The Fair Tax Scam look more and more like a newspeak owellian keep the sheep busy.
Just like the book had proclamations of increasing a 20 gram chocolate ration to 20 grams, the Fair Tax Scam is just moving things around but doing nothing.
It does not eliminate a government bureacracy. It mearly substitutes a new one. It does not reduce loopholes it only gives us new means of employeing them. It does not eliminate the success penalties it merely relocates them.
I think we are dealing with a pride of authorship rather than a pride of solution. We have a few people who are obsessed with eliminating the IRS at all costs. (ala the Scientologists) It will be easier to just change the name of the IRS so they can declare victory and leave everything alone. (kind of a Democrat surrender is victory for them)