#518 Tax Reform Goals - Part 2

April 8, 2026·30 min·2 clips

Under the FairTax, you feed your family first before paying any tax.

They dig right in. Bob Paxton, Bob Scarborough, and John Gaver return to the 22 goals for effective tax reform from Gaver's book, The Tax Deception. Four goals are already covered, which still leaves plenty on the list. Nobody sounds too convinced they will finish it all today. The pace stays brisk and practical. Then the tax gap comes up, meaning the difference between what is owed and what actually gets collected. That gets treated as a biggie. Gaver says the latest tax gap report is for 2022, with 2023 data expected soon. The numbers are not small. He cites 15 percent before enforcement and 13.1 percent after enforcement, then points to foreign earned income and cryptocurrency gains that he says the IRS cannot estimate. There is the can of worms. The case is that income tax leaves too many places for money to hide or never show up at all. Then comes the cash register. In the FAIRtax argument, collection shifts to retail sales, where the top 10 percent of businesses handle 90 percent of retail sales. That matters to them. Big box stores, automobile manufacturers, point-of-sale systems, and inventory systems become the plain contrast to chasing income tax evasion. The rebuttal is simple: collect the tax where people buy, and compliance becomes tied to systems businesses already use. The familiar close follows: bring home what you make, stop taxing saving and accumulating wealth, lower business costs, and tax consumption when it happens.

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A brisk, advocacy-first look at John Gaver's tax reform goals and the Fair Tax argument for shifting collection to the cash register.

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