Ron Paul does NOT support the so-called Fair Tax. Ron Paul believes that the actions of the IRS are illegal and that such an unapportioned tax is Unconstitutional.
Paul states that if you reduced spending roughly to 1996 levels, the Federal income tax rate could be 0%. The only justification for such taxation is to promote the growth of the welfare/warfare state. The United States does not need a Big Brother government.
The Fair Tax is a scam, in that it’s designed to sound really nice in principle and most people dislike the IRS. However, who would enforce Fair Tax compliance? The Fair Tax Revenue Service? So rename the IRS and make its business enforcing sales tax payment instead of income tax payment. What a non-achievement.
Also, the Fair Tax would not, as Mike Huckabee stated, eliminate the “underground economy”. It would merely encourage massive illegal importing and black market sales bypassing the sales tax at all levels. Al Capone may not have paid income taxes, but he didn’t pay sales taxes on any of his illegal booze imports either. Do not be fooled.
