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Unclear Logic
I read "The Fair Tax Book: Saying Goodbye to the Income Tax and the IRS" book and understood it perfectly, even felt like jumping on the "bandwagon." After reading "FairTax: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing," I felt even more strongly that the FairTax should be passed.
The FairTax/Wolf book was slinging mud, not bringing up actual figures that could convince me that the Fair Tax was a bad idea. Warwick's challenges are far flung and wide. An example is right in the first chapter where he pulls statistics which say that it costs between $300 and $600 billion to comply with the IRS code and the FairTax/Goodbye IRS book states that this is a blow to our economy, whereas Warwick's FairTax/Wolf book reply to this is "WHAT! What do you think the people who earned the $500 billion did with it? Bury it in their backyards..." This indicates a lack of understanding of the loss. This money was never earned by anyone. It was what a person could have earned had they been billing for their time-which instead they spent filling out forms for the IRS.
Examples like this are prevalent throughout the FairTax/Wolf book. I found it difficult to make it through, but continued, to see if there was in fact any "meat" in there.
If you all ready have read the FairTax/Goodbye IRS and agree with its truths, then please read this, so you will have an understanding of where our opponents are getting their muddy water from.
June 2007 · Books