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

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Focus on Income Tax Evils

I would appreciate comments on this: Any details of The FairTax should be discussed only after the absolute neccesity of reverting back to the Constitutional principle of indirect taxation is understood.

The reason I say this is because I have for 4 years been fielding comments at speeches and on blog posts about nit-picking details of The FairTax that folks (usually so-called Conservative Republicans) toss about with glee and abandon. There is no end to this nonesense, it… Continue

Added by FairTaxWarrior on May 28, 2009 at 12:14am — 2 Comments

States with no income tax are doing better then states with no sales tax.

Looking at it from this angle overly simplifies each state, but adding up the numbers

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Data extracted on: May 22, 2009

States with no income tax have a labor force of 26,845,500 and 2,183,200 unemployed for an average unemployment rate of 8.13%

States with no sales tax have a labor force of 5,824,300 and 541,600 unemployed for an unemployment rate of 9.3%

States with no income… Continue

Added by Keith Reynolds on May 26, 2009 at 11:29pm — No Comments

1000 Miles for FairTax

Thoughts from the Back of the FairTax Bike by Carol Adams McLean, newlywed to Mike McLean owner of the FairTax Bike and Grass Roots Freedom Ride Director.

Never in my life did I think I would be one of those women on the back of a bike out on the Interstate. Last week, given good reasons - to support our veterans and the FairTax, I hopped on the back of the FairTax bike to head out to Rolling Thunder this Memorial Day. So we packed up the… Continue

Added by Carol Adams McLean on May 26, 2009 at 11:30am — 5 Comments

self discovery

I believe that self discovery is the very best way to introduce someone to something new. By introducing the Fair Tax in a benign way, not for or against you give them the opportunity to discover for them self what it is and if they should support it. I know that I'm sceptical any time that anyone tries to convince me of anything.

Added by Brian , FL on May 22, 2009 at 10:12am — No Comments

Spread the news

Here's a simple way to spread the news about the Fair Tax. Get some of those pocket sized info cards and carry them with you in your vehicle. When ever you stop to get gas put 2 or 3 in your pocket when you get out to go inside to pay. When you get inside ask any one there if they know what your cards are. Then explain that some one gave them to you and gave you some basic facts about the Fair tax. Tell them that it sound interesting to you and ask them if they would like to have one of your… Continue

Added by Brian , FL on May 21, 2009 at 8:05pm — No Comments

Who would like an oppertunity?

As many of you know, I will be sharing the fair tax with a group of shelby citizens this satarday and I hope that It will be a start towards building a coilition in shelby, ohio. I will be making an appointment to meet with the shelby newspaper editor today and I hope that I will be able to convince her to at least allow a publishing of the fair tax point of view.

The Shelby memorial library staff has told me that the library offers conference room reservations at no cost and the… Continue

Added by Josh Gregg on May 18, 2009 at 4:56pm — No Comments

GA Republican Party endorses the FairTax!

This year's GOP State Convention was held in the Convention Center in Savannah, Georgia. Supplies and banners were brought in by Lyn Williamson, 4th DD and setup of the booth was THE prime location for all delegates and attendees to come by our booth. In addition, we were flanked by the two top contenders for next year's governors race, Karen Handel and John Oxendine. Cong. John Linder along with other elected officials came by on Friday and Saturday during the convention which also had Herman… Continue

Added by Marilyn Rickert on May 18, 2009 at 9:47am — 4 Comments

Congressional Letter Writing Campaign

We have started a letter writing campaign. It is part of an "Initiation Packet". Here is what we are trying to do and what is included to make it easy to do.

• The Congressional Letter Writing Campaign will come with 12 envelopes, stamped and addressed to your Congressman, a supply of FairTax address label size stickers for the closure flap and 12 letters or examples of letters. When signing up you will be given a certain day of the month. So if you live in District 3 and are… Continue

Added by Bob Martin on May 17, 2009 at 8:54pm — No Comments

Glenn Beck Comedy Tour - Bet lots of FairTaxers who are also 9-12 supporters will attend

Time: June 4, 2009 from 8pm to 9pm

Location: Regal Hollywood-20

Organized By: Ryan Croft

Event Description:

Glenn Beck's Common Sense Tour

LIVE 06/04/2009 with Encore on 06/11/2009

Glenn Beck is back on the big screen! NCM Fathom and Mercury Radio Arts present Glenn Beck's Common Sense Tour LIVE from the Midland Theatre in Kansas City to over 700 movie theaters nationwide. This One Night LIVE event takes place on Thursday, June 4th at 8:00pm ET /… Continue

Added by Laura McCue on May 14, 2009 at 10:53am — No Comments

Important Midwest Rally Travel Information

Travel information for everyone who would like to plan on attending the Midwest Rally

http://www.midwestrally.com/

1. Food will be available from 8 am through the evening. Banks and Shane will be performing starting around 4 pm and will continue until people are gone...they said they will play till 10 pm if folks are lovin' it!!! I think that most will be exausted by that time, but who knows???

