[MaxFlint]

My impression is that a 30% sales tax is extremely high. It will also be added to state sales taxes, so there will be some horrible states where retail sales taxes will approach 40%. And what about restaurants? Some states have 12% meal taxes. Restaurants will be put out of business by a 42% tax.

I don't accept the underlying barely concealed premise, which implies a certain Calvinist vicious austerity, that consumption is a vice that should be punished with punitive taxation.

The "FairTax" advocates haven't thought it through at all, and the more I think about the idea the more I hate it.

[Taxman]

You have not done the homework I assigned you!

Please stop with the wild conjecturing and go do your homework!