Jeff Schnepper makes a good criticism of the Fair Tax. Boortz’s response?

First of all … he resorts to the childish 30% argument. I’m sorry, but if a person can’t understand the concept of replacing one embedded tax with another, and calculating those taxes in the same manner, then you have to wonder how much serious thought they’ve put into their criticism.

I have the next Fair Tax book on my to-buy list. But when you respond to an article that list both the benefits and drawbacks of the Fair Tax with “Waa! It’s not 30%!”, then you’re not even trying.

One of the biggest reasons to oppose the Fair Tax is the deception being practiced by its proponents. If their plan was so great, they would respond to the arguments that:

The Fair Tax is regressive since the rich do not spend 100% of their income while the poor do.

The Fair Tax will almost certainly cause a 30% inflation because of wage inflexibility.

The Fair Tax will be massively unfair to people who reside where the cost of living is high.

The Fair Tax will create the biggest entitlement in American history.

The Fair Tax will not be immune from political manipulation, insane complication and black or gray markets.

PS – Speaking of stupidity, Boortz outdoes himself with this:

Remember the AIDS “epidemic?” Several years ago people were calling for my head because I repeatedly said that there was NO AIDS epidemic in the U.S. Now it seems that less than 1% of adults in the U.S. have HIV. Some epidemic, huh?

So if a million people dropped dead of ebola, you wouldn’t think we have an epidemic on our hands?