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Name or Internet Handle: Robert Dell

City, Town or County: Atlanta

State / U.S. Territory: GA

Zip Code: 30350

U.S. Congressional District Number: GA 6th (Tom Price)

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A Fair Tax for Progressives

Posted on April 19, 2012 at 9:47am 5 Comments 2 Likes

The FairTax continues to be perceived as a "conservative" or "Republican" initiative, and, of course, there's a lot for conservatives to like about it. But properly understood, the FairTax should be widely viewed as a conservative-progressive "win-win". The key, it seems to me, is for open-minded progressives to accept (or at least think about) the proposition that a tax is more truly progressive if it taxes the most the people who consume the most. That's the point I tried to make in…

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The Political Basis for the FairTax

Posted on June 12, 2011 at 3:21pm 3 Comments 1 Like

A few weeks ago, David Tuerck and I co-authored this opinion piece for American Thinker(http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/05/the_political_basis_for_the_fa.html). David is head of the economics department of Suffolk University in Boston and has done much of the foundational research on the FairTax.

One purpose of this article is to advance the flat tax vs. Fairtax debate by…

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At 9:00pm on March 28, 2011, Marilyn Rickert said…: Welcome to Fair Tax Nation!

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At 6:45am on March 28, 2011, Jamie Wheeler WA said…

Welcome to FTN Robert,

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