THE NOT-SO-FAIR TAX

Contrary to AEI's pessimism, the Huckster backs the Fair Tax and that would be great for the top 1%. From the NY Times:

“Even with the rebate counted the way FairTax supporters want it calculated,” said Bruce Bartlett, a conservative tax analyst and policy maker in the Reagan administration who has emerged as one of the proposal’s most powerful critics, “there would be an enormous shift in the tax burden from the wealthy to those with lower and middle incomes.”