That wasn't what I said, and that's exactly why I stay off these threads except to offer my opinion, once.
I didn't say that I "didn't give a crap what we replace it with"--I said that I'm for total reform and that the NRST represents a breath of fresh air.
The fact that you completely misrepresented what I said in order to make a supercilious rude comment to me doesn't speak well for your credibility.
I don't know of ANY elected representative that thinks the IRS is just fine the way it is. I don't know of anyone who thinks the present tax system is fixable. I don't know of anyone who thinks it isn't a drain on productivity and the economy in general.
I think the NRST is a breath of fresh air. I look forward to hearing or reading a debate without name-calling. So far, we don't have that on this thread. And as far as I know, I didn't address ANYONE with my post, just gave my opinion, and then got insulted.
I'm off the thread. But my comments will remain, so that anyone who reads it can see what happens to those who offer their opinion here.
Sounds like you are awfully thin-skinned. If you took even half of the name-calling that we get for daring to question whether there might be oh a trillion or a trillion and a half missing from the FairTax plan as described by the FairTax book, we are jumped on.
Your argument does fall into the "Anything but the IRS" way of thinking, and you are for a plan with now-obvious major problems, yet you still say you are for the NRST.
Well, you say you're not here to see this response anyway.