[kevkrom]

The FAIR tax would give us an IRS bureaucracy larger and more intrusive than the one we have now.

Ridiculous assertion. There are roughly 10x as many "income earners" as there retail points of sale.

[Parmenio]

No, you’re being ridiculous. There are far more individual transactions for the IRS to monitor under the so-called “FAIR” tax system than there are taxpayers. You seem ignorant of the way the so-called “FAIR” tax works. It’s not just retail outlets that the IRS would have to monitor, but all of the transactions conducted by the middlemen in between. We’re talking about billions of transactions for the IRS to monitor.

[MrB]

Yeah, though it would be kind of a bummer to be a retailer,
it would eliminate the government’s interaction with the individual.

And, for the retailer, it wouldn’t be so bad, anyway - they already collect sales taxes.

[Black Agnes]

Every human becomes a potential ‘retail point of sale’ eventually. It won’t start out that way. Neither did the income tax apply to all earners. But it will end up that way. Sooner rather than later.