2. Hotel -- Block of rooms at the Hilton Garden Inn 1 mile from the… Continue

Added by Marilyn Rickert on May 14, 2009 at 9:51am — 2 Comments

Making Big Business Pay=Making Us Pay More

Making Big Business Pay Their Fair Share of Taxes by Ken Hoagland When you hear any politician indignantly demanding that corporations finally, “pay their fair share of taxes,” look to your own wallet. Corporations don’t have a secret cache of money to pay taxes nor do CEO’s take it from executive compensation. These taxes are always paid by workers, consumers and stockholders. The recent shocking, shocking revelation that American businesses are… Continue

Added by Jim Tomasik on May 13, 2009 at 3:30pm — 8 Comments

Making Big Business Pay=Making Us Pay More

Making Big Business Pay Their Fair Share of Taxes

by

Ken Hoagland

When you hear any politician indignantly demanding that corporations finally, “pay their fair share of taxes,” look to your own wallet. Corporations don’t have a secret cache of money to pay taxes nor do CEO’s take it from executive compensation. These taxes are always paid by workers, consumers and stockholders.

The recent shocking, shocking revelation that American businesses are sheltering their… Continue

Added by Ken Hoagland on May 13, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Never-Ending Government Lies About Markets

Mises Daily by Thomas J. DiLorenzo | Posted on 5/13/2009 12:00:00 AM

The purpose of government is for those who run it to plunder those who do not. Throughout history, governments have used violence, intimidation, coercion, and mass murder to enforce this system. But governments' first line of "defense" is always a blizzard of lies — about its own alleged benevolence, altruism, heroism, and greatness, along with equally big lies about the "evils" of the civil society, especially the… Continue

Added by Mark and Aracelis Thompson on May 13, 2009 at 11:08am — No Comments

Why Michigan’s Tea Parties Should Unite Behind Replacing MI’s Income Tax with the MI FairTax

We, the people of Michigan, are alarmed, and we have taken to the streets because of what we sense is the loss of proper respect and service by those we’ve sent to Lansing (and Washington) to represent US! However, unless our Michigan Tea Parties can channel energy into a vehicle of concrete action, the past century has shown us that we’re likely to continue to proceed down the path to less freedom, fewer liberties, less economic opportunity, more taxes, and larger… Continue

Added by Daar Fisher on May 13, 2009 at 12:47am — No Comments

The Solution

"People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not." - Neil Postman
FairTax - the solution

Added by Tim on May 11, 2009 at 6:41pm — No Comments

Obama Healthcare plan

The Obama single payer healthcare plan offers us another insight into why we need to abolish the IRS. The plan offers employers a tax break for policing their employees in four ways! The employer is rewarded for employees that are non-smokers, not overweight, proper diet, and their exercise program. Employers will have the ability to enforce these new rules because this will be an act of Congress and will support the employer/government in any cases that may arise in court due to the new… Continue

Added by Curtis R. Pack on May 10, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

US Foreign Debt jumps to 35% of GDP

By Raymond Richman, Howard Richman, and Jesse Richman On April 21, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) projected (see the World Economic Outlook, pp. 36-37) that the US foreign debt will increase from about 4.5% of world GDP in 2007 to about 9% in 2009. Given that the US foreign debt was 17.7% of US GDP at the end of 2007, this means that our foreign debt will be about 35% of US GDP by the end of this year as shown in the red line on the graph below US foreign debt tends to increase when the… Continue

Added by Mark and Aracelis Thompson on May 10, 2009 at 3:42pm — 5 Comments

New Senate Co-Sponsor for FairTax

It's now public. Senator Richard Burr, R-NC, announced this week that he has

become a co-sponsor of S296, The Fair Tax Act of 2009. Senator Burr is the first

new Senate co-sponsor in several years. The Sponsor of the FairTax in the Senate

is Saxby Chambliss [R, GA].

The 4 Co-Sponsors now are:

Sen. Richard Burr [R, NC]

Sen. Thomas Coburn [R, OK]

Sen. John Cornyn [R, TX]

Sen. John Isakson [R, GA]

~Jim

~Jim Bennett

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Added by Jim Bennett on May 10, 2009 at 1:56pm — No Comments

National Small Business Association

I replied:

Thank you, Molly.

Let me suggest another approach. Would you be willing to contact your New Jersey members and ask them whether they would let FairTax volunteers place holders with pocket cards (proof sample attached) in their businesses? If any respond positively, you can let me know who they are.

Best regards,

~Jim Bennett

State Volunteer Co-Director

Americans for Fair Taxation

-----Original Message-----

From: Molly… Continue

Added by Jim Bennett on May 8, 2009 at 9:00pm — No Comments

What more do we have to do?

I'm sure the rest of you were like me and were dreading the April 15th deadline for our federal taxes. The only people that weren't in a bad mood that day were probably the bean counters looking for all that money coming in. And...as good citizens I'm sure a vast majority just went along with the system and made sure all of our paperwork was in line and filed properly. Once more...the cycle continues...what if we were to "rock the boat" so to speak?

Let's look at a possible way to… Continue

Added by Marc on May 6, 2009 at 9:16pm — 2 Comments