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There’s a lot of talk in Washington about yet another so-called “stimulus” package. If the next one is anything like the last one it will simply be a mechanism for taking money away from people who aren’t spending it the way politicians would like, and transferring it to people who will. Our soon-to-be ruler feels like adding some grandiose public works projects (raking leaves in a National Forest) to the list. Let’s break away from these political stimulus ideas for a few minutes and study an absolutely brilliant idea from Texas Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert. Now Louie hasn’t been around...

FairTax volunteers led by Georgia State Director Gene Key put together a 2,500 person FairTax "Truth" Rally at the Gwinette Center Sunday outside Atlanta. Ken Hoagland of FairTax.org offered thanks to the excellent team in Georgia for their hard work and quick action. The rally came in response to distortions of the FairTax by the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee on behalf of challenger Jim Martin. Mr. Martin, trying to unseat Georgia Senator and a FairTax bill co-sponsor Saxby Chambliss, later distanced himself from the ads but then added, "They’re right". Mr. Martin was invited to attend but did not respond....

Huckabee appears for Chambliss, calling proposal ‘our best chance.’ Martin says he’s focusing on middle-class breaks. By Jim Tharpe The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Monday, November 17, 2008 Georgia supporters of the fair tax turned out en masse Sunday to cheer the idea of a national sales tax, which has become a thorny issue in the state’s high-profile Dec. 2 U.S. Senate runoff. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who won Georgia’s GOP presidential primary in February, joined about 2,000 people Sunday afternoon at the Gwinnett Civic Center in what became not just a fair-tax rally, but a major campaign stop for Republican...

Georgia supporters of the fair tax turned out en masse Sunday to cheer the idea of a national sales tax, which has become a thorny issue in the state’s high-profile Dec. 2 U.S. Senate runoff. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who won Georgia’s GOP presidential primary in February, joined about 2,000 people Sunday afternoon at the Gwinnett Civic Center in what became not just fair-tax rally, but a major campaign stop for Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Moultrie. Chambliss backs the fair tax, which would abolish the Internal Revenue Service and replace the federal income tax and most...

Obama made "change" the theme of his campaign. Now is your opportunity to make sure he keeps his word to invoke real change by replacing the federal income tax code with The Fair Tax . The website is an opportunity to prioritize an agenda based on votes of the people. I realize it maybe a bitter pill to swallow for some but you will have to register, if your so inclined. Click on the "endorse" button to register. You can post a comment. Currently the Fair Tax issue is #31 and climbing.

His positions. FAIRTAX America desperately needs tax reform. The current income tax code is so complex that even the IRS does not understand it. Our so-called progressive income tax punishes individual success. NATIONALSECURITY As a young man, I had a strong desire to serve in the military. The day that I became a U.S. Marine was one of the proudest days of my life. Later, I also served as a Navy medical officer. As a Marine, I took an oath to defend the United States. Keeping that oath is a sacred obligation.

Many of you in District 17 have been hearing a radio commercial being played by my opponent in this congressional race, and if you’re like me, when I first heard it, I was stunned. It represents the worst of what politics has become in this day and age. In a breathtaking distortion of the facts, Chet Edwards claims that I want to raise taxes on the American people by 30%. This spot even goes so far as to say I’ll tax food for children and medicine for the elderly. That’s crazy and nothing could be further from the truth. Since...

I need help on what each of these two canadates think about these issues, Abortion, Military in foreign countries, Social Security, Gun Control, and Taxes.

Meet the FairTax Hall of Shame This is an election year which, for some, means they'll say anything--truthful or otherwise--to retain their own seat, or bump an incumbent from theirs. And so, a number of FairTax supporters have come under attack from other candidates--or their political surrogates including the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee--with outright lies in print, radio, phone and television ads about the FairTax. Listed below are six who've already made our "Hall of Shame" by lying about the FairTax directly, or had their political guns such as Maria Weeg, Executive Director of the Arizona Democratic Party or Dan...

Who is proposing implementing the Fair Tax in the presidential debate? None other than Darth Vader! Funny, I was expecting him to propose something a bit more...evil! But then that's someone else's job! NOTE: The author of this comic requests that you visit his web site and please refrain from copying the cartoon within this thread. Thank you!

