I doubt that the large retailers who handle something like 86% of retail sales will get involved in that to destroy their business.That's from one side of your mouth but from the other side you talk about this "broad tax base"...(but then you think "tax base" means tax payer not what is taxed).
The funny thing is, even in the Texas comptroller's testimony he claims that Texas retail tax filers would increase from 600,000 to 1.5 million in Texas alone under the Fairtax...
Your words from either side of your mouth don't hold water, never did.
That is because services are not currently taxed in Texas but would be under the Fairtax and as a result the tax base is FAR broader than it currently is. If Texas conformed it's sales tax base the federal sales tax base after the Fairtax became law, as they would be entirely stupid to not do, they could get rid of ALL other state taxes, including property taxes, and lower the current sales tax rate from the current 6.5% to about 4% and still raise the same amount of revenue.