The United States federal tax code has a reached a level of such complexity, no single person could spend an entire lifetime to fully understand it. Even recent appointees to Barack Obama's cabinet had so much trouble with the tax code that they didn't file properly. (e.g. Geithner, Daschle, Killifer) If the typical taxpaying citizen hired several accounting firms to process his/her return, chances are that each of those firms would report different figures. In fact, that's not a hypothetical. It's actually happened. And that fact just reveals the tip of the iceberg. The cost of compliance has become a dreadful weight upon the US economy, all the way from the typical head of the household filing personal incoming taxes to the businesses that augment the prices of their products and services just to pay for their efforts of compliance. The FairTax is not a tax cut, nor is it a tax raise. It is a tax replacement that makes the federal taxing system more efficient. The FairTax addresses these problems and so many others.
You may have skepticism, or you may have a great deal of excitement. Either way, read the book, The FairTax Book, which outlines the plan. At the very least, you'll learn something that you may not already know, regardless of whether you end up supporting the FairTax or not.
Furthermore, unlike the ignorant, megalomaniac Janeane Garofalo thinks, the Tax Day Tea Parties representing the central theme of citizens uniting to tell the government to stop spending our money in wreckless bailouts and political payoffs disguised as economic stimulus. The people who have essentially become rookie protesters in this movement are true patriots to American values.
