[Dick Bachert]

Folks, we CAN beat the entrenched mess in Malfunction Junction.

But it will take MASSIVE CITIZEN PRESSURE to fill this swamp.

The FairTax ain’t perfect – no tax IS – but it COULD serve as a vital waypoint back to a tax system the Founders MIGHT recognize were they to visit today.

Join the fight!

Every concerned citizen should go to as many Congressional Town Hall Meetings as possible if only because they are great theater. If you can go and PUBLICLY ask your congresscritter something like the following, so much the better:

"Except for several lapses in our national character and a brief period surrounding the War Between the States, for America's first 126 years – statistically, perhaps the most prosperous and free period in our history -- we funded the legitimate and Constitutional functions of government with INDIRECT taxes on consumption. For our first 126 years we held to the tax system the Founders intended here.

“Explain to these good folks why you (do/do not -- as the case warrants) support the Fair Tax (HR 25/S25) which seeks to REPLACE the UNFAIR and INCOMPREHENSIBLE income tax with a FLAT, FAIR national retail sales tax which would eliminate the IRS, one of the most dangerous agencies in government and, not incidentally, require that 12 million illegals pay for some of the welfare and other services they’re currently sucking from the rest of us?"

Remain at the mike and DON'T LET HIM GET AWAY WITH THE OLD POLITICAL TRICK OF ANSWERING SOME OTHER QUESTION.

A few thousand of us doing this on a regular basis will send 'em the message.

[KarlInOhio]

The FairTax is S 1025 this session. I guess the Dems didn't like it getting a small easily knowable number.

[Man50D]

The FairTax ain’t perfect – no tax IS – but it COULD serve as a vital waypoint back to a tax system the Founders MIGHT recognize were they to visit today.

Right on the money DB! One founding father was Alexander Hamilton, first Secretary of The Treasury. he stated the following about consumption taxes:

It is a signal advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit, which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end proposed-that is, an extension of the revenue. When applied to this object, the saying is as just as it is witty that, "in political arithmetic, two and two do not always make four." If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds. This forms a complete barrier against any material oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself a natural limitation of the power of imposing them.

[Bigun]

The FairTax ain’t perfect – no tax IS – but it COULD serve as a vital waypoint back to a tax system the Founders MIGHT recognize were they to visit today.

AMEN Dick Bachert! AMEN!

One thing is for sure! The founders would certianly shake their head in bewilderment at the current mess we call a tax system in this country!

We will never again be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS!