Your fair tax/flat tax idea falls flat WHEN the powers that be call for a greece/EU type “buy in”, and simply confiscate your wealth and hand it over to the same entities that wrecked the market in the first place.
Beans, bullets, and the national bank of seeley are safe bets. If you don't have your wealth in your possession, then you'll probably lose it, or have it confiscated at gunpoint by the government.
Never underestimate the ability of a corrupt government. History will prove that out, time and time again.
While I mostly agree with you, I've actually communicated via email with a number of those stock market "bear" prognosticators and they ALL agree with me that major tax reform is needed, especially with that problem of (by some economic estimates) US$15 TRILLION in liquid assets held by Americans sitting in non-US banks--a level of liquid if brought back to the USA to put in American-based banks and the US equities markets would turn around our economy faster than an F-22A Raptor doing a sharp turn. :-)