Articles Archive
Could Missouri be the first FairTax State?
May 15, 2009 · Category: AFFT Updates, Articles
Missouri House gives final approval to FairTax amendment
The Missouri House gave final approval to a proposed constitutional amendment to abolish the state income tax and replace it with a FairTax system.
The proposal would raise the ...
Posted by Morphh · 67 Comments »
State Budget Shortfalls Present a Tax Reform Opportunity
The Tax Foundation released a new report (Special Report No. 164) on the State budget shortfalls and states that it could be an opportunity for tax reform. I noted what was described as an unstable ...
Posted by Morphh · 3 Comments »
Just What This Downturn Demands: A Consumption Tax
Just What This Downturn Demands: A Consumption Tax
Friday, December 26, 2008
By: Robert Frank
From the New York Times, November 9, 2008
The country is now in the midst of the deepest economic crisis since the ...
Posted by Morphh · 64 Comments »
How many “nonpayers” can the U.S. afford?
A newly released Tax Foundation study shows that while current law would give 33 percent of income tax filers zero liability next year, that figure would increase to 43 and 44 percent if John McCain’s ...
Posted by Morphh · 28 Comments »
November Election Provides Unique Opportunity for Tax Reform
June 14, 2008 · Category: Articles
Tax Foundation President Scott Hodge recently published an article in the Heartland Institute's Budget & Tax News on the opportunity for federal tax reform during the next administration—regardless of who wins. The article outlines five ...
Posted by Morphh · 1 Comment »
The FairTax Is About Economic Growth
In a recent post, it was commented that we should discuss the studies/articles predicting economic growth under the FairTax, remarking "that Kotlikoff and others had really concluded that the actual economic growth under the FairTax ...
Posted by Morphh · 72 Comments »
Nothing is Certain but Death and the FairTax
In a piece on Townhall today Mike Adams offers an amusing look at conversations from the trenches of a grassroots movement. The premise is that he carries around, in public, a copy of FairTax: ...
Posted by Mark Bostleman · 74 Comments »
Lawrence Kotlikoff: Why the FairTax Will Work
On his web site, Lawrence J. Kotlikoff has provided a new article titled "Why the FairTax Will Work - Bartlett's Unfair Attack on the FairTax," a response to Bartlett's criticism of the FairTax in the ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 55 Comments »
AFFT CEO Leo Linbeck on the FairTax in the WSJ
Thanks to Hayden for pointing out this one:
FairTax Facts
By LEO LINBECK
December 26, 2007; Page A10
Much has been written lately about the FairTax, the proposal to replace the current federal income tax with a national retail ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 23 Comments »
What About Me?
By Bill Rollyson
When discussing the FairTax with most Americans, this is the underlying question many of them have. In most cases, the answer is that the FairTax is better for them than the current system. ...
Posted by Bill Rook · 6 Comments »
The Real Cost of U.S. Taxes
January 24, 2006 · Category: Articles
Tax Foundation, Special Report, December 2005, No. 138, The Rising Cost of Complying with the Federal Income Tax
LINK: http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/1281.html
In 2005, US taxpayers will pay roughly $1.2 trillion in federal income taxes. However, America's tax ...
Posted by Bill Rook · No Comments »
Bush May Delay Tax Reform Push
Sent to us by reader JP Merrihew:
Tax reform push may be delayed
Sources say recommended initiatives may be too controversial to push in an election year.
December 4, 2005: 6:29 PM EST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 6 Comments »
Novak: GOP Retreating on Taxes
December 4, 2005 · Category: Articles, Political Support
I don't know where this originally appeared; it was forwarded to me by e-mail.
Novak: GOP retreating on taxes
Commentary by Robert Novak
The Republican majority in the House of Representatives got out of Washington for the ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · No Comments »
New York Times Reviews FairTax Book
The Gray Lady has published its review of The FairTax Book, and it's about as bad as you would expect. Here are the most relevant paragraphs:
In "The FairTax Book," the syndicated radio host Neal ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 2 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 · 2 Comments »
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 »
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 »
Tax Hikes (Labeled as Reforms) Go to Washington
October 14, 2005 · Category: Articles, Presidential Commission
An article by Lawrence Hunter and Phil Kerpen in the Hawaii Reporter begins:
The President’s Advisory Panel on Tax Reform got hijacked this week and is heading toward the White House loaded up with tax increases ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 1 Comment »
‘Where’s the Reform,’ Tax Groups Wonder
October 14, 2005 · Category: Articles, Presidential Commission
A new article on CNSNews.com catalogs some of the early disappointment in response to the President's tax commission. An excerpt:
The Free Enterprise Fund, a group that lobbies for lower taxes, blasted what it called ...
Posted by Joshua Zader · 1 Comment »
