In article , "Peter Gottlieb"
writes:

But just how to you plan on getting the government to release itself from
the public teet? Our two significant parties don't seem differentiable from
one another when it comes to spending money, they only argue about where.

You can shift around who pays the biggest tax burden, you can shift around
programs, but the only way to fix things is to reduce how much is spent and
this is an enormously difficult problem to tackle.


That is, of course, the point. We spend so much only because the majority of
the electorate PERCEIVES federal spending as "free" to them. The vast majority
of the tax burden is concealed in imbedded taxes in the cost of goods and
services. Add to that the "employer contribution" to FICA and FUTA, and the
painless nature of witholding taxes from gross pay and the result is that
people vote for spendthrift politicians because they buy into the illusion that
someone else is paying for it.

What the FairTax does, more than anything else, is to dispel that illusion and
make the cost of government visible othose who are paying for it. When the
hardworking low and middle income taxpayers, who currently think they get all
their tax back when they file their return, see the true cost of government on
every grocery receipt, they will be less inclined to vote for politicians who
fund $50 million domed ranforests in Iowa.

--
Wm. Donald (Don) Tabor Jr., DDS
PP-ASEL
Chesapeake, VA - CPK, PVG