Several listeners alerted me to this bit that appeared on Kiplinger.com written by Knight Kiplinger, the editor of the Kiplinger Personal Finance magazine. In the article Kiplinger is proposing fixes for some of our current financial problems. This section dealt with tax reform: Reform the tax code. The best thing Washington could do to supercharge private savings would be to tax consumption rather than income. The Byzantine U.S. tax code (all 60,000 pages of it) should be scrapped. All present federal taxes -- on personal and corporate income, capital gains, estates, even payroll taxes (FICA) -- should be gradually replaced...

Marion County Public Library Previous EventMarion County (FL) FairTax Volunteers monthly meetings are held on the first Wednesday of every month from 6:30pm until 8:30pm at the Marion County Public Library, Meeting Room A. We have this room until December 3, 2008. Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008 Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Repeat on the first Wednesday of the month until 12/03/2008 This event does not require an RSVP. Registered users can request event reminders. Register

The FairTax ensures Social Security’s soundness by funding it with a progressive, broad-based national retail sales tax, rather than the current regressive, narrow payroll tax. The FairTax rebate zeros the retail taxation of necessities, up to poverty-level spending, for seniors. The FairTax repeals the taxation of Social Security benefits and adjusts Social Security indexing to protect seniors. The FairTax ends all record keeping and income tax filings of any kind for seniors, totally insulating them from the high costs and abusive tactics of tax preparers. The FairTax does not tax used goods, giving low-income seniors choices. The FairTax reduces manufacturers’,...

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The FairTax plan reduces the cost of American manufacturing considerably. Under the FairTax, American manufactured goods and services no longer enter the marketplace burdened with hidden corporate taxes, the cost of compliance with such taxes, and Social Security employee matching. This amounts to an average cost reduction from 12 percent to in some cases more than 25 percent. Said another way, American goods become 12 to 25 percent more competitive. The FairTax levels the playing field. Under the FairTax, imported goods and domestically produced goods incur the same U.S. tax. This stands in stark contrast to the present system, where...

Kissimmee, FL The Best Western Lakeside in Kissimmee, FLPromoting the FairTax requires more than just a passion for the issue. It requires a sophisticated understanding of your audience--be it your neighbors, the media, or elected officials--to make a truly powerful and public persuasion campaign. And for the FairTax to prevail--the most substantial overhaul to the U.S. tax system ever-- understanding the tactics and strategies used by every modern campaign is essential. So the question is: Are you ready to do this? The FairTax Camp 2008 program is designed to provide Advance Tactics Training to supporters of the FairTax issues who...

Trade Triangle of Theft America has an economic calamity boiling under the surface. We often think of economic calamities in terms of stock markets crashing, people losing their life savings in a day, and massive unemployment or fast gowning inflation, but evil can thrive with a Bull market. In times past, ordinary commodities have been caught up in a trade triangle which feed the beast called tyranny. In the Far East, opium, silk, and spices helped western countries establish trade with China. In our hemisphere sugar, slaves and rum, obscured the words of the May Flower Compact and put the...

As usual, the debate about taxes has heated up this election year. Barack Obama has promised to raise income taxes if he's elected. By how much and on whom is debatable. Rep. Allen Boyd has aligned himself with the Democratic Party in trying to reinstate the estate (death) tax and increase corporate taxes. Economists, such as Walter Williams, argue that an increase in corporate taxes will only be passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices and that ultimately, all taxes are paid by the citizenry. Most Republicans warn that increasing income and corporate taxes will decrease...

Houston—The non-partisan campaign to replace the income tax system with a national retail sales tax today criticized the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and incumbent candidate Nick Lampson for “gross distortions of the FairTax that make even harder the way out of the mess the income tax has created,” said FairTax spokesman Ken Hoagland. Hoagland criticized a new television campaign ad by Lampson (TX-22) that accuses opponent Pete Olsen of backing a plan that will increase the cost of food and other necessities of life. “Not true,” said Hoagland. “Left out of the ad, of course, is the fact that under...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) - Two-thirds of U.S. corporations paid no federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005, according to a new report from Congress.</p> <p>The study by the Government Accountability Office, expected to be released Tuesday, said about 68 percent of foreign companies doing business in the U.S. avoided corporate taxes over the same period.</p>

