Phantom was wrong in his explaination of #1, he was incorrect in that he did not know that sales tax would in fact be charged on most state employee salaries, and his point that states might not go to the sales tax implies that states will keep the income tax which kind of destroys the whole point of the fair tax system to eliminate income taxes. If the states just pick up the income tax where the feds left off, what is the point? But if you think those are good points, so be it.
In Georgia we have a state income tax. If we implement a fair tax nationally there will be hell to pay every April down here. There will be a call to revamp our system. As far as state employees being taxed, well, they are now aren't they? They get paid by the government and they get taxed by the government. What's the difference under a NRST?