I was reading the latest Liberty ViewsLetter and thought I'd like to comment a bit.
In my opinion, Fair Tax is way better than Flat Tax, even if still inferior to Threatless and Theftless. Flat has generally seemed to be more ploy than real solution to any high-priority problems. It's definitely a distraction from many better possible tax reforms and would probably exacerbate more problems than it alleviates, even if it's superficially quite "fair." Simpler isn't always better and more fair. Any correlation between simplicity and fairness is completely situationally dependent.
Fair, on the other hand, is quite a bit closer to the ideals of liberty because it would only tax sales. It's stupid for bulky lying warring governments to take from our income before we receive it and then collect again either when we utilize it or when we die before we have done so. We're trapped and being closed in on from each side. It's bullshit!
I must admit, the implementation of Fair would likely initiate some level of economic recession or depression for a while (and it could theoretically crumble down to all key foundations leaving a scorched earth behind if everyone was still foolish enough to panic contagiously, based primarily on herd-mentality, speculation, and falsified accounts from those public authorities who proudly brandish blatant conflicts-of-interest about their purported values, typically have ulterior motives, and plainly stand the most to gain by remaining undetected as both villain and hero). Such a recession would potentially result from the economy adapting to newfound flexibility and its tendency to seek a stable equilibrium as more people waking up to Fair decide to then earn and save more, while spending proportionally much less than they had before. Such behavior might be done to further minimize the amount of individual wealth that's being stolen and covertly reappropriated by too many greedy centralized monopolists of governance, commerce, media, power, war, and control.
Both figureheads and Shills of the entrenched political stanchions (which should maybe be used singularly since the two sides are often merely faces of the same awfully narrow and deepening rut) perennially regurgitate hollow freedom rhetoric and patriotism while reliably bolstering their own ruling-class fortifications ahead of the genuine relinquishment of any controls that would dramatically liberate the ruled subjects.
It remains a massively complex and parasitic relationship which should be severed before the relatively benevolent, diligent, prosperous, generous, faithful, and gullible host is bled dry. The leech is too slow and constantly thirsty to ever stop growing, while unmolested. Throughout history, short-sighted fear and greed have killed both stallion and sycophant (generally after the former has long been blinded, crippled, starved, and confined under severely cruel conditions while the latter has cracked the whips and viciously enriched themselves). By our modern blood-letting ailment remedies and exorcism practices, which we collectively force to have performed against those most imagined to be witches and possessed by demons today, we preserve our status as the very enemy we loathe, which then proceeds to circularly justify our own chains and prisons.
I think Fair Tax would be an excellent step that I could get behind as easily as Approval Voting. Both seem clearly better directions, even if short of higher ideals. Protesting taxation at post offices is cool too. I'm pleased by the communication of strong libertarian ideas, both online and off. Freedom doesn't just need to ring. I say: Let freedom reign! By that, I don't mean the retarded government of the self-proclaimed "free" United States should rule the world and try to force its idea of "freedom" on anyone who has a different idea. I mean true freedom, universal individual freedom itself, is what should reign supreme over one and all.
