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

FairTax Postcards

This is an idea that came from our Florida friends over the Webinar.

Visitors to a FairTax booth or table at a street fair can be given a set of blank postcards that are easy to make up and that they can complete, stamp and mail. Here is the template for Florida. If one of you would adapt the template and list for New Jersey, that would be a great service.

The post cards are pre-addressed to the two state senators and to Congressman Rangel, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. A state list is provided to tell the fair-goer who his or her Congressman is. The volunteers at the booth need to keep a list from Wikipedia of the New Jersey Congressional Districts.

The drawbacks would be:
1. The post-card is a form.
2. Snail mail takes 6-8 weeks to reach the Senator's or Congressman's office. Not a problem if there is no deadline.
3. We would want to try to keep track of who sent in postcards and decide whether to add them to teh national list, which would require an extra step.

The advantages are:
1. It is a response that tells the Congressman or Senator that we FairTax-ers are active - certainly better than nothing.
2. It makes it easy for a fair-goer to take concrete action and motivates the person by giving him or her a sense of participation.

Let me know if you try it out and what you think.

Regards,
~Jim

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~Jim Bennett
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Permalink Reply by chiefcook on September 27, 2009 at 12:53pm

I am a member of the Central Florida Group that developed the Post Card Program

We have people complete the four post cards (full return address on all four sections on one side and then sign the other side and provide their e-mail address) They return the card to us! We can then capture their information to register them with AFFT and FTN. We identify their local Rep as 85-90% of people do not know who it is or even their district #! We handle the distrubution of the post cards. If they want to donate to defray the costs we have a jar for donations.

After we identify the Rep with Congress.org, we cut the cards apart and put address label on for the Rep. Then we hand deliver the cards to one of our local Reps who is a Co-Sponsor of HR-25. His office then forwards them to the DC office where a staff member hand delivers them to Charlie, the two Senators and any other Reps that have cards. This way, we bypass paying the postage! We try to have a large event/booth activity at least once a month. This way the Senators and Congressmen get FairTax post cards at least once a month! (Signing a petition form does not provide anything to the politicians!)

Before we cut the cards apart, we gather the information from the cards into an EXCEL spreadsheet (names, addresses and e-mail) to forward to AFFT and for inputting into FTN databases. AFFT has a spreadsheet format from CONVIO to import the names very easily.

The Post Card file you have is an older one. I am attaching a newer version which has disclosure information that AFFT requires.