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I repeat: Precisely how long do you think your flat INCOME tax would remain flat?? I'll bet less time than the FIRST one stayed flat.

How long do you think your sales tax will go without exemptions or new excises on say SUV's, excessive energy consumption, you name the evil?

Come to think of it, the "fairtax" creates a NEW excise tax bureau.

SEC. 302. ADMINISTRATION OF OTHER FEDERAL TAXES.

(a) IN GENERAL- Section 7801 (relating to the authority of the Department of the Treasury) is amended by adding at the end the following:

`(d) EXCISE TAX BUREAU- There shall be in the Department of the Treasury an Excise Tax Bureau to administer those excise taxes not administered by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

Jeezzz, and the CURRENT system isn't being manipulated by the political ruling class to modify our behavior, punish their enemies and reward their friends?? That's how the damn thing grew to over 20,000 pages. Jefferson warned us that the price of liberty is ETERNAL vigilance. Eternal is like a really long time. We've slept on the rights the Founders TRIED to leave us and have, consequently, lost many of them. The FairTax or ANY tax reform won't -- indeed CANNOT -- solve THAT problem. What it WILL do is get the tax collector at least one level out of our PERSONAL lives where he had no business in the first place.

And that "new" bureaucracy is to REPLACE (look it up!) the current IRS. Under the NRST, the present IRS would be disbanded and a new, much smaller NRST collection office would be established directly under the Secretary of Treasury. Since this new agency will NOT have to deal with 100 million individual taxpayers and 20 million businesses but only with the 45 to 50 state collection agencies, the entire federal end could be run by a few hundred folks. It might take perhaps 200 field agents (4 per state) to work with the state revenue offices to be certain they aren’t cooking the books or playing games with the fed’s piece of the action + additional for those non-sales tax states foolhardy enough to allow the feds to have their way with their businessmen. Perhaps another 100 more in the main office to run the computers and post deposits, make coffee, run out for the donuts, etc.

They WERE going to call this "NEW" bureaucracy "RAPLH" but settled on something a bit more descriptive of its activities.