Faix Tax MythBusters: Who Pays? – Citizen v. Machine

Under the Fair Tax, the Bottom 80% of taxpayers – anyone earning under $109,500 –  will have one of the highest tax burdens in the country. Fair Tax proponents knew this yet did nothing about it. And now the Fair Tax will own this because it will be the new barometer by which all future tax increases will be based. There is simply no getting around the fact that property and sales taxes are the true components of tax burden for the Bottom 80% in Illinois, not state income tax.