I know the Fair Tax has many bright points - but such a major change surely will have consequences - Do you know what they are?  

Most people simply can not "picture" this tax senario in their minds.  

So, before you go thinking that a 9.75% sales tax is big, account for the fact that the on-the-shelf price will be very much lower when businesses don't have to pad their prices to account for confiscatory state taxation practices.  In other words, instead of paying sales tax on a dollar, you'll be paying it on eighty cents.  (Referring to purchase price difference here.)

And also note that used goods will never be taxed again.  That's right, no sales tax on used cars, appliances, clothes, and so forth.

Additionally, the tax system will no longer care how you earn your money (including prostitutes, drug dealers, gamblers, and illegal immigrants).  We'll only worry about when you spend it.

As a concrete illustration, allow me this example:  In the course of collecting signatures for the MFTP, I personally reached into 47 counties in this state, and as a result had many conversations with many gas station owners.  I always asked them how much they could reduce their at-the-pump prices if they didn't have to concern themselves with state business taxes anymore.

Their answers ranged from 30 to 45 cents.

I then would ask them to extend that tax relief to their entire supply chain, from the point that it crossed the state line.

After doing a little figuring, they typically returned with a figure of ONE DOLLAR PER GALLON.

Yup, that's how much you're paying at the pump to cover Michigan's business taxation.