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The FairTax Book Hardcover – August 2, 2005
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Wouldn't you love to abolish the IRS ...
Keep all the money in your paycheck ...
Pay taxes on what you spend, not what you earn ...
And eliminate all the fraud, hassle, and waste of our current system?
Then the FairTax is for you. In the face of the outlandish American tax burden, talk-radio firebrand Neal Boortz and Congressman John Linder are leading the charge to phase out our current, unfair system and enact the FairTax Plan, replacing the federal income tax and withholding system with a simple 23 percent retail sales tax on new goods and services. This dramatic revision of the current system, which would eliminate the reviled IRS, has already caught fire in the American heartland, with more than six hundred thousand taxpayers signing on in support of the plan.
As Boortz and Linder reveal in this first book on the FairTax, this radical but eminently sensible plan would end the annual national nightmare of filing income tax returns, while at the same time enlarging the federal tax base by collecting sales tax from every retail consumer in the country. The FairTax, they argue, would transform the fearsome bureaucracy of the IRS into a more transparent, accountable, and equitable tax collection system. Among other benefits, it will:
- Make America's tax code truly voluntary, without reducing revenue
- Replace today's indecipherable tax code with one simple sales tax
- Protect lower-income Americans by covering the tax on basic necessities
- Eliminate billions of dollars in embedded taxes we don't even know we're paying
- Bring offshore corporate dollars back into the U.S. economy
Endorsed by scores of leading economists and supported by a huge and growing grassroots movement, the FairTax Plan could revolutionize the way America pays for itself. In this straight-talking book, Neal Boortz and John Linder show you how it would work—and how you can help make it happen.
- Print length208 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherWilliam Morrow
- Publication dateAugust 2, 2005
- Dimensions6 x 1.25 x 8.75 inches
- ISBN-100060875410
- ISBN-13978-0060875411
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The host of radio's The Neal Boortz Show, syndicated in nearly two hundred national markets, Neal Boortz is the author (with Congressman John Linder) of the New York Times bestsellers The FairTax Book and FairTax: The Truth, and author of The Terrible Truth About Liberals. He has been nominated twice for the National Association of Broadcasters' Marconi Award and divides his time between Atlanta, Georgia, and Naples, Florida.
Congressman John Linder (R-Ga) is a longtime champion of tax reform and the primary sponsor of the FairTax Act. He divides his time between Duluth, Georgia, and Washington, D.C.
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- Publisher : William Morrow (August 2, 2005)
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1. I am a stone-cold liberal in the vein of Johnson, Kennedy, Roosevelt, etc.
2. I absolutely support the "FairTax"
3. I'm not going to debate the merits of the "FairTax" in this review.
I figured, hey, why debate the topic when there is a perfectly good book out there which does it so nicely. To the guys who cut/copy/paste other people's reviews, get a life, or at least an opinion of your own. To the folks who use terms like `Price Elasticity' and `Economic Drivers' without understanding them, buy an economics book.
That said, and having read 2 of the top 5 books on Amazon.com recently, I have to say I enjoyed `Harry Potter' a lot more, but the one I'm going to tell you to buy is `The Fair Tax Book'. Why?
First off, buying the book constitutes `voting with your dollars' which is the best kind of vote and the one most likely to be listened to by our representatives in Washington.
Additionally, Boortz and Linder do an absolutely awesome job of communicating what is in all honesty an absurdly dry topic, in a fun and interesting way. Regardless of whether you support the "FairTax", oppose it, or simply look at that thirty-some-odd percent deduction from every paycheck and scratch your head wondering if there is a better way, this book will open up the debate and give you something to think about.
So absolutely, buy the book, educate yourself, and show Congress and the President that while a significant percentage of High school graduates don't know who the Vice President is, there are an equally significant percentage of the people who are very concerned about our present tax system and are demanding reform.
All of that said, there are a couple of issues I have with the text. In many places it read a little too much like propaganda, I'm sure this is for entertainment value, or simply to ease "lazy thinkers" into the subject, but Boortz you should know from your experience, that at best it turns off an intelligent reader, and at worst it gives folks already looking for a way to poke holes some straws to grasp at.
Secondly, I would have been interested to hear about some deeper economic projections on the ramifications of the "FairTax" (which remains in quotes because while I agree that the proposed national retail sales tax is probably the "fairest" tax proposal on the table, it is also still sounds a bit too much like spin). My concern with the economic projections is that if everything works out the way that the book suggests (which it likely will), there will likely be increasing inflationary pressures (all that money in people's hands, all those new jobs, prices about the same), that will certainly comeback and bite us. Now too much money in folks hands causing inflation is a pretty darn good problem to have, but one I'd like addressed.
Conclusion: good book, well written, and a fascinating view into a stone-boring subject matter that we should all be concerned about.
(1995)
As a retired Certified Public Accountant (ICPA), and as a constituent of the Congressman before he retired and a listener to Boortz on WSB Radio, I pretty much agree with his recommendations in the book with one major exception:
I don’t think corporations should be exempt, not because I disagree with their logic; it is just that why muddy up the waters and gives the IGNORANT LAME STREAM MEDIA SOMETHING TO demagogue? IGNORANT doesn’t mean stupid, by the way or not intelligent it means not informed or educated in an area.
I don’t know much about fashion design, does that make me ignorant? Answer, yes! I’ll admit that I am ignorant about fashion. Could I learn if I chose to? Probably.
THE IGNORANT LAME STREAM MEDIA is generally ignorant about anything financial.
I believe the Fair Tax could revolutionize the American Economy. THE IGNORANT LAME STREAM MEDIA often gets the percentage rate wrong:
Let me explain:
You have a farmer who sells a portion of his or her crop of corn for $100. What is the tax on that transaction (if the rate is 5%. (100x .05= $5.00). The farmer turns around and pays $50.00 for groceries tax equals $2.50. So far we have 100+ 50.00 in gross Domestic Product and 7.50 in taxes paid.
Here’e the part that IGNORANT LAME STREAM MEDIA typically gets wrong. It does not end there. The Farmer has so far saved $50.00 so no taxes were paid on that, the grocer replenishes the groceries based on the wholesale price (say 95% of retail or $49.00) that equals $2.45 in taxes. Depending on the VELOCITY OF THE MONEY SUPPLY (M-2) and the savings rate it would take a room full of economist to calculate the tax rate required to replicate the same tax receipts and that would probably be wrong. Why would that be wrong? Because the very fact that the taxation method has changed would change behavior, In My Humble Opinion (IMHO). To come close, the GAO or CBO would need to use Stochastic Analysis not Deterministic Analysis.
I highly recommend this book to everybody who cares about America. Yes, it is that important. I hope Rob Woodall, John Linder’s heir in Congress, can get it passed into law. I expect that it’ll take a major push by a Presidential candidate to get’er done, however. The IGNORANT LAME STREAM MEDIA doesn’t seem to understand the prebate portion of this tax system.
One thing I especially like about it is that everybody would pay taxes when they purchased something. You don’t want to pay taxes, don’t purchase anything. In my opinion the American Public would know how much. Politicians probably would not like this, because they couldn’t hide the real tax rate anymore or the costs of deductions or exemptions.
I doubt that Congress will easily agree to give up their power, however. How would they enforce Obamacare, for example. It is currently done via the tax code.
Gunner, February 2014








