Writing for the free-market Ludwig von Mises Institute, Laurence Vance can’t find enough bad things to say about the FairTax Book.
As far as I can tell, his basic gripe is that the FairTax won’t roll us back to the size of federal government that existed before the industrial revolution took place.
The antidote to the fraud of the FairTax is a good dose of the wisdom of Murray Rothbard: “There can be no such thing as ‘fairness in taxation.’ Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a ‘fair tax’ is therefore every bit as absurd as that of ‘fair theft.’”
Gotta love that Rothbardian outlook. “Why accomplish some good today when you can piss and moan about the need for perfection tomorrow, instead.”
