Rush Limbaush and the Fair Tax

This is an excerpt out of the Limbaugh Letter -



I have long championed radical tax reform, as you know. I’ve leaned toward the flat tax, rather than a Boortz-Linder-style consumption tax. But The Fair Tax Book is a serious argument, offering, as the authors say, “tremendous hope” that ordinary Americans can force the Beltway to repeal some 54,000 pages of growth-killing, freedom-limiting, Internal Revenue Code gobbledygook. Besides, any book that uses my term, “the achievers,” instead of “the rich” — and that pushes to reclaim the economic liberty our Founders shed blood to protect — is worth reading.



My question is if Rush made this statement, why does he continually state on his radio show that the Fair Tax "doesn't have a chance in hell of passing"? It seems to me that if joined and got behind the movement, that the Fair Tax would then have a much greater chance of passing. However when makes statements like this he has got to know that it demoralizes those that are in support of this movement.



I just don't understand how he could write a positive review about the Fair Tax like he did above, then occassionaly and subtly make negative comments about it from time to time on his show. Honestly I just don't get it. What else is out there that even comes close to the Fair Tax movement when it comes to a complete solution to the enormous income tax problem? Just think, if all of the "big" conservative radio talk show hosts got solidly behind this movement, there would be no chance in hell of it not passing!