Jay Bookman of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution offers a pretty succinct dissection of Mike Huckabee’s fair-tax plan, showing how it is really nothing more than conservative fool’s gold and bad news for working people.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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Hank Kalet 
The fair tax, Forbes\’ flat tax, (for billionaires), health saving accounts, Social Security reform, (privatized Social Security) and replacing traditional pensions with 401Ks are all right wing blather and snake oil. Sadly, many ordinary Americans, who would suffer the most from these right wing fantasies, are falling for this garbage.