Try this, looey. A rate (which is what the discussion is about) if a ratio - a number. It says nothing about requiring income or anything else for that matter.
The income tax rates are given as tax inclusive (by your reckoning a dishonest, fraudulent technique) and to compare THE RATES, the FairTax (or any other tax system) should also use tax inclusive - which it does.
Both systems could just as easily be expressed as ratios using tax exclusive rates which you think is the only "honest" ratio. Either way the ratios can be validly compared only if both ratios use the same basic technique - t-i or t-e.
Am I talking to a wall here, or what???
Am I talking to a wall here, or what???
No only in circles with no examples.