BTW, welcome back.
Good to be back, I didn't think about the FairTax more than a couple of times as I was hanging around in French Polynesia for twelve days. (except when I was in the top secret IRS planning meetings in our secret lair in the crater of a dormant volcano filled with voodoo dolls of every American and lots of pins to stick them with) What a great place and they hate the French there too. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes the Caribbean. Moorea and Bora Bora are both spectacular, and the diving was great-- sharks, rays, moray eels, sea turtles, and a huge variety of fishes and coral.
I'm glad to see a lot happened to expose the truth about the Free Lunch while I was gone, and that Boortz capitulated on his assertions in the book. BUSTED! Very interesting that some FairTaxers are still denying the obvious.