The percentage of taxes paid on the so-called 'Fair Tax' are too high. Also why should any American be forced by an act of congress to pay any tax whatsoever out of their own hard earned pay? Didn't they earn every penny of their wages? Isn't that their own money for them to keep and do with what they will? Isn't it their right to keep their own money for their own families and and their families future? Why shouldn't artificial creations of government be taxed instead of men and women of all ages who work by the labor of their own hands and minds with an understanding that they would get paid what their are truly worth in the marketplace? Everyone knows that most of the marketplace is already controlled by corporations to begin with. The so-called 'Fair-Tax' makes each working person a subject of the State by claiming they have a right to make sure that the sales taxes get paid when these hard working people would wish to open up their own businesses in hopes of operating in a free marketplace without all the government harrassment and licensing procedures to just be in business in the first place. Lift the licensing taxes and procedures make us subject to the crown law being legislated here in the constitutional monarchy and let us open up our businesses in a free marketplace that is unlicensed and unregulated by procedures that hamper a competitive environment. DO THAT FIRST BY LAW AND PUT IT INTO LEGAL EFFECT AND THEN COME BACK TO US AT THE TABLE TO DISCUSS ANY SUCH NUMBERS ABOUT ANY SUCH 'FAIR TAX'. UNTIL THEN YOU HAVE NO TAX. YOU HAVE NO TAX. gene karl ======================================== A better solution would be not to create a new tax system as a 'transition'. The better solution would be to do what Mr. Buckley is proposing, and that is to reduce the amount of taxation within the existing system. And the strength of any reduction of any system of taxation is proportional to how many people like Libertarians that you put into office. This amount of taxes being paid in is less of a relation to the structure of the taxation system but more in relation to the type of people that hold office and their will to reduce the amount of taxation. Therefore you should put your efforts into putting people like Mr. Buckley into office instead of promoting a new tax system that will do not but further clamp federal control over the states. gene karl