If history is any guide this could be the longest thread you have ever posted. This issue needs vetting. I have been an advocate of the Fair Tax for years and the more we look at it the more I like it. It isn't perfect and it still allows way too much government revenue but it's the best proposal on the table.
Thoreau went to Walden Pond to protest taxes. Today a SWAT team would be sent in, his cabin burned, and he would shoot himself in the back. The papers would applaud the death of the "White Separatist".
I hate the federal boot on my individual neck. If HR25 passes, taxes again become voluntary. States collect them. If I get mad, I can purchase only used goods.