Soonerz

It's a flat tax with a prebate. Read up about it. I've been skeptical too, but it ends up being fairly progressive. Poor people would essentially get welfare, people spending up to the poverty level would pay no taxes, and a couple with two children spending approximately $60,000 a year would have an 11% tax rate. Lower than what middle class families pay now.

The 11% tax rate only assumes they spend $60,000 a year. It assumes nothing about their earnings. They could earn $60,000 or $100,000.

You make claims about false assumptions underlying the fairtax, but this FAQ seems to have counter points to just about anything you would bring up: http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=FAQs#1

Not to mention the faq clearly shows people who are middle class paying lower taxes under fair tax system, but I guess it's easy to make claims without actually doing your due diligence.

Every work of literature is a work synthesizing the experiences of the person writing it. The fact that Asimov had some of the brightest people contributing to his knowledge on so many subjects is why he could write so well about them.

Interesting to hear. Thanks for the reply. But really, if science progressed to the point it could give you 100% functional hands/legs/whatever, you would still be opposed to doing it? It's just difficult to wrap my head around. What about 100% functional prosthesis that could be removed at any time?

Have you ever considered getting a hand transplant? Especially when they eventually become more affordable and with better results (like being made from your own stem cells, so no chance of rejection).