Yes, the rich pay their “fair share.” We need to start hitting up the “poor” and making them pay their fair share - and the Fair Tax would be a good means of doing so, too!
The working “poor” would get all their FairTax rebated to them, wouldn’t they ? And the FairTax eliminates both the Income tax and the SS/M taxes.
Yet they would still get full credit for SS/M benefits, right ?
At least today, they might contribute something to SS/M, but under the FairTax they could easily contribute nothing at all.
And the “rich” could easily spend most of their money outside the country and legally avoid paying taxes altogether.
Sounds like the FairTax would have both “rich” and “poor” paying less — and that would leave just the “middle” to pay for everything.