In one of your posts you were pity partying the plumber Joe Sixpack who does plumbing work on the side in the "neighborhood" having to file a FairTax report on the taxes he collects selling his services behind his employer's back. No Mary is NOT PAID now to file an income tax return or a sales tax return in her state. The FairTax system PAYS the retailers who collect the tax a fee to collect the FairTax and file the monthly report. What do you mean you don't know how much a retailer is paid to collect the FairTax???? It's IN THE LEGISLATION YOU CLAIM YOU READ PAGE TO PAGE. The fee is a credit off the FairTaxes collected, the greater of $200 a month or 1/4 of 1% of the taxes collected, not to exceed 20% of the total taxes collected.

I have absolutely so problem at all in taxing retail customers and consumers of retail businesses to support our federal government, whether it's a big corporation, a small business or a part-time individual vendor. It's 3 figures. Gross sales figure, 23% of gross sales figure for the FairTax, and the credit amount for their fee as compensation for the service they are providing in collecting the tax and filing the monthly report with the taxes they collected, less their fee. If you own property and rent it out to consumers, not businesses, you'll be required to collect a FairTax and include those rents on your monthly FairTax report.

No honest Joe and Mary Sixpack is going to complain about this, because every honest and compliant Joe and Mary Sixpack are today under the present system required to pay 15.30% of every dime they earn selling the "property of their labor" just in self-employment taxes on their baby-sitting and plumber moonlighting jobs in addition to federal income taxes in addition to collecting and filing state sales taxes on all products and services they sell that are covered by those state sales tax laws and they have to file state sales tax reports every month and file and pay their self-employment and estimated income taxes every quarter and no one pays you for that.

So anyone upset with filing a simple report to send in the Fairtaxes they collected that month from their customers, a task they are paid for out of the FairTaxes their customers paid, is probably someone who hasn't been complying with all the state and federal tax laws today, because by comparison, the total taxes involved are much lower, the paperwork is much easier and the time involved to do it is much less, and not only does it not come out of the pockets of "labor", it comes out of the pockets of their customers, they are also paid by those customers and the FairTax system for the service they are providing for collecting the tax and filing the report and taxes they collected less their fee for the service.

In exchange, the whole country, everyone, is free of all federal income taxes including corporate income tax, individual income tax, payroll taxes on labor, self-employment taxes, dividend taxes, interest income taxes, estate taxes, dividend taxes, capital gains taxes and gift taxes. To me, to be free of all that for everyone in exchange for a national retail sales tax on new goods and services that requires only retail businesses to file a simple 3 figure report when 1 of the 3 figures is their compensation for filing their monthly FairTax report is truly one of the great blessings of liberty promised in the preamble of the US Constitution.

And when it passes, it will run so smoothly and easily, the states and local governments will say, geez, that's a truly great system, and they will jump on board and have their own state and local FairTaxes and rid the states of their own crazy tyranny that not only includes income taxes but the evil horrendous property tax as well. And it won't take very long either.

Furthermore, for the limited government folks, every American will be able see with every purchase they make every day, the cost of government which may cause them to pause and say "damn, we got too much government." And we do. We need government and plenty of it to do all the things that we as individuals can't do or don't want to do, but we have too much government that's doing things we don't want it to do and don't need it to do, and when people see that total cost with every purchase, that's when Americans will be able to truly pull the plug on so much of this government waste of our money doing things we don't support at costs we can't afford.

But you go ahead and fight the FairTax over a monthly sales sales report that is already law in 45 states, johnwk. That's your choice, and you're not alone, there's lots of Anti-FairTax people out there. So far, all they've accomplished is maintained the status quo of the federal income tax for what is to me the pettiest of reasons, while Rome burns with tyranny, authoritarianism, poverty, insolvency and public debts so large no one even knows what it means any more.