Replace All Federal Taxes on Income with the Fair Tax Act , HR 25 and S 122

Ben Stein started a discussion about the National Retail Sales Tax

Ben Stein How Not to Ruin Your Life

Big Brother and Your Taxes
by Ben Stein

Posted on Monday, April 20, 2009, 12:00AM

http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/article/yourlife/157722

It sounds like privacy issues are finally making the Fair Tax seem much more reasonable to Ben Stein. This is good news because he's a great communicator in the national spotlight.

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Permalink Reply by Nancy L. Gatchel on April 22, 2009 at 8:31pm

Great reality check. More citizens ought to read this. Makes the Fair Tax look really good, which we all know it is.

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Permalink Reply by Sean Fagan on April 22, 2009 at 9:52pm

We should make the most use of this as possible - perhaps display it at all events we attend.

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Permalink Reply by Tony on April 23, 2009 at 8:58pm

I do love Mark Stein.
I enjoy listening to him when he covers for Rush.....I prefer him actually.

Great news on this....on Yahoo too :)
EDUCATION EDUCATION EDUCATION!!! :)

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Permalink Reply by Deborah in Ohio on April 26, 2009 at 3:26pm

This is "Ben" Stein -- who created the documentary, "Expelled - No Intelligence Allowed" about the case for creationism. I have the DVD and it is Awesome! He's the Jewish entrepreneur who appears on Fox Business Network on Sat. mornings.

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Permalink Reply by Michael D. Warlick, Sr. on April 24, 2009 at 8:14pm

I believe we need to capitalize on this. In GA, we've talked about finding a nationally known and respected individual to become an official spokesperson for FairTax. As 9th District Director, I even sent an email to Ben Stein encouraging him to learn more about FairTax. No response so far, but maybe now is the time to try again. The most effective spokesman (or spokeswoman) is someone who had doubts, read the books, studied the issue, and then became an enthusiastic supporter. Perhaps Ken Hoagland of AFFT, Marilyn Rickert and Jim Tomasik could jointly approach Mr. Stein?

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Permalink Reply by John Steinberger on April 29, 2009 at 9:10am

On Saturday's Cavuto On Business program, Ben Stein was given a chance to discuss his commentary about opposing the income tax on privacy grounds. Rather than mentioning a national sales tax (note that Stein didn't use the term FairTax in his commentary), Stein said he'd rather pay a 50% marginal tax rate than have the risk of an audit at a lower rate.

It is possible that the Fox Business staff has a bias against FairTax and do not want it discussed on their programs. Please e-mail at cavuto@foxnews.com and encourage them to have a debate on FairTax.