Reply #278: this fair tax crap has been around since 1998 at least [View All]

[pffarrell]

when some millionaires in Houston ponied up the money to get it started. If the whole purpose of this proposal (as it seems to be as it keeps getting trotted by everyone who backs this bs) is to get drug dealers and money launderers etc to pay taxes - well, I seem to recall that it was income tax evasion that put Al Capone behind bars. If the IRS really wants to make these pay income tax, I think they've got lots of tools a their disposal, and a total rewrite of tax law in the US is a but overboard. The 30-40% sales tax (not 23, as they say, that's a fallacy) would create a massive inducment to evade sales tax, especially coupled with state sales tax, and you would see an increase in the number of tax evaders. Either you really did drink the kool-aid, or you've got a lot more money than you're letting on. No sane and intelligent poor person backs a regressive tax like this.