First, I don’t think anything short of castration would stop Congressional spending. Sales taxes or no sales tax, they are gonna spend like drunks because they believe it will benefit their constituencies & get them elected.
Second, under the FT, products & services are cheaper across the board, because businesses no longer pay income taxes, so even if the Feds charge themselves a sales tax, it costs them nothing & the goods & services are still cheaper. If this windfall prompts the gov’t to spend even more money, you can hardly blame a taxation system for this.
Congressional spending has no relation to HOW the gov’t is financed.
Allow me to interject, if I may.....
The Fair Tax taxes government purchases to put them on an equal footing with the private sector.
And with respect to controlling spending:
Unless and until EVERY AMERICAN has a personal, vested, visible, pecuniary interest in the cost of government, the spending will continue unabated.
The low income people erroneously believe they pay no tax, so they logically call for another government program to solve their woe of the day. Unless and until this segment of the population sees and feels the pain of the tax system, they will continue to call for more spending.
Changing the way we collect revenue is ESSENTIAL.