Your viewing it as not socialist doesn't mean it isn't. Monopolies are capitalist, it's the companies elimianting others so they can make money.
The problem you have is that your view of captialism isn't capitalism, it's some sort of psuedo optimistic moral capitalism.
A true captialist world is one where the Free Market decides everything and the government has NO controls in the market.
Captialism doesn't have morals. Capitalism is a system in which the means of production are owned for the purpose of generating profit.
Pure capitalism is economic Darwinism. There is no place in profit for charity.
Capitalism is a "get yours first" system. Then hope the "Invisible hand of the market" takes care of everyone else.
We can agree however that the department of education should be disbanded. I've even seen the head of the department of education admit that they couldn't really do anything to fix it, it was the states duty.
The federal government should just cut the states 50 checks if they want to help education and let the states deal with it.
Also, i still haven't seen what would stop the government from deficit spending whenever the expected tax revenue didn't meet what they had originally budgeted for.
What i see from the fair tax is what happens now. The government constantly inflating whenever the taxes outstripe the budget, and the government not deflating and deficit spending when the taxes are less then expected. Considering how more unstable a tax like this would be, it seems like the effects of this will be worse...
and THIS is what i consider the number 1 problem of taxes. The governments abuse of them to inflate, and then just raise taxes if they keep spending in deficit.
