Any "tax" that a business pays is a cost of doing business. That cost is passed on to the consumer. You pay the businesses taxes when you buy their product or service. It is a hidden cost, imbedded in the price of the product or service that the business offere for sale. The Fair Tax would eliminate these imbedded costs.

I agree.

Here's some actual data from the SS Administration Statement that I received. Over the last 42 years my employers and I have patd $83,815 in SS taxes. When I retire in a year at age 62, I may receive $1,006 a month. So in 7 years I will have used up all that the govm't collected from me. At that point I will be living on the dole, as some describe. If I die before I reach age 62, my heirs will receive nothing. For a few years I worked for the PO, and contributed 10% of my wages into the Thrift Savings Plan, like the Congressmen have. The govm't matched 3%. I also paid SS taxes. I quit that job after accumulating $100G and the govm't purchased an annuity with the money, from which I get $450 a month, until I die. When I die, my...