Guest Post: Is the Fair Tax really going to be fair for boosting America’s future?

Below is a guest post from someone who is more of an Income Tax thinker, than a FairTax thinker. I picked this post up because I wanted to help educate the individual on the FairTax; and because he seems genuinely willing to learn. I will leave my comments below and I hope others do to. [...]

The FairTax strategy is revenue neutrality: Neither raise nor lower taxes so consumer costs remain stable.

FairTax FACT: The FairTax strategy is revenue neutrality: Neither raise nor lower taxes so consumer costs remain stable. FairTaxFraud: The fair tax does not cut the overall revenue but it shifts taxes so the working poor and middle class pay the majority share. It makes money that wasn’t worked for or earned tax-free while it [...]

The income tax exports our jobs, rather than our products. The FairTax brings jobs home.

FairTax FACT: The income tax exports our jobs, rather than our products. The FairTax brings jobs home. FairTaxFraud: By giving the rich $700 billion in free money from estate and gift taxes they will do exactly what they did when Bush and Reagan gave the rich huge tax cuts. Did they invest the money in [...]

AFFT DATA SHOWS FAIRTAX GENERATES MORE REVENUE

Original Release (PDF): http://www.fairtax.org/PDF/AFFT.09.10.JL.Release.pdf Content of PDF: Americans Frustrated Watching Tax Policymakers Play “Ground Hog Day” Washington, DC – Americans for Fair Taxation (AFFT) released today revenue estimates that the FairTax, a national sales tax, would have collected far more federal revenue in 2009 and 2010 than the current income tax based system. The estimates [...]

What [FairTaxers] Told Congress in 2011

Direct from the POPVOX Blog, FairTaxers made the Top 50 Congressional Bills “that moved people to contact Congress in 2011″ three times! HR-25 was the 2nd most popular bill in Congress; the Senate version of The FairTax Act, S-13 came in a very close 9th Place; and HJ Res 16, which is the companion legislation [...]

FairTax: Shortlinks

We all know how difficult it is trying to remember those lengthy links in the heat of a discussion about the FairTax. Well, FairTax.org has been working to make it a little easier for you. Below is a comprehensive list of “shortlinks” that you can easily memorize (or print from here) and have available to [...]

RE: The Fair Tax – A National Sales Tax That Increases Tax Burdens for Middle-Class Families

Whitehouse Official Response to FairTax.org Petition This blog is in response to the above posted Official Whitehouse statement which is in response to the recent FairTax Petition filed with WH.org by FairTax.org. If you haven’t read it yet, please take a minute to do so. First,

The Death of Our Current Tax System

Wednesday night FairTax Time on the internet, with not 1, but 2 very special guests: Dick Patten is the president of the American Family Business Institute, a nation-wide organization of family business owners devoted to the permanent repeal of the Federal Estate Tax (also known as the “Death Tax”). Under his leadership the AFBI has [...]

The Top Ten Most Important Pages on the Internet Right Now

If you’re a FairTaxer, you need to be a member of #10 & #9, you need to have the knowledge of numbers 8 through 2, and you need to sign and pass-on #1 by October 30, 2011. 10. FairTax.org – The Official FaceBook Page for Americans for Fair Taxation (AFFT) 9. FairTax 2012 – A [...]

LinkedIn: Putting America Back to Work 2011

Calling all FairTaxers. Get your JOBS QUESTIONS written down now (or post them here for us to submit on your behalf). This needs to be a concerted effort to get some direct answers as to why the FairTax is still not being seriously looked at to fix the problems we are having in America; starting [...]

FairTax Alert!

With all the talk of fundamental tax reform permeating nearly every budget conversation these days in Washington, the FairTax is becoming more and more prevalent. Even more exciting to me is that in the midst of these discussions, the FairTax has gained its third co-sponsor in two weeks. Representative Jerry Lewis (R-CA) and Representative Duncan [...]

FairTax: JOBS, JOBS, JOBS

As our unemployment rate hangs above 9% nationwide the loud cry for more jobs becomes more and more urgent, even angry—and legitimately so. The angry impatience of the unemployed and underemployed demands a practical response from government and industry; human compassion drives the rest of us to work for drastic improvement in the employment picture. [...]

FairTax: Repatriating Offshore $USD

November 2010 – FairTax Friday: Yesterday afternoon, the shares of Cisco Systems, Inc lost 16.2% of their value. Ironically, last month the CEO of Cisco and the President of Oracle Corporation penned a joint letter in the Wall Street Journal with a solution to our economic fatigue. Their common sense plea was to lower the [...]

How is the FairTax Rate Determined?

This is per ‘SEC. 101. IMPOSITION OF SALES TAX. (b) Rate – : ‘(1) FOR 2013- In the calendar year 2013, the rate of tax is 23 percent of the gross payments for the taxable property or service. ‘(2) FOR YEARS AFTER 2013- For years after the calendar year 2013, the rate of tax is [...]

FairTax: Open Letter to Bill O’Reilly

The quote below is a well written letter to Bill O’Reilly from a good friend of mine and staunch advocate of the FairTax; Mr. Frank Brassell. We encourage you to copy and paste this letter into an email and send it to Mr. Bill as soon as possible. He may be able to ignore a [...]

The FairTax and the Debt Ceiling

The last few weeks have seen an unprecedented furor over fears that the United States would default on its obligations due to a failure to raise our $14.3 trillion limit.  As inconceivably high as that number is, the United States government considers it necessary to spend even more. And while both sides fight over who [...]

The FairTax – A More Stable Source of Revenue

How would you like a raise? How would you like a monthly check from the government depending on the size of your family? You are probably saying to yourself, “this sounds too good to be true”. The fact is these things would happen overnight with the passage of the FairTax. On July 26th the House [...]

FairTax Prebate: Fair or Foul

The prebate is an integral part of the FairTax, and essential to one of the fundamental principles upon which the FairTax is built, namely an individual’s right to the fruits of their labors comes before any claims the federal government might have upon that person.  In other words, under the FairTax, citizens are allowed, and [...]

A message to all FairTaxers

A message to all FairTaxers from FairTax Nation We FairTax advocates have come to expect roadblocks from our Washington politicians. The FairTax Hearing by the House Ways and Means Committee appears to be no exception. To begin with, the length of our hearing has been halved to allow another panel to testify on value added [...]

A national sales tax is coming. It is time to choose. Which one will you prefer?

 by Danny N Diana Higgins on Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 9:42pm It is inevitable. You may want to share this bit of information with your friends and family because unless they have been following every second of whats been happening inside the beltway for the last few years they probably do not know this [...]