Casselberry, FL The Winter Springs Civic Center 400 N. Edgemon Ave Winter Springs, FL. 32708 We will meet this month at The Winter Springs Civic Center. There will be a presentation of the FairTax followed by a Q&A and a discussion of recent volunteer activities. For more information, please contact Larry Walters at 407-949-2959. Date: Thursday, August 14, 2008 Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM This event does not require an RSVP. Registered users can request event reminders. Register

Politicians and Wall Streeters are starting to ask why the Belgian beer company InBev purchased Anheuser-Busch and not the other way around. Anheuser-Busch is an iconic American firm and some find it almost unpatriotic that Anheuser CEO August Busch IV allowed the "King of Beers" to relocate across the Atlantic -- though shareholders were the big winners here with a $50 billion-plus takeaway. But here's the real question: Was the takeover basically financed by the savings Anheuser expected from escaping America's increasingly uncompetitive corporate tax system? According to the Tax Foundation, Belgium's corporate tax rate is 33%, but the effective...

Marion County (FL) FairTax Volunteers monthly meetings Marion County Public Library Marion County (FL) FairTax Volunteers monthly meetings are held on the first Wednesday of every month from 6:30pm until 8:30pm at the Marion County Public Library, Meeting Room A. We have this room until December 3, 2008. Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008 Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Repeat on the first Wednesday of the month until 12/03/2008 This event does not require an RSVP. Registered users can request event reminders. Register

Myrtle Beach, SC Date: Saturday, August 2nd Time: 10:30am-12:30pm Location: Chapin Memorial Library' 400 14th Ave N Myrtle Beach, SC 29577 Event Host: Mickey Lattimore fairtax@sc.rr.com Date: Saturday, August 2, 2008 Time: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM This event does not require an RSVP. Registered users can request event reminders. Register

Like all the great nations and societies of history the United States is rapidly coming to the end of its existence as a great and powerful country. The shackles of our nearly 70,000 page tax code are making us less and less able to compete in the global economy. Our tax on capital is cutting our businesses off at the knees. Our highest earners have half their income confiscated by the IRS. All of these taxes along with the cost of complying with nearly unfathomable tax regulations put us at a severe disadvantage as competitors in the global economy since...

Fascism, socialism and communism all offer varying degrees of control. Some believe that others require more government control. The new extreme in control appears to be environmentalism. From www.worldtribune.com: Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, who survived the communist system and now leads a country that emerged from the dissolution of the Soviet empire, is warning of a new form of communism threatening human freedom and progress. “Environmentalism is the new communism, a system of elite command-and-control that kills prosperity and should similarly be condemned to the ash heap of history. I understand that global warming is a religion...

...The nearby chart shows that the top 1% of taxpayers, those who earn above $388,806, paid 40% of all income taxes in 2006, the highest share in at least 40 years. The top 10% in income, those earning more than $108,904, paid 71%. Barack Obama says he's going to cut taxes for those at the bottom, but that's also going to be a challenge because Americans with an income below the median paid a record low 2.9% of all income taxes, while the top 50% paid 97.1%. Perhaps he thinks half the country should pay all the taxes to support...

Kennesaw, GAGeorgia's 6th & 11th Districts Monthly Meeting is every third Saturday at 9 a.m. The meeting takes place at the Golden Corral on Barrett Pkwy in Kennesaw. Date: Saturday, July 19, 2008Time: 9:00 AM Repeat on the third Saturday of the month until 07/20/2008 This event does not require an RSVP. Registered users can request event reminders. Register

This is the first in a series of three articles on how your pockets are being shamelessly picked by government and big business.I bet you knew the IRS was robbing you. You just didn't know how much. Read on. Are you a middle-class retiree living here on our little sandbar with money in an IRA? The IRA is supposed to give you a break by allowing you to put money away tax-free, allow it to grow, and then tax you when you withdraw it. Sounds good, doesn't it? You're getting robbed. You're not the one benefitting by it as much...

Dear FairTax supporters, Our cause continues to gather steam in hometown America—while, with smoke in the air, Congress fiddles. Could it be more obvious that we will have to save the nation from our own elected officials and candidates? Retirement investments, savings and college education accounts are evaporating as the stock market falls—while at the same time leading economists predict that trillions of dollars can and will flow into the United States economy after enactment of the FairTax. Candidate Obama signals a desire to raise the amount of money the government takes from the growth of savings and investments while...

Cool, the FairTax is a featured article on Wikipedia today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairTax Thanks to all who sent us a heads up.

Greenville, SCDate: Saturday, July 19th Time: 10:00am-12:00pm Location: Tommy's Ham House 214 Rutherford St Greenville, SC Event Hosts: Gene Bustard thebustards@charter.netCharles Swift nylinthead@yahoo.comDate: Saturday, July 19, 2008Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM This event does not require an RSVP. Registered users can request event reminders. Register

If anyone ever tries to tell you that the economy is driven by consumer spending, I have one piece of advice–RUN! This one fallacy alone has arguably caused more damage to our nation than any other, and a person who believes it is either deceived, or is using it to be deceptive, or both. I walked out of an investing seminar recently because the speaker used this fallacy–that consumer spending is the basis of the economy–as a foundational argument for his thesis. His thesis was that America is headed toward a serious economic downturn based on future reduction of consumer...

n 2005, the estimated time and money cost of complying with the federal Internal Revenue Code was 6 billion man-hours worth $265 billion. The code that year stood at 7 million words in 736 code sections, up from 718,000 words in 103 code sections in 1955. By contrast, the King James Bible has 788,280 words in 66 books, the Harry Potter series has just over 1 million words in 7 books, and the English translation of War and Peace has 560,000 words.

The vision behind July 4th, Independence Day, is with us today Born in the struggle to throw off unfair taxes that sapped the lifeblood from our colonies, American patriots soon pledged their lives and fortunes to each other to create a new form of government that rejected the rule of kings. A new idea sprang forth that government should only exist to protect and advance the rights that are derived, not from any ruler but which all men and women are endowed with by our Creator. A new government was formed that risked everything to advance this idea that government...

Casselberry, FL Eastmonte Civic Center 830 Magnolia Dr. Altamonte Springs, FL 32701 Monthly Meeting for Casselberry and surrounding areas is every second Tuesday at 7 p.m. till 9:00 p.m. We will meet this month at The Eastmonte Civic Center. There will be a presentation of the FairTax followed by a Q&A and a discussion of recent volunteer activities. For more information, please contact Larry Walters at 407-949-2959. Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2008 Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Repeat on the second Tuesday of the month until 07/20/2008 This event does not require an RSVP. Registered users can request event...

Loganville, GA Dear FairTax supporters: Do you want to learn more about how you can help promote the FairTax in your community? How you can answer the objections of your friends, family, co-workers? Would you like to network with other FairTax supporters to share ideas? Then plan to join us for our first FairTax Workshop for 2008. This event is FREE. Saturday, July 12th, 9am - 1pm. Covenant Christian Academy 3425 Loganville Hwy (GA 20) Loganville, GA 30052 Click here for driving directionsWe have invited Congressman Linder and Senator Chambliss to join us to give updates about the progress of...

Marion County Public Library Marion County (FL) FairTax Volunteers monthly meetings are held on the first Wednesday of every month from 6:30pm until 8:30pm at the Marion County Public Library, Meeting Room A. We have this room until December 3, 2008. Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2008Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Repeat on the first Wednesday of the month until 12/03/2008 This event does not require an RSVP. Registered users can request event reminders. Register

Why NTU Supports the FairTax: The Fair Tax Act would promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national sales tax to be administered primarily by the States. Legislative Status: The FairTax has been reintroduced for the 110th Congress. It is H.R. 25 in the House and S. 1025 in the Senate. NTU has endorsed the FairTax since 1998 and continues to work for its adoption Benefits of the FairTax: The FairTax plan brings fairness, transparency, and efficiency to our unfair, complex, and confusing Tax Code....

Tuscumbia, AL What: FairTax Booth-Helen Keller Festival Date: Saturday June 28 Times: Schedule available, call for times and carpool needs Location: Tuscumbia, Alabama Calling all volunteers! No experience necessary!! If you would like to help us hand-out literature and have a great time meeting others who consider the FairTax issue as the #1 issue that will turn this country around economically, then contact Chuck Bailey to sign up to help! Contact: Chuck Bailey FairTax Volunteer District Director Alabama Congressional District 5 irlaserman@sprynet.com 256-776-5636(Home) 256-479-4350(Cell) Date: Saturday, June 28, 2008Time: 9:00 AM This event does not require an RSVP. Registered users...

Casselberry, FL Eastmonte Civic Center 830 Magnolia Dr. Altamonte Springs, FL 32701 We will meet this month at The Eastmonte Civic Center. There will be a presentation of the FairTax followed by a Q&A and a discussion of recent volunteer activities. For more information, please contact Larry Walters at 407-949-2959. Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM This event does not require an RSVP. Registered users can request event reminders. Register

Despite all the attention given to federal income taxes, they represent only 42 percent of the total tax burden Americans carry each year. There is at least $657.5 billion in additional “hidden” taxes—$2,642 per person—that is not visible to the taxpayers. If more Americans realized that their total tax burden equaled 56 percent of annual personal consumption spending, there might be a second Revolution. Unlike sales taxes that appear on a cash register receipt, hidden taxes are those charges that are not expresslyclear to the taxpayer. One example is fuel. The average price of a gallon of gas last August...

Kennesaw GeorgiaGeorgia's 6th & 11th Districts Monthly Meeting is every third Saturday at 9 a.m. The meeting takes place at the Golden Corral on Barrett Pkwy in Kennesaw. Date: Saturday, June 21, 2008Time: 9:00 AM Repeat on the third Saturday of the month until 07/20/2008 This event does not require an RSVP. Registered users can request event reminders. Register

Location: Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Date: June 12, 2008 Time: 7:00pm Building: Old Depot Station Building Fair Tax Presenter: Thad Viers

Casselberry, FL Central Library215 N. Oxford Road Casselberry, FL 32707 Monthly Meeting for Casselberry and surrounding areas is every second Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Central Library. There will be a presentation of the FairTax followed by a Q&A and a discussion of recent volunteer activities. For more information, please contact Larry Walters at 407-949-2959. Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008Time: 7:00 PM - 8:45 PM Repeat on the second Tuesday of the month until 07/20/2008 This event does not require an RSVP. Registered users can request event reminders. Register

Candidates rally 'round 23 percent alternative levy It's what propelled two of the eight congressional candidates to run. Another two have agreed that if elected, they'll sign up to be co-sponsors of it. What is it about the Fair Tax proposal - which would completely undo the way Americans pay federal taxes - that warrants the support of half of the 5th District congressional candidates? "It untaxes the poor, and it's just so bloody simple," said Chuck Bailey, a retired Boeing engineer who heads North Alabama's Fair Tax organization. "Just imagine never filing another tax return, bringing home your entire...

Greensboro, NCFairTax Meeting - Greensboro, NC Benjamin Branch Library 1530 Benjamin Parkway Greensboro, NC 27408 (336) 373-7540 Our FairTax meetings are scheduled for the first Tuesday evening of each month at the Benjamin Library on Benjamin Parkway across from Nathaniel Greene School. I hope everyone will make plans to attend. We have a small, but committed core group, so let's brainstorm and get some ideas flowing. Come alone or bring a friend and let's get some action going. Thanks and looking forward to seeing you. Bill bbtidwell@yahoo.com336-656-3992 Date: Thursday, June 5, 2008Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Repeat on the...

Tax compliance factsThe tax gap affects all taxpayers.In her testimony before Congress, Nina Olson, the National Taxpayer Advocate, said the following regarding the impact of noncompliance on taxpayers, in general: “If we divide the 2001 net tax gap estimate of $255 billion by 130 million individual taxpayers, we can see that each of those taxpayers in 2001 paid, on average, an extra $2,000 to subsidize the unwillingness or inability of some taxpayers to pay their fair share.”1 In 2001 the average taxpayer paid $8,265 in taxes. With an estimated tax gap – which is the difference between what taxpayers should...

Below is the FairTax resolution I submitted to the Platform & Resolutions Committee of the Illinois GOP Party Convention. Marilyn Rickert, Illinois FairTax, President The FairTax reflects the values, ideals and principals of the people of Illinois and the nation. I respectfully submit this resolution to be adopted as part of the Illinois Republican Party platform. FairTax Resolution background: The resolution was adopted by the ...

Meeting scheduled... Date: Thursday May 22, 2008 Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Location: "Via" ( Senior Citizens Center ) Street: 1717 Dauphin Street City/State/Zip: Mobile, Alabama 36604-1307 Phone: (251) 478-3311FairTax is HOT, and we continue rallying support as seen recently by the whirlwind of talk in the media during this presidential season. The great news is, it's not over! People are continuing to learn about and move into the FairTax arena of ideas!! Next Thursday, May 22 at 6:00pm is your opportunity to get involved or simply to learn more about this important issue. We will be meeting at...