Beavercreek, OH FairTax Group

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Comment by Frank Gilbert on December 26, 2011 at 7:34pm

Didn't recall seeing this here before. If I'm wrong, my bad. But we need to get behind this folks!

A note from FairTax Regional Director, Phil Hinson:

As most of you are aware, HR 1040 is the only flat tax bill in the House of Representatives, which is where tax reform legislation is supposed to originate in our system of government. I just checked on it and here is what I found.
The bill is now up to 10 co-sponsors. Hr 25 has 66.

... http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d112%3A1%3A.%2Ftemp%2F%7Ebd...|/home/LegislativeData.php|

POPVOX shows 773 votes recorded on the HR 1040 page with 68% opposed. HR 25 has vote a total of 5,276 with 80% in favor. That means that approximately 4,221 voters have registered their support for HR 25, while 248 have voted for HR 1040.

https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr1040/report#nation
Thanks to everyone who voted for HR 25 on POPVOX in 2011. If you have not yet voted, please do so this week. It only takes a few minutes.

Phil

Comment by Frank Gilbert on December 25, 2011 at 11:20pm

Just sent an e-mail to WIN America asking them to consider using the FairTax as their standard as it is an already established bill (HR25/S13) and has cosponsors in each house, has been well researched, and meets their needs. I also made it clear politely that i expected a response. We'll see what happens.

Comment by Frank Gilbert on December 23, 2011 at 10:00pm

Latest FairTax column in the Fairborn Daily Herald by our gifted state director Steve Curtis. Enjoy!

Comment by Frank Gilbert on December 17, 2011 at 10:40pm

Walt Bagley has a great idea.
Phone calls to a Congressional office get answered by one clerk and recorded on a log sheet. That sheet gets looked at to see what areas received the most calls or other activity. It only effects one person in the office for a few seconds. Think about something else.

If you prepare a short letter to the congressperson and FAX it to the office. (still a phone call expense) A clerk in the office must pick up the fax and read through it in order to log it in. Then what do they do with the letter? Pass it along to the tax staff person to respond? If an office is flooded with faxes, someone must refill the paper in the machine, there would be stacks of paper produced to be handled and filed etc. This would create more activity in the office than just making a phone call and maybe get more of an impact.

This is something we could work on here next year folks. Look for it in an upcoming meeting.

Comment by Frank Gilbert on December 16, 2011 at 10:12pm

On 12-15-11 the Fairborn Daily Herald posted state director Steve Curtis latest column "Congress and the FairTax". Well worth the read. The newspaper also published a letter to the editor from Bill Teti (Fairborn resident and FairTax friend) regarding the FairTax.

12-16-11 the Fairborn Daily Herald has a commentary on the editorial pages by a guy name of William Rice regarding taxes and the "rich". The title is "the rich don't need a free ride" and may be found on www.otherwords.org WARNING, he is a leftie!!

Lastly, I just want to point out that our local hometown newspaper is continuing to do its job by keeping the tax reform issue alive. Do we know any other paper that is doing this? I sure don't.

Comment by Frank Gilbert on December 13, 2011 at 8:11pm

Dec. 9, 2011 Fairborn Daily Herald "FairTax Column" by Steve Curtis (state director) was a very timely one. The FairTax and how it could effect our Christmas shopping. Hopefully, its recieved some attention and generated some thinking. Don't forget, you can go to www.ohfairtax.org and see previous columns. Go ahead and use them. That's what they're there for.

The paper was also great about making sure they put in my announcement of no meeting this month because of the Christmas holiday season. Looking forward to January already!

Comment by Frank Gilbert on December 2, 2011 at 9:47pm

Today, in the Fairborn Daily Herald appears my favorite Steve Curtis column. If you don't get the drift here, you aren't ever going to understand the need for the FairTax. Entitled "The Income Tax: Revanue raiser or tool of tyrants", this eye opening column should be shared around the nation. If you'd like to read it (and you really should), go to www.ohfairtax.org in a couple of days and click on "fairtaxfacts" Well worth the time my FairTax friends!!!

Comment by Frank Gilbert on November 22, 2011 at 10:11pm

The Fairborn Daily Herald has published the tax issue in their editorial section three days in a row. I think they get it folks. Nov. 18, 19, and 22 all had columns, one of which was our FairTax column. Kudos to our local newspaper for keeping the issue in our faces.

Comment by Frank Gilbert on November 22, 2011 at 7:13am

Folks, One thing I failed to mention along with my message about Steve's column was the column that appeared the day before. It was also about tax reform and approached the issue by saying the rich need to pay their "fairshare" and corporations need to pay more taxes. This is the mentality we are up against. And we need to keep spreading the word far and wide. Look for these types of columns in your local papers and respond to them. Let them know that the "rich" already pay their "fairshare" and then some. Let them know that by taxing corporations, we are simply adding taxes to ourselves. And let them know we all need a "fairshare" in supporting our government. I'll look for a way to put that column on here even if I have to type it in one word at a time.

In the meantime, be sure to visit www.ohfairtax.org and read up on the many great columns our stae director has written. Share them far and wide and lets really make an even larger push for the FairTax in 2012.

Comment by Billie on November 20, 2011 at 9:04pm

Nice work Frank.  Keep it up.  Hey folks please read Frank's comments and buy the Fairborn paper and read Steve's column.  Talk to your neighbors and talk to your family about FairTax and have them join Five for Five. 

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