FairTax fallacy.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)

As a FairTax organizer in Oklahoma, I was disappointed in Mr. Rockwell's article called "The Great Tax Myth" (THE NEW AMERICAN, April 14, 2008). While I completely agree that a return to constitutional taxation is conceptually attractive, there isn't enough support for such a proposal. On the other hand, the FairTax Bill H.R. 25/S. 1025 exists and has 72 cosponsors and at least a million vocal and passionate supporters. The FairTax, since it involves an indirect consumption-based tax, would be in harmony with the original Constitution. If we wait for Mr. Rockwell's movement, we will all be old and gray or dead long before anything changes, and we will be left with this income-tax monster and its 70,000 pages of documentation (and growing) and the most brutal, Mafia-style, rights-destroying collection agency that could possibly exist.

The hidden, embedded cost of the current income-tax system is estimated to be about 22 percent of the cost of everything we buy in this country. When the current tax system is gone, business competition will drive that 22 percent out of the ...