to see it and learn.
Your esoteric strawman arguments against the FairTax demonstrate that you are clever and have an inventive mind. If you put it to constructive ends, perhaps you could survive in a FairTax economy!
Besides the engineering degree, I have a degree in economics. I invented the first free market environmental management business method (out of my own pocket) with which to undercut the regulatory racket. If somebody would back me, I could cut the cash flow from carbon trading to Fannie Mae as royalties on the Bartels patent, mine constitutes prior art. So as to getting on your fool's bandwagon, I'm busy cutting the legs out from under this racket.
The Fair Tax is a nice theory. Back in the 80s I supported it. Unfortunately, when the tax on sales rises over 10-15% it becomes a mess because of the enforcement problem. Unless we cut government until that 10-15% on sales cash flow becomes sufficient to run the system (and I mean all of it, State and Federal), the Fare Tax is a disastrous idea. So, contrary to your fantasy, I'm more of a flat tax guy with no deductions, which you would know I said early on this thread...
...had you read it.
Actually, I did read your home page, and did not learn much re: your tax policy beliefs, which is what this thread is about. I did learn that you have had an interesting and varied career.
This post is, unless I missed it, the first I have seen that you are a flat tax advocate.
I’d enjoy reading your explanation of how the flat income tax is superior to the FairTax.