Saving the World, One 1040 at a Time
As Joshua pointed out, he’s looking for “quality bloggers” to join this here FairTax Blog. Until he finds some, you’re stuck with me. Since I have nothing meaningful to say at this time (more on that later), I’ll use this as an introduction.
I’m the host of The Unrepentant Individual, a libertarian-oriented blog. I’m one of those poor, deluded saps that’s still young enough to think he can save the world from itself, so I’m doing all I can to fight for personal liberty, in all parts of life. Trained as an engineer, I have no actual qualifications to prepare me for writing or political activism, but I do my best to fake it. Outside of work and blogging, I spend time with my wife, my dogs, and rooting on my beloved Boilermakers.
In my political life, I have been an advocate of ’small-l’ libertarianism since the early days of my college career, and a blogger since November 2004. For obvious reasons, I believe our current behemoth of a tax code is inefficient, incomprehensible, and counter-productive. The FairTax is the best alternative I have found so far. This is not to say that the FairTax is without flaws, but that it is comparatively the best system out there.
Last, I will probably be silent for the next few days. I broke my brain posting on the FairTax in the latter part of last week and on Sunday, and need a few days of recuperation (i.e. beer) to recover. In the meantime, I’ll direct you to the two posts that prompted Joshua to ask me to join. First, my analysis of the FairTax (nothing new to many of you), including some of the positive and negative effects that will come with it. The second post is a response to the criticisms of Jesse Taylor of left-wing blog Pandagon. It is a very long post, but there’s a lot of red meat.
Many thanks go to Joshua for giving me the opportunity to join this illustrious crew. I think the country might just be ready for a change in structure, and we can use the release of The FairTax Book to jumpstart a serious look at the FairTax.
