If you realize all the hidden taxes you're already paying now, in addition to federal and state income taxes, you'll find that you're paying more now in those income and hidden taxes than you'll be paying in consumption taxes up front with the Fair Tax. The government prebates can be loosely compared to yearly income tax refunds, but the beauty of it is that you won't be filing a yearly tax return or facing the possibility of paying even more taxes with that return. Consumption taxes will be paid by everyone, including those paid under the table and those who are in the country illegally. You control how much you pay in consumption taxes by monitoring your spending habits instead of the government telling you they're going to take so much of your paycheck each week in addition to the many 'hidden taxes' you're paying for goods now. The Fair Tax is designed to replace our current system, not supplement it as many people (like iwillhelp) would like for us to believe.

Most all 3rd and 4th world countries have "fair tax" isn't it about time we join them in their idiocy? That would fit in with our long range plan for the country, having a 2 class system.

Most people couldn't run a lemonade stand much less a business and that is why they don't understand that taxes are a cost to a business just like labor, materials, pencils, etc. Business don't pay taxes now, they pass those costs along to the end user just as they pass along all other costs.

iwillhelp has glaringly pointed out that he does not understand this concept.

harry:Under the unFair Tax scheme, businesses won't have to pay the sales tax on their equipment. That's not among the major fallacies our their argument. The major one is assuming there is a 23% "imbedded" tax in everything you buy and that prices would automatically be lowered by that amount. They claim that the tax is 23% by figuring if you spend a dollar, you pay $1.30, $.30 is 23% of $1.30, not the actual 30% tax. The 23% figure is also only counted for one year then can be raised as needed. They claim it will eliminate the IRS, but creates in The Dept of the Treasury an "Excise Tax Bureau" and a "Sales Tax Bureau". A rose by any other name. Their figures on sales count what the Fed, state, and local governments spend in the private sector. Governments will not pay taxes so the projected revenue will be far less than they claim. We have seen the financial situation of states that rely primarily on sales tax revenues. They also claim the 16th Amendment will be repealed by "companion legislation". That would require a Constitutional Amendment, not legislation. Just a few examples f the bull put forth by the backers of this scheme. If it sounds too good to be true....

Sounds like everyone hollering about the embedded taxes failed to read FAIRTAX --- STRAIGHTENING OUT SOME CONFUSION By Neil Boortz Where he had to correct where his first book was misleading on this.
According to him, the taxes took out of someone's paycheck belongs to the employer not the worker and he says that keeping all your pay means you will at least bring home what is currently your take home pay now. He also says that in order for the embedded tax to come out of the product the employer will have to keep the tax they pay on a workers behalf, meaning your net pay will be the same as now.
Go see it here. copy and past in address bar http://boortz.com/nuze/200509/09152005.html

If our country was currently using the FairTax system and had always done so, would we even WANT to change to our current system? If you had been used to always getting every dime of your paycheck on payday, would you actually WANT to change to a system that allows the government to seize YOUR money each payday? If a person went up to you and demanded you give them 25% (or more) of the money you earned, they'd be arrested for robbery. The government does the same thing to each of us every payday.

triscuit
The fairtax is 30% tax-exclusive and that's the only way to figure it on product and services. Exclusive is figured $500+30%=$650 but the fairtax bill says its a tax-inclusive meaning they want you to see it like this $650-23%=$500. No matter how you look at it, its still a 30% increase!

EVERY 15TH BECOMES LIKE APRIL 15
Small businesses and services will have to file taxes on the fairtax EVERY 15TH OF EVERY MONTH.(THE BILL SAYS)
These services become tax collectors and have to do taxes before every 15th of every month. this includes plumbers, people who cut grass, baby setters, landscapers. roofers, exterminators, tree service, handyman, house painters, I do not think people are realizing all that are conceder services, NONE OF THESE HAS EVER COLLECTED A SALES TAX BEFORE!!
Take a look- copy and past in your address bar - http://www.fairtax.org/PDF/PlainEnglishSummary_TheFairTaxAct2007.pdf

Anyone will agree that the tax system is full of holes. But I am not about to read Boortz's book to learn more about what we should do about it. Is he the same guy that talks about 'Wealth Envy' (his term for resentment against the rich and powerful for jiggering the system in their favor)? And getting rid of the 'Death Tax' (his term for the Estate Tax that is only paid by a fraction of the wealthiest people in this country)? 'Fair Tax' is very likely the same sort of coverup language that really means something completely different. I hope people will come to base their beliefs on something besides books written by self serving hyperadvocates.

The FAIR tax is fair to the rich; but no so fair to the poor. We need to make a turn off that road that we have been going down for lo these past 8 years.

TheShep
How can you say that, Everything except used is taxed, EVERYTHING, If you got bills, a bank account,see the doctor, buy gas, buy food you going to be taxed and you can't get out of it. ________
Since the Fairtax people love comparing it to the income tax lets do that in a untwisted way.The prebate does not un-tax you it only ups your pay, A single person making $25,000 a year, add their $2300 prebate bringing it to $28,000, This person will most likely spend every dime so their tax rate will be 30% . Now someone making $1million will also get the same prebate bringing their total to $1,002,300, Studies show the average for this group don't even spend half in a year , even spending half their tax rate will only be 15% compared to their income. FAIR?

So maybe people will quit living beyond their means which could have let us avoid the mess we are in now.

roosevelthiggins, HA HA. I Guarantee you one thing, you can't prove me wrong on one thing I have posted so for without lying because its going by the Fairtax Bill.

Do you know WHY the site says most companies don't pay taxes? Because they pass them on to YOU! My God, you libs aren't the brightest things in the country, are you? We have the second highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world and companies are sending their jobs overseas. ..and you fail to see the correlation? You don't stimulate a capitalist economy, which ours is, by implementing socialism.