More anecdotal evidence: I have also met Persians (members of Iran's ethnic majority group) who either hate religion or are agnostic because of their experience in the Islamic Republic. Some have told me plainly that the Islamic Republic has indeed driven lots of Persians into closeted atheism, closeted agnosticism, closeted religious syncretism, or closeted religious conversion. Open versions of any such changes among ethnic Persians in Iran are less common because of the great likelihood of getting caught and physically persecuted. Nihilistic and pointlessly risky personal choices and behaviors are not unusual among urban adolescents and young adults there.

Disgusting!

Article I Section 9: This is a good point. Is the implied agent of the passive verb only the Congress, or any taxing authority in the USA? Article I Section 10: This bill, coming from Congress, would provide exactly the consent that is required.

Right on Wendy! Editors, where are you?

The Fair Tax Plan avoids the 9-9-9 plan's problems: * no federal payroll and income taxes = lots more take-home pay for employees and take-home profits for entrepreneurs, more than compensating for the disappearance of the deductions and credits. * the "prebate" = removing the tax burden from the purchases of necessities at poverty-level incomes, adjusted for the types and sizes of households. I like Mr. Cain's campaign except for his 9-9-9 plan.

Right on Johnny L.!

Dear Townhall.com editors, I think this piece and its writer deserve a thorough investigation. Every one of Ms. Keene's objections has been either exposed as a misrepresentation of the FairTax Plan or refuted as a misunderstanding of it, and both for some time now.

I think this is one reason that the FairTax would apply to services; lots of spending by "the rich" is on services.

Right on! The editors of Townhall need to intervene against this piece and ask its author some pointed questions.

At the time of the switchover, the Fair Tax Act would set up a small bureau, separate from the IRS, to receive the tax collections and set up the collections from the states that do not practice sales tax. The IRS would be restricted for three years to finishing up all enforcement for collections and prosecutions from before the switchover. At the end of those three years the Fair Tax Act would utterly eliminate the agency named the IRS and order the destruction of all IRS records, and the small new bureau would remain.