Freedom Works is running Flat Tax vs FairTax Poll as Google Ads!

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Permalink Reply by Randy Stone on April 9, 2009 at 7:13am

Went there and it was gone. First time I visited that site. Surprised to find so many Fair Tax icons, videos and links!

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Permalink Reply by alfairtax-Kelley Frederick on April 9, 2009 at 8:27am

Randy, Googles ads are rolling ads and are replaced every few minutes or hours(not sure) they link them up with page and blog content. FairTax could do the same but check back on the Murphy Monkey Blog later to see.

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Permalink Reply by Sean Fagan on April 9, 2009 at 7:55am

Does the ad actually allow a person to vote or does it just take them to freedom works page where they can then take the poll? Which, by the way, defaults to the flat tax - and as a result, some fair tax supporters have unintentionally voted for while it is clear they intended to vote for the fair tax. Current poll results show 82% Fair Tax, 18% flat tax.

However, a Google ad for FTN might be a good idea.

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Permalink Reply by alfairtax-Kelley Frederick on April 9, 2009 at 8:34am

Five years ago flat tax was almost dead! Now it has had a resurgence, I think, because there is money to be made around the issue. Look at all the think tanks that have cropped up lately, American Solutions, FreedomWorks etc etc. Sen. Shelby is a Flat Taxer and God knows we've hammered him bunches here in Alabama to join us but he refuses too and Sen Sessions aired a debate on his weekly show between the FairTax and flat tax(Linder and Armey) a couple of years ago but he won't sign on if Shelby won't so I say vote them out. Oddly enough, I spoke to an organizer of one of the Tea Parties and he didn't have a lot of info. on either one but tended to know more about the flat tax. I told him like I tell my 8 year old, all he needs to remember is FairTax Good, Flat Tax Bad. Then I politely told him that the flat tax plan is just that flat. It only tweaks our current broken system, yada yada yada, you get it. I had his ear and then I owned him.

Someone needs to check on the cost of google ads. I'm a graphic designer and could do a nice ad that could say, "ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW IS: FAIR TAX GOOD" or "FAIRTAX GOOD flat tax bad" that would elicit alot of attention.

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Permalink Reply by Jim Tomasik on April 9, 2009 at 9:13am

How would we pay for this ad on Google?

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Permalink Reply by alfairtax-Kelley Frederick on April 9, 2009 at 9:20am

Jim as a representative of FTN you could contact all 51 cosponsors and ask for a donation for running the ads. Tell them to put our money where their mouth is. Have we asked them to chip in yet? Don't you dare laugh at my suggestion. We can start there.

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Permalink Reply by Jim Tomasik on April 9, 2009 at 2:52pm

I never thought of that. hmmmmm......

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Permalink Reply by Jim Tomasik on April 9, 2009 at 2:53pm

wee need to buy in ourselves and match those costs.

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Permalink Reply by Jim Tomasik on April 9, 2009 at 2:53pm

do me the favor and find out the cost of running such an ad. I am covered up at the moment.

We can divide the cost by the number of cosponsors willing to help...

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Permalink Reply by Joshua on April 9, 2009 at 4:11pm

That's not a google ad, because google only does text ads. But we might want to think about running some google ads ourselves. It's pretty easy to set up, I've done it myself before. And when you place an ad, you pay per click. So say if you want 100 clicks, you pay like 5 bucks, and it runs until you get 100, then it stops. http://www.google.com/adsense

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Permalink Reply by alfairtax-Kelley Frederick on April 9, 2009 at 5:22pm

Joshua, go look at the advertisement again. It says AD BY GOOGLE at the bottom. They are going graphic ads now.

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