Club for Growth Debate: Flat Tax vs FairTax
As part of its Fall Economic Policy Conference, the Club for Growth will be sponsoring a debate in Washington, D.C. between John Linder and Dick Armey on “Flat Tax vs. Fair Tax.”
From the announcement:
WHAT: Club for Growth’s Fall Economic Policy Conference
WHEN: Wednesday, September 21, 2005
WHERE: Jones Day Corporate Conference Center, located at 51 Louisiana Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.We have an outstanding program planned including the latest inside news and analysis on tax reform and the 2006 economic and political outlook.
Special confirmed guest speakers include columnist Robert Novak, The Wall Street Journal’s John Fund, pollster Kellyanne Conway and economist Brian Wesbury. Stars in Congress include Senators Jim DeMint and John Sununu and Reps. Jeff Flake, Jeb Hensarling, Paul Ryan, and Cathy McMorris. Our keynote lunch speaker is former Senator John Breaux, who is vice-chairman of the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform.
We’ll also have a debate between flat tax advocate and former House Majority Leader Dick Armey and FairTax sponsor and Congressman John Linder.
To: Fair Tax Blog
It is imperative that the U.S. abolish the income tax and go to the consumption tax, the Fair Tax. Hurricane Katrina is going to cost 65 or 70 billion dollars. The Fair Tax will give all of us working people our full pay checks. We can no longer afford giving 33 dollars out of every hundred we earn to the federal government. the 11 trillion dollars stored in offshore banks overseas can come home at last. The 100 or so largest corporations can build their next plant in the United States. We must get competitive with the rest of the world NOW. Lets bring home the 14 million jobs that have left our country according to Dr. Pat Choate, a noted economist. With the Fair Tax in place we can rebuild the ravaged states so horribly damaged by Katrina. My cousins beautiful home was on the beach at Pass Christian Mississippi. All that is left is the foundation. For far to long we have allowed the self serving powers to be in charge of our lives. Set us free.
Elvus Sasseen