Originally Posted by
fj1200
The FairTax was designed to be revenue neutral and eliminate all other Federal taxes, including SS, etc.
Sure. But who controls the pot of a Federal "Fair Tax Act"? The Federal government. Cutting out the states.
Then when the Feds start jacking its Federal flat tax to pay for their BS -- the Feds being our so-called elected officials in DC doing the spending -- then what exactly stands between the people and that taxation? Nothing.
If I had to choose between more socialism and secession from a sinking ship, not hard to guess which way I'd vote.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke