Archive for October 2006
Historical Support for the FairTax Approach?
October 30, 2006 · Category: Education
From reader Tracy Farr:
I am a College Student participating in a Tax Competition hosted by PriceWaterHouseCoopers. We have been thinking about using a tweaked form of Fair Tax to resolve the case that they ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 2 Comments »
Response from Karen Walby on Employee-based Evasion
October 13, 2006 · Category: Education
AFFT Director of Research Karen Walby sent us the following reply to The "I'm my Customer's Employee" Trick.
Briefly, this is the question of whether you could simply bill yourself as someone's employee, rather than as ...
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FairTax Supporter: Congressional Candidate Chuck Ahner of KS
October 13, 2006 · Category: Mailbag, Political Support
From Craig McPherson:
Overland Park, KS - The original sponsor of the Fairtax and co-author of The Fair Tax Book: Saying Goodbye to the Income Tax and the IRS, Congressman John Linder (R-GA), has endorsed Chuck ...
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Mises Institute Attacks FairTax ... Again
October 10, 2006 · Category: Criticisms, Education
Reader Jason Coyne points me to a new article by Lawrence Vance at the Ludwig von Mises Institute called "The Fraudulent Tax" which provides a withering critique of the FairTax.
The article devotes more than a ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 13 Comments »
The “I’m My Customers’ Employee” Trick
From reader Terry Mellon:
I'm a supporter (time and money) of the FairTax effort, but under the heading of "too good to be true," I'm starting to puzzle about weaknesses it might have. Given that ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 7 Comments »
Kotlikoff Study: 23% FairTax = Revenue Neutral
October 2, 2006 · Category: Education
Thanks to (FairTax critic) Hayden Kepner for pointing out that Boston University Economics Professor Laurence Kotlikoff's much-anticipated study of the necessary revenue-neutral rate for the FairTax has been published and released.
Actually, the study was conducted ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 35 Comments »
