I'm just pointing out that the promoters of the bill and the House sponsor, and the FairTax.org website are very vague on what they expect will happen to wages, they are not taking the position of 100% of current gross pay.
Because they know that taking that position causes all the other consequences to happen to prices, inflation, and the cost of governement, and the FairTax rate going through the roof.
So, they don't say what they expect to happen to wages. Linder states that he expects the government salaries to stay the same if private industry does, and to drop if private industry does that. He has no idea of what will happen. Of course the FairTax couldn't possibly move forward without answering a simple question like what will happen to government pay, but Linder's not gonna answer it.
"Because they know that taking that position causes all the other consequences to happen to prices, inflation, and the cost of governement, and the FairTax rate going through the roof. "
So now we see you knowing what "... the promoters of the bill and the House sponsor, and the FairTax.org website ..." believe and know (or don't). It seems to me that what you actually have done is the same thing you did in your many original vanity posts of merely offering your own opinion as some sort of iron clad fact as the only possible interpretation.
As I told you a year or more ago when you did that, that's nonsense. Why should anyone take your obviously and admittedly biased view (which lacks any factual backup) as anything resembling correct information? You said you prefer the income tax (though initially pretending otherwise) and have no economic studies to show that the income tax offers any benefits of the FairTax.
Of course Linder's not going to answer it. Why should he. He's not an economist ... but unlike some he doesn't pretend to be. That's what economic studies are for - and there are economic studies still ongoing with the FairTax.
My belief is that takehome pay will go up to the full wage amount with no federal withholding - not counting the ER fica. I've said that before and I certainly believe that is the most rational thing since both competition and existing wage agreements will mandate that. As I think you know most government wages are covered by contracts with bargaining organizations.