You have not read the legislation, have you? Under the FairTax, business to business sales are not taxed! VAT taxes EVERY sales transaction! Can you imagine the paperwork nightmare?
The 23% FairTax is levied on NEW products ONLY at the point of the final retail sale.
EVERY country that has a VAT also has an income tax. It is the nature of ALL governments to tax and tax and tax and spend and spend and spend.
I agree with you re: property taxes. If I were king for a day, all we would have is a retail sales tax at the local, county, state and federal level AND NO OTHER TAXES!
But then, reason, logic and common sense are not virtues of government at ANY level.
And, it is for damn sure that no government at ANY level will promote policies designed to maximize citizen FReedom and minimize government!
If I hadn't read this before, I wouldn't know that the fair tax intends to tax only at the point of final retail sale.
That is what I'm suggesting be changed. Have it be taxed at ANY sale along the process of bringing it to the final customer.
It is very possible to have both a sales tax and an income tax. One of the problems with the fair tax is the willingness of so many to implement a national sales tax 'before' they eventually repeal the income tax. (A bit of a misdirection because the original constitution did allow for an income tax. It just had to be proportioned to the states on a per capita basis.)