Practically speaking, the prebate provision contained within the Fair Tax will negate any advantage after the new bureaucracy is created to administer and maintain the distribution of this new entitlement is implemented, but that's best saved for another discussion.

Individually speaking, the pension tax isn't offset by any reduction in any of the other taxes we pay.

And I haven't even begun to go into Gov Snyder's plan to keep the income tax rate at the higher level, instead of lowering it back to 3.9% where it belongs.

Betsy DeVos admonished Republicans back in Nov '03 when Gov. Granholm wanted to do the same thing.