[Final Authority]

Who is Cain? Or Louie or Willie? I quoted Greenspan. I think he has more to do with the fiscal future of our nation than any fairtaxers.

Besides, what I wrote that you characterized as a strawman argument is what will be discussed before the 16th amendment is ever abolished. How will an American national living on foreign soil be taxed under the so-called fairtax? How will that be fair?

[groanup]

"The government will never abandon the income tax because the liberals won't let it happen because how else would one tax an American living on foreign soil, or tax old wealth (death taxes) or tax so-called unearned income, or tax windfalls like a signing bonus or the like?"

Liberals wouldn't let the Senate be lost, they wouldn't let the house be lost, they wouldn't let the presidency be lost --- but they did. I don't want to tax an American living on foreign soil, nor do I want estate taxes, unearned income taxes or any other taxes on the creation of wealth. After I have created some wealth and want to spend it, then I'll pay taxes. That idea is so simple and so saleable to the American people.

Those who think the fair tax is out of reach should think again.