Reviews of The FairTax Book at Amazon.com
The FairTax Book by Neal Boortz and John Linder has been selling pretty well. It’s inspired a good bit of discussion about how things might be changed as far as our tax structures go. It’s attracted attention in high places, too. (Yes, apparently Bush can read, okay? Take a look at the book on his desk on Air Force One. High places, get it? Nudge, nudge.)
It’s currently #7 on the Amazon.Com non-fiction list. However, strangely enough, the reviews for it frequently ignore the actual contents of the book. Amazon.com: Reviews for Books: The FairTax Book. Go figure.
There are a LOT of folks invested in our current tax scheme. (H&R Block, Quicken, Tax Cut and TurboTax, tax lawyers and accountants immediately come to mind, as well as the IRS) and it looks like a lot of them are tossing up their objections in the reviews. Oddly enough, a considerable number of the negative reviews seem rather like the same person wrote them. This might just be a coincidence, however. Out of curiosity, out of the latest 35 reviews, I figured I’d note down the positives and negatives.
The vast majority of negatives (23 out of 24) were from first time reviewers. (They didn’t have any other book, video, DVD, or toy reviews under their names.) The reviews normally didn’t have much to say about the book itself – but instead they were posting about how bad the idea was and tossing up unconnected factoids. (Or facturds, as I call them.) And predicting dire catastrophies if we even THINK about changing the tax system. Only 1 of the 24 had more than one review to his name – and the one had a LOT.
Now, out of the 11 positive posts there were 5 who had more than one review to their names, and they addressed the issues the book covered.
What does it all mean?
Well, there’s folks who don’t want the tax system changed. They’ve got it good the way things are now – and they’ll lie like a cheap rug in order to keep things as they are now. The question is – will their screaming and shouting drown out the thoughtful conversation and derail the possibility of change? Or will they be ignored, and end up having to find real jobs when the FairTax is implemented?
Time will tell. But you can help by keeping your representatives ‘nudged’.
J.
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