Thank you.
It is easy for someone who makes their living defending the IRC to throw rocks at any proposal which threatens to make them into honest citizens.
It is far more difficult for that same person to propose a better alternative.
I think most of us who support the FairTax are open to suggestions as to better ways to tax (an oxymoron?).
HST, have you noticed that the negative nabobs are without any concrete proposals?
Yes, I have noticed that. It also appears they are very, very fearful of change and they have no appreciation for genuine liberty. They are content to allow the government to reach into their paychecks to confiscate that portion they deem legal. They are likewise content to divulge the intimate details of their personal and financial lives to the government.
Can you imagine what the founders would have said or done if the government demanded to know whether they were married, had children, gave to charity, owned a home or bought/sold securities or other property? How much money they made in a year? I have no doubt there would have been blood shed at the mere prospect. The founders knew what they were doing when they prohibited the federal government from taxating the citizens directly.
Our forefathers lost their collective minds in 1913. The 16th and 17th Amendments transferred an enormous amount of power to the Federal government. But the people have grown so accustomed to the invasions and confiscatory taxation, they don't even question the system or dare to dream of true liberty. We are the servants and the IRS is our master. But the majority of the sheople are too stupid to realize it.