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

Operation 100 FairTax Cosponsors

Congressman John Linder has introduced the FairTax, HR 25, into the 11th Congress with 34 cosponsors. We need 100 cosponsors. We need a plan...

Marilyn Rickert

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Permalink Reply by Ken Hoagland on March 9, 2009 at 11:14am

Congressman Ted Poe's office just told me that he will be coming back aboard. Gresham Barrett's office told state director, Jack Jackson of South Carolina that he wants to co-sponsor and is waiting contact from Mr. Linder. That's two more.

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Permalink Reply by Jim Tomasik on March 9, 2009 at 11:45am

Hey Ken,

Whats the story with Rep. Dan Boren?

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Permalink Reply by Ken Hoagland on March 9, 2009 at 2:40pm

Jim, his office told me three weeks ao that he still believes in the FairTax but has decided not to cosponsor "so many" bills this year. I've passed this along to the Oklahoma State Director and we did place one of the full page ads in the Tulsa World News.

As with then rest of the delegation, hometown advocates will have to bring him back on board.

They did it before and I believe they can do it again --and it is so important to have Democrats like Mr. Boren.

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Permalink Reply by Marc on March 12, 2009 at 7:28pm

It's kind of difficult to come up with a plan for 100 co-sponsors. I think it all boils down to is that the people that say they don't support it are a) so far against it they won't dare to support a plan so radical and have their own agendas, or b) have considered it and are being negativly influenced by false information or some other media. Thankfully we have the supporters we have. I'm hoping March 17th's discussion will open a few more eyes up there in Congress. It's nice to know that at least someone up there is recognizing the issue we have in our current tax system. Mr. King...I'm behind ya all the way!

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Permalink Reply by Nancy L. Gatchel on April 6, 2009 at 6:12pm

How many cosponsors do we have today, 4/6/09?

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Permalink Reply by Peter D. on April 6, 2009 at 6:34pm

According to the House site, still at 51.

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Permalink Reply by Dan Hunt on April 6, 2009 at 6:52pm

I posted last month that during the last two sessions of Congress the number of cosponsors dropped off dramatically after March of the first year. During the 110th there were 58 cosponsors in the first three months but only 18 more cosponsors for the remainder of the session. This problem needs to be addressed.

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Permalink Reply by Nancy L. Gatchel on June 5, 2009 at 10:28am

Do we know who those most likely to support FairTax are? I would really like systematically work on this goal.

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Permalink Reply by Dennis Wall on June 5, 2009 at 10:46am

I just went to Fairtax.org site and counted 72 REP and 10 Senators for the Fairtax

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Permalink Reply by Dan Hunt on June 5, 2009 at 11:16am

I'm not sure where you saw those figures. According to http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.25: there are 54 cosponsors in the House Of Representatives and 4 cosponsors in the Senate.