Archive for October 2005
Four New Sponsors in the House
October 27, 2005 · Category: Political Support
According to thomas.loc.gov and FairTaxScorecard.com, four more representatives have signed on as Cosponsors of H.R.25 in October. They are:
Carter, John TX-31 (R) (10/18/05)
Duncan, John TN-2(R) (10/18/05)
Davis, Jo Ann VA-1 (R) (10/28/05)
Poe, Ted TX-2 (R) ...
Posted by Bill Rook · 1 Comment »
Review of FairTax Book in NY Post
October 26, 2005 · Category: Reviews
From "Tax Reform Do's and Don'ts," published in the NY Post two days ago by William Ahern and Andrew Chamberlain:
TO rally Americans for a radical new tax system, radio host Neil Boortz and Rep. John ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 6 Comments »
FairTax Booksignings in Roanoke and Lynchburg
October 26, 2005 · Category: Book Tour
From the Roanoke Times:
With a touch of "simple laryngitis," Neal Boortz spoke briefly to a standing-room only crowd in the Grand Ballroom of Roanoke's Wyndham Hotel on Tuesday, offering a dramatically revised tax plan and ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · No Comments »
How Sticky are Prices?
October 25, 2005 · Category: Criticisms, Education
As FairTaxers, we all hear the refrain from our anti-capitalist opponents. Typically this is from those folks who are more of the knee-jerk opponents, not the people making reasonable arguments. But even unreasonable ...
Posted by Brad Warbiany · 7 Comments »
FairTax Scorecard
Send The FairTax Books to Congress: Did you send a copy of The FairTax Book to Congress? The rumors are that many of you have. We need to list the full extent of this grassroots ...
Posted by Bill Rook · No Comments »
Review of FairTax Book in Crain’s Detroit Business
October 24, 2005 · Category: Reviews
Here's a favorable review of The FairTax Book just published in the Crain's Detroit Business paper:
Some fairly good reading on taxes
By Christopher Crain
October 24, 2005
One of the reasons Delphi collapsed is its heavy legacy costs, ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · No Comments »
Noam Chomsky: Income Tax Fan
From TechCentralStation.com:
Editor's note: In light of news that a British poll identified Noam Chomsky as the world's leading intellectual, we thought it would be a valuable exercise to run this excerpt from Peter Schweizer's new ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 1 Comment »
Another Think Tank Slams the Presidential Panel
October 21, 2005 · Category: Presidential Commission, Press Releases
From the newswire:
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- According to the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI), a free-market think tank and publisher of "The Roadmap to Tax Reform," a massive project utilizing tax experts from ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 1 Comment »
Rush Limbaugh Reviews The FairTax Book
October 21, 2005 · Category: Political Support, Reviews
Marilyn Rickert forwards this excerpt from the print version of the Limbaugh Letter:
I have long championed radical tax reform, as you know. I’ve leaned toward the flat tax, rather than a Boortz-Linder-style consumption tax. ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 8 Comments »
The FairTax Anthem
October 20, 2005 · Category: Humor
Found over at The Wrightwing:
To the tune of Imagine by John Lennon (with apologies)
Imagine there’s no taxman,
It’s easy if you try,
No fearsome IRS,
to make you cringe and cry
Imagine all the tax payers
saving all their pay…
Imagine ...
Posted by Brad Warbiany · 1 Comment »
New York Times to Review The FairTax Book
From today's Nuze:
The more I read about the president's so-called tax reform panel the worse it gets. Essentially, the panel has done exactly what critics said the panel would do ... propose tax increases for ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 1 Comment »
7 New Congressional Co-Sponsors in Past 45 Days
An update from Senator Linder:
Today I am writing with just a brief update about where the FairTax stands. These last two months have been as exciting as any that we have had with the ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 4 Comments »
Tax Reform Group Blasts Presidential Tax Panel
October 18, 2005 · Category: AFFT Updates, Presidential Commission
A new press release from AFFT:
HOUSTON, Oct. 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Americans for Fair Taxation today blasted the Presidential Panel tasked with proposing fundamental changes to the tax system as engaging in, "Fraudulent political theater ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 2 Comments »
Press Conference by Leading Tax Reform Orgs
October 18, 2005 · Category: AFFT Updates, News
From the wire:
News Advisory
What: Press conference by leading national tax reform organizations
Date: Tuesday, Oct. 18
Time: 2:30 p.m. or 30 minutes after the conclusion of the Advisory Panel's meeting
Where: JW Marriott, Salon D, 1331 Pennsylvania Ave., ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 2 Comments »
Watching the President’s Tax Panel on C-Span
October 17, 2005 · Category: Presidential Commission
I'm elevating the following remarks by Merrill Bender from the comments section of another post, because they provide valuable (and disconcerting) insight into why the President's tax panel eliminated the FairTax from its list of ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 6 Comments »
Interesting Personalized License Plate
October 17, 2005 · Category: Humor, Public Support
Here in the Atlanta area, we understandably have a lot of FairTax fans. Yesterday in the Publix parking lot, I saw a guy walking in to the store with a FairTax shirt (actually, NRSTA, ...
Posted by Brad Warbiany · 1 Comment »
Boortz: Dissolve Presidential Tax Panel
October 15, 2005 · Category: Articles, Presidential Commission
In a new article "Dissolve the President's tax reform panel," Boortz joins others in calling for the dissolution of the President's panel:
When President Bush formed his President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform he charged ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 19 Comments »
128 Representatives, 21 Senators Support FairTax
October 15, 2005 · Category: Articles, Political Support
From a new article by Jim Clark in yesterday's Tahoe Bonanza, in Nevada:
As I reported last month I attended the week-long Western Republican Leadership Conference held aboard an ocean liner plying its way through Alaska's ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 9 Comments »
Hearty Reception for FairTax Crew in Knoxville
October 15, 2005 · Category: Book Tour, Public Support
Neal Boortz reports in yesterday's Nuze:
When I arrived at the Barnes & Noble in Knoxville last night for signings of The FairTax Book the people were lined up out the front door and down entire ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · No Comments »
Nonreform Reform
October 14, 2005 · Category: Articles, Presidential Commission
From Investors.com:
Hopes were high that the president's tax reform panel would start the process of vastly improving the nation's tax code. But the commission is about to propose unrealistic half-measures.
'No pain, no gain" is often ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · No Comments »
