If $23 goes to the government for tax, that means that the item price (pre-tax) was $77.To get an apples-to-apples comparison of the tax rate under the Fair Tax, we'd need to use the same formula as above:[$100 - $77] / $77 = 29.8%In other words, the Fair Tax guys decided to use a mathematical trick (tax-inclusiveness vs tax-exclusiveness) to make the tax percentage sound smaller.The FairTax.org website freely admits this, though they do their best to bury the information.

If you want to give that distinction to anyone, I would vote for Pope Urban VIII, who pretty-much single-handedly discredited Copernicus and Galileo, and kept the heliocentric theory from taking hold for about 200 years, despite irrefutable mathematical proof.That set us back about two centuries

Have a BA in mathematics and Masters in Accounting.

It would end up being mathematically identical, assuming everyone is doing their math correctly. 

This is no where close to being resolved, anyone who says this is a few week or in 2 months has a lack of understanding of;1. mathematically how fast this is spreading (0 cases 2/01 to 100k today 3/28) 2.

The thing about ML is that it's just mathematical modeling that uses a fairly simple optimization technique.

What I did here is mathematics. 

Second when you state "I can not mathematically make financing work" what you are saying is you do not understand investing and finances.

It depends on the person and what return they can get on there money you can mathematically determine which route is best by doing a discounted cash flow analysis to compare the three strategies.

BS in computer science and MS in financial mathematics - the study of math equations behind exotic instruments such as options, futures, CDO's, CDO^2 (yeah that thing that blew up the housing market back in 2008).