So, you’re argument boils down to, “The Fair Tax might be better for the criminally minded, so we can’t allow upstanding citizens to benefit from it.” Nice.
Truthfully, I agree that The Fair Tax, as championed by Huckabee, is fatally flawed. We don’t need the rebate horse hockey, but we do need to tax the business-to-business transactions like everything else. In fact, transactions are the only legitimate place a government can tax – Income taxes and property taxes amount to institutionalized covetousness by the lawyer-politician class, and are immoral (Like most of the lawyer-politicians themselves) – so EVERY transaction ought to be taxed at a rate not to exceed 5%. No exceptions. Not even for food.
Americans understand sales taxes and have been paying them at the state level forever, so your argument that some gargantuan new bureau would have to appear is fallacious. A federal sales tax would integrate with the current system seamlessly. Oh, and state sales tax should not exceed 5% either, so the total transaction tax (And, that’s what I favor) would be no more than 10%. God asks for a 10% tithe, so how can the government legitimately ask for more? It can’t: When the federal income tax was first imposed, the top rate was 4% because of this very argument: THAT’S how far we’ve slid down this slippery slope.
The IRS is an immoral and anti-American abomination, and must be abolished. By whatever means necessary. LOL!
BTW: The transaction tax would not be a VAT, because a VAT is invisible and variable: You never know exactly how much you are getting reamed for. Ten percent is ten percent is ten percent. Everybody would understand this intuitively, but it ought to be printed on every receipt as well.
