Sir: As a hardworking employee, I have always been dismayed at how much money I do not take home due to federal income and payroll taxes. ‘Americans for Fair Taxation’ is proposing a consumer-oriented, fair tax proposal that will benefit taxpayers and not the IRS. The middle class, the majority of the population, will be better off under this new tax system. They, not the government, will control the amount they pay in taxes because they control what and how much they purchase. The ‘fair tax’ will continue to fund the government at its current level so that government programmes will continue, and social security and medicare benefits will continue just like they did before. The middle class will not be the only ones to benefit from the fair tax because poverty-level Americans will pay no federal tax at all. They will no longer pay the highly regressive payroll tax imposed on the very first dollar earned, and they, like all Americans, will no longer pay 20 percent to 30 percent in hidden federal income taxes every time they spend a dollar. That is right, 20 percent to 30 percent of every dollar spent goes to the government to pay hidden federal taxes, including corporate income and payroll taxes that businesses pass on to consumers in the form of higher prices. MOEED UR REHMAN Karachi