Actually ... it's an illustrated book. All I need is an illustrator.

Here's the idea. The book features a typical American family. This family has never known anything other than the FairTax. The breadwinner has always received his entire paycheck every payday. There has never been a dime withheld for income taxes, Medicare taxes or Social Security taxes. This family has never paid a penny in dividend taxes or capital gains taxes. They've never had to pay taxes on the interest they earn in their savings accounts or the profits they earn from their investments. They've never filed a federal tax return. In fact, they've never filled out a federal tax form. What's more, they have never had to worry about how much death tax the government was going to take when the breadwinner went tango uniform. The only time this family has ever had to pay a dime in taxes is when they purchased some item or service at the retail level.

Now ... along comes a politician with a wonderful new idea. He wants to change the tax system. He's trying to convince this family that they would be much happier of the federal government would tax 35% of everything they earn instead of just 23% of everything they spend. He is trying to convince them to support a new tax system whereby the government would take the taxes straight out of their paychecks. They would also have to pay separate taxes for Social Security and Medicare. In addition, they would pay taxes on any stock dividends they earn, as well as the interest from their savings accounts. Where they once had no tax compliance costs, they would now have to hire accounts to figure out their taxes for them. Where they once had no federal forms to fill out, they would now have to spend an average of 55 hours a year on federal tax forms. And ... to top it all off ... when they die the federal government would step in and take about 45% of everything that is left.

The illustrated book would show the shock, derision and outright disbelief that this family would show as this political hack tried to sell them on the very tax system so many of us suffer under today.

Whaddayathink?