[RobFromGa]

However, many suspect that it has to do with your somehow benefiting personally from what we currently suffer.

Most FairTaxers do eventually resort to ad hominem attacks on the supposedly evil and/or selfish motives of those who oppose their illogical and fraudulent plan.

My only motive is that I love this country and I think it is a great country with an awesome and resilient economy that is the best the world has ever known.

And I have travelled extensively and seen Europe where they have income taxes, and 19% VAT on all purchases, and employer paid "contributions" to all their social programs that end up totalling over half of the persons income. And I don't want us to end up with a FairTax and an income tax which is the only logical conclusion as to what will happen with a failed FairTax collection scheme, as would almost surely happen.

So stuff your talk of my evil motives or personal profits from the present system. As a small business owner I pay a ton of taxes.

[Bigun]

Whatever you say Rob but I believe that our country is being destroyed by the income tax - which is precisely WHY Marx and Engles endorsed it in the second section of their Manifesto of the Communist Party - and I want to preserve a little of it for my children and grandchildren.

[higgmeister]

And I have travelled extensively and seen Europe where they have income taxes, and 19% VAT on all purchases, and employer paid "contributions" to all their social programs that end up totalling over half of the persons income. And I don't want us to end up with a FairTax and an income tax which is the only logical conclusion as to what will happen with a failed FairTax collection scheme, as would almost surely happen.

So stuff your talk of my evil motives or personal profits from the present system. As a small business owner I pay a ton of taxes.

And write off much more.   I never imagined that I could ever be pushed to stoop to class warfare!

But, you certainly do sound as if you are afraid of losing your personal little tax shelter and are desperate to denigrate the cause of your feared misfortune.

I will admit that I am a man of very moderate means living in an older frame house and no expectation of traveling much more than the USAF sent me PCS over thirty years ago.

If you would couch your arguments in that regard, that the Far Tax would cause you personal harm, I might be more inclined to consider your opinion. As it stands now, you sound like a peevish self-indulgent Clymer.