Hear! Hear!
Taxing consumption rather than income makes the ultimate sense in a society that relies on tax revenue for it’s continued function.
I much prefer the Fair Tax over the alternatives offered to this point, and certainly over the current model. For all the arguing over the details, and the ongoing discussion over what should be the correct rate, etc., the Fair Tax is in fact just that...Fair. If I choose not to pay taxes, I don’t spend.
Feelings are all fine and dandy in determining what the goals of a society should be. I’m all with you in despising the income tax.
However, whether something will work as intended or not is not influenced by mine, your’s or anybody else’s feelings.
I’m not enough of an expert to really judge whether the Fair Tax will work as claimed. I do believe that Mr. Frum is correct when he says that the vast majority of credentialed economists believe that it will not. Since I’m not an economist myself, I will take their word over that of those whose primary reason for support of the FT is that they don’t like the income tax.