You do, of course, know that there is nothing preventing Congress from imposing a sales tax on us right now...don't you?
All it would take is a vote in Congress. They have the power to lay and collect taxes per the Constitution.
Of course if the Constitution were amended to make the taxation of any kind of income unconstitutional, then Congress couldn't tax any kind of income without first re-amending the constitution.
Hey- did you know he Fair Tax plan includes an amendment that would make the taxing of any kind of income uncostitutional? Did you know the Fair Tax plan also repeals the 16th amendment?
When the Fair Tax is passed, there will be no more withholding.
When the Fair Tax is passed, there will be no more payroll tax.
When the Fair Tax is passed, there will be no more death tax.
When the Fair Tax is passed, there will be no more marriage penalty.
When the Fair Tax is passed, there will be no more IRS.
When the Fair Tax is passed, there will be no more individual filing tax forms.
When the Fair Tax is passed, there will be no more individuals being harassed, intimidated, and jailed for innocently making errors on arbitrary and pericious IRS rules and laws.
When the Fair Tax is passed, individuals will receive their paycheck free of any federal deductions!
What's the downside?.... you worried we may end up with something as horrible as we ALREADY HAVE?
With respect to 100, yes, in a perfect world, where legislation is passed exactly as introduced, where all the legislators only act in the best interests of the general population, and where the mechanism to replace a major tax with another without overlap (if there is overlap then severe mischief will happen), then I say, maybe the so-called FairTax is a workable idea.
There are too many ifs and all that is required to make fairtax work as intended goes against the grain of congressional legislation. This is why so-called FairTax is and will be DOA.
Their plan might, their legislation doesn't.