January 2011 Blog Posts (9)

Testimony of

Karen Walby, Ph.D.

Chief Economist

Americans For Fair Taxation

Before the

House Committee on Ways and Means

Hearing on Fundamental Tax Reform

January 20,…

ThisFebruary 9^th, 2011 there will be a group of FairTax Supporters thatwill be visiting the Congressional and Senatorial offices.  In order to show the leaders of both Housesthat these individuals represent people from all over America, we want topresent a LARGE stack of Post Cards to them. Therefore between now and February 1^st , we are asking…

I sent this off to my Senators, feel free to use it to encourage yours to help our cause:

Senator Merkley,

I respectfully request that you join your fellow Senators in co-sponsoring the FairTax bill, a revolutionary proposal for tax reform that will boost our economy by increasing jobs, improving the competitiveness of our businesses in the global marketplace, and decreasing the cost and complexity of our overburdened and outdated tax code.

The FairTax…

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north935.html

Enjoy!

Steve Bang

Had to leave a VM - will let you know if I hear back.  You can call to at:

I haven't seen any comments about this but it seems to me that with the FairTax this would make our manufacturers here in the U.S. more competitive on the world market due to the reduced prices of manufactured goods as they come out of the factories here.  This would then provide increased growth in business and more job opportunities thus a definite improvement in our nations economy.

We also need to get E-verify implemented nation-wide thus insuring that all these new jobs go to our…

Congressional sessions have become like NBA games: they pose, sleepwalk, and talk smack for most of it, then play like they mean it for the last five minutes.



So in a flurry of activity that included every manner of legislative maneuver except for actually reading any of the bills that they passed, our 111th Congress wrapped up its lame duck session by passing a new arms treaty, an extension – sort of - of the Bush tax cuts, unemployment benefit extension, emergency funding to keep…

WOODALL INTRODUCES FAIRTAX BILL ON DAY ONE WITH

RECORD NUMBER OF ORIGINAL CO-SPONSORS

Washington, DC—On Wednesday, January 5, 2011, Congressman Rob Woodall (GA-07) introduced H.R. 25, the FairTax.  The FairTax legislation eliminates the current income tax paradigm and replaces it with a system of taxation based on consumption.  The…