Still — IM all for passing it. I think we need to do it, just to learn how economics works.

But wow — there are going to be some real surprised people.

Nursing home patients would get a surprise the first month of this tax. Nursing home patients could easily get Tax bills of up to 4,000 a month, and the average will be 2100 a month.

Cancer patients are another group — their chemo and surgery will be taxed. A cancer patient could easiy get a tax bill of 40,000 dollars in their struggle to stay alive - or to keep a child of theirs alive.

There will be a huge outcry — from these and other groups. I dont see how Congress will not give them exemptions. Ive been involved in politics for 35 years, and I can assure you, they will get exemptions, and they should. Many simply couldnt afford the tax

But no other part of FT is quite so puzzling, as the notion, as Boortz said “the government itself becomes a major taxpayer” because of Fairtax.

Isnt that like paying yourself to cut your grass? Sure you can write the check, you can even deposit it in that same account. But you didnt make 500 dollars.