The only way we will be free of the slavery of taxes is to put the government beck in its Constitutionally delineated (original intent) cage.
So long as the Federal Government is in my light sockets, toilet tank and my kid's lunchbox, we are subjects of abject tyranny, and no matter how you collect the money, it remains what it is.
Put lipstick on a pig, you just have a fancy high-maintenance pig.
As for: "With respect to employees, it will not take 100,000 feds (the rough IRS body count today) to operate the new agency. The IRS WILL BE ABOLISHED and a new agency created to monitor the states tax collection efforts after FairTax is implemented. If the number of IRS types decreases by 50-75%, that is a hellofasavings!"
When has the government ever, and I mean ever, retired or done away with an agency it that didn't find a less efficient and more expensive labor intensive way to do things?
I have absolutely no faith that anything would be reduced in size or scope by a government that expanded (against the 4th Amendment) its monitoring of "terrorists" to include every communication in the country, including, no doubt, this one, regardless of who or what.
When the ministry of blanket electronic proctology shuts its doors, maybe we can think about downsizing.
I am fully in support of eliminating the income tax, after all, how is an exchange of my time, labor, and expertise "income"? I am trading, even up, for some pieces of paper or inconvenienced electrons to say I have another, more widely accepted medium of exchange--but have I gained anything? No, I traded, value for value, even up. No "gain", no "income" involved.
You can’t have it both ways. Replacing the income tax with a VAT is a disaster waiting to happen. Replacing the income tax with an income tax is a zero sum game.
As to your other comments, you are conflating your general distrust with government (which I share) to the problems the income tax and the IRS create for American businesses and residents.
I am about replacing the income tax with the FAirTax and abolishing the IRS.
The other stuff comes after we get this done.