Figuring out Rick Perry’s current position on the 16th Amendment and the so-called Fair Tax is the parlor game of the moment in politics. See Greg Sargent here, and CBS here. His campaign released a recent statement suggesting that though Perry backs the “Fair Tax” option in his book, altering the Constitution and implementing an actual national consumption tax is probably too heavy a lift.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=108012