I never argued that such a tax scheme would not have lower compliance costs. That is not my worry but the unintended conswquences of imposing a 30% tax given that there is a psychology of the consumer to deal with. But the crushing effect on Big Ticket items is the killer.
Where did the '30%' percent come from? You anti-fairtax people have been saying Fairtax would be '23%' percent.
"I never argued that such a tax scheme would not have lower compliance costs. That is not my worry but the unintended conswquences of imposing a 30% tax given that there is a psychology of the consumer to deal with. But the crushing effect on Big Ticket items is the killer."
So you fully support a system which provides an advantage to foreign producers at the expense of our own domestic producers, sending many thousands of jobs overseas in the process? You believe that, as a matter of public policy, that is what our tax system should be about?