Support Fair Tax

Ok, I'm once again going off the reservation/plantation (from the standpoint of many of my friends) by supporting the Fair Tax. We need a simpler, yet fair tax system. We need to eliminate the huge tax bureaucracy. And I have always found the intrusiveness of the tax system (invasion of privacy) at odds with the notion that government should be "of the people" not above the people. The irony is that, while I lived in Oregon, I opposed creating a sales tax, despite at one point working as an intern for Mayor Goldschmidt, who supported the sales tax idea. If Oregon had a sales tax and no income tax, then I would have been even happier, and certainly would not have wanted to institute an income tax.