The FAIR tax doesn’t get rid of the IRS. There will still be a federal tax collection agency. Indeed, the FAIR tax is more complicated than the current system, and gives Congress even greater opportunity to distort the economy by manipulating tax rates on every individual product sold in America.
H.R 25 abolishes the IRS; read the bill!
The federal tax collection agency established by the FairTax will interface with states, not citizens.
You got some ‘splainin’ to do re: “. . .the FAIR tax is more complicated than the current system, and gives Congress even greater opportunity to distort the economy by manipulating tax rates on every individual product sold in America.”
BTW, I don’t buy into Adler’s or Gale’s anti-FairTax arguments — they are shot through with scare tactics, suppositions and hypotheticals.
But, that is what I would expect FRom income tax whores.
Profoundly weak academic work, if you ask me.
How can a 150 page bill be more complicated than the thousands of pages of Title 26?
Do you have any appreciation for the complexity of each tax that is repealed and replaced by the FairTax?
How can you possibly assert that a simple, single-rate, sales tax that is collected at the point of final consumption is more complex than the sum total of:
The personal income tax
The Corporate Net Income Tax
The FICA and Medicare Tax
The Estate and Gift Tax?
Your assertion is facially ludicrous.