Here is an analysis of the fair tax idea.
that shows much better then I can that the fair tax is anything but fair.

FactCheck.org: Unspinning the FairTax

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Walt Whitman
"I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences."