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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.

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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)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0060875410
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0060875411
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.81 x 8.25 inches

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How would they enforce Obamacare, for example. It is currently done via the tax code.

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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

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"The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has" --------------Will Rogers

Imagine, "April 15th just another spring day". "Consumption Tax" crusader's