Posted on 01/20/2006 2:07:19 PM PST by pigdog
Growing Endorsements of the Bipartisan FairTax Plan Scare Defenders of the Income Tax.
AFFT is an ever-expanding grassroots citizen’s organization of nearly 600,000 – the largest taxpayer group ever assembled in the history of our Nation. We resent the staff’s implication that our organization is either Democrat or Republican. Our ranks have been formed by taxpayers of every walk of life. We are Republicans, but we are also Democrats and Independents. We are the young and the old. The retired and the college student. The poor and the rich. Immigrant and 5th generation. We are fiercely nonpartisan. And we resent as well the belittling of the issue of tax reform – one of the most important issues to face the American people – as a political football. We have never asked one’s political affiliation for membership. And while we are of course pleased that we have the support of Majority Leader Tom DeLay and the attention of President Bush and Speaker Hastert, we would be equally pleased if we had the enthusiastic support of the Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi or Democratic Ranking Minority Member of the Ways and Means Committee, Charlie Rangel, to assist us in lifting the yoke of our income tax from the beleaguered back of the American taxpayer.
(Excerpt) Read more at fairtaxvolunteer.org ...
FairTax and general information PING!!
bump for later
Might the first organization I like that uses the word "grassroots" in its mission statement . . .
Thanks for the FairTax Ping pigdog!
Good info; thanks for the ping!
I'll throw in a ping for the Fair Tax! And for the return of the small-government, personal freedom and responsibility, Bill of Rights Republican Party!
FAIR TAX BUMP!!!
I figgered you'd have to read all the way to get to it:-)
Nor are they aware of the Scientology connection.
source...the movement for consumption-based taxation has been hijacked by a group of extremists whose principal interest is abolishing the Internal Revenue Service.21 They believe that if virtually all federal taxes are abolished and replaced with a retail sales tax like those in the states, then the states can simply collect the federal government's revenue for it, thereby allowing for abolition of the IRS...
21 The Church of Scientology originated this legislation as part of a campaign against the IRS because it refused for many years to allow gifts to the church to be deducted as legitimate charitable contributions, on the grounds that it was not a true church. The IRS eventually relented. See Davis (1997) and Starobin (1995) for discussions of the Church of Scientology's role in the sales tax campaign.
Davis, Bob. 1997. "CATS Out of the Bag." World, 12:9 (May 31/June 7).
Starobin, Paul. 1995. "No Returns." National Journal (March 18): 666-671.
Writing science fiction for about a penny a word is no way to make a living. If you really want to make a million, the quickest way is to start your own religion.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
If anyone would like to be added to this ping list let me know.
John Linder in the House(HR25) & Saxby Chambliss Senate(S25) offer a comprehensive bill to kill all income and SS/Medicare payroll taxes outright and replace them with with a national retail sales tax administered by the states.
H.R.25,S.25
A bill to promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national retail sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.Refer for additional information:
Willie, If L. Ron likes the fair tax then he must be a stand-up guy. LOL.
GET A NEW HORSE - THAT ONE IS DEAD!!!
And Stalin favored an end to Adolph Hitler.
Which of course says nothing about the merits of putting an end to Adolph Hitler...
The "Fair" Tax is a national sales tax.
Why not leave rhetorical trickery to the left?
Your so-called "connection" is nonexistent Willie Gee - as has been pointed out to you hundreds of times now. The tax plan you refer to was before the FairTax existed and has no connection with it then or now nor is the group mentioned in the article part of the FairTax organization.
You types just keep pushing the misinformation since it seems to be all you have in your arsenal.
It's not rhetorical (or any other type of) trickery. The name FairTax came about from polling by the AFFT organization as to what supporters thought the tax plan should be called.
The response came back (overwhelmingly) "FairTax" - the supporters chose it, not the organization.
The name FairTax came about from polling by the AFFT organization as to what supporters thought the tax plan should be called.LOL! You mean AFFT AKA "Americans For Fair Taxation" polled on what to call the their plan for what they call fair taxation?...And "the response came back (overwhelmingly) "FairTax""...WOW! And who says you're all mindnumbed?The response came back (overwhelmingly) "FairTax" - the supporters chose it, not the organization.
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