Posted on 08/18/2005 6:34:27 AM PDT by GPBurdell
NUMBER ONE ---- AGAIN!
The word came in yesterday afternoon. The FairTax Book will remain No. 1 on the New York Times Bestseller's List for the second week in a row. Our editor at Regan Books told us yesterday afternoon that it is much harder to make this list the second week than it is the first. Needless to say, we're excited and gratified. Interview requests for Congressman Linder and myself are pouring in, and the crowds at the book signings remain strong.
Our greatest hope is that the book generates a buzz and momentum of its own. Across the country people who have never heard of The FairTax before are learning that it is possible to get rid of all income and payroll taxes and replace those taxes with a one-time tax on consumption at the retail level. These people are learning that:
* They can say goodbye to the death tax, the gift tax, Social Security taxes, Medicare taxes, the Alternative Minimum Tax, capital gains taxes and the trouble of filling out tax forms; * That they can just go enjoy themselves on April 15th, just as they do on every other spring day; * That American corporations who have fled overseas to escape our crushing tax system can be brought home again; * That they can invest and save with no federal tax consequences whatsoever; * That the trillions of dollars that are working in offshore financial centers, again to escape our crushing taxes, can be brought back to work in the American economy again; * That we don't need to spend $500 billion a year to comply with an obscene tax code; * And that all of this can be accomplished while eliminating the federal tax burden on the poor, and without increasing the cost of living for everyone else.
I was discussing the book with some friends last night. I told them that over the past ten or so days I think that I have signed about 8,000 copies of the book at various book signings. Since many people buy multiple copies of the book, I would guess that I've seen about 6,500 people during that time. So .. how many people had something negative to say? Two. That's it. Just two. One man at Ft. Bragg came through the line twice to have two books signed (he went and bought an extra copy) all the while grumbling that we didn't include enough of the research in the book. Well, there's a reason for that. You can find the research at the FairTax website. Knock yourself out, pal. One other man stood in front of the table and demanded an opportunity to point out all of the typos he had found. We politely declined his incredible offer. But that's it. Two complaints. On the other hand, we've received hundreds of comments from people who doubted whether or not this idea could work ... until they read the book. Well, that's what we were after.
Again ... thanks so much for another week at No. 1! The FairTax is becoming an idea that can't be ignored.
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Go! Neal! Go!...........
bump.
How long before the choir runs out of money to give to Boortz?
You dont think Boortz used the spell checker? :-)
Yesteray on his radio program, Neal said said that next week is is recording the book onto audio.
According to WSJ, the "fair tax" amounts to a stealthy double tax on boomers retirement. It will force boomers to pay taxes again on already taxed Roth IRA savings. I prefer Steve Forbes 17% flat tax proposal. It hits the blue staters the hardest.
So what. And those with 401(k)s and other pre-tax retirement plans will not have income taxes taken from them. And regarding the flat tax, remember, our current income tax code started as a flat tax on only very few people and it has grown into the monster it is today.
Thanks!
In other words, what's good for you is what's good for the country. Get a life.
PING!!!
Thank you for posting. Go Neal!
Well, actually Rongie, with the passage of the FairTax they'll actually have more money so there's no danger of "running out".
Sorry to disappoint you. Maybe you'd benefit by buying and reading a copy.
Hope not ... I LOVE typos. Show's he's too busy writing and thinking to worry about such nonsense.
Well I suppose pigface, but won't they have to pay more for the book? Somehow you guys seem to think you pass a tax and free money is just generated out of thin air. If you get to 'have more money', guess what, you are going to have to spend more money for the same things. After 7 years of this, I would think that point could have gotten through your thick head, but obviously it hasn't.
They'll all pay a goodly chunck of those savings in the form of hidden taxes - the tax costs embedded into the prices of everything they buy; they're hardly "home free" from taxation.
Nope, Rongie - that's why I call you that as a pet name ... there'll be a lot more economic benefit for most people (possibly even you). And it's anything but generated out of thin air as you claim. It's a logical benefit of removing the tax-bondage that companies and individual taxpayers are now in.
That all goes to help reduce prices, not raise them. You Squirrels should stay in your nests ...
I just finished reading it last night. I was skeptical until I read it, but I'm convinced now. Also, I don't remember a single typo in the book, and I'm a nit-picker when it comes to typos.
Oh yeah, I know pigface. The economy is going to grow 10.4% even though we currently are basically full employment, interest rates will go down despite the overheated economy, saving rates will go up despite everyone spending money to fuel such growth, and little fairies will come from the sky. Out of those predictions, I put the most faith in the last one.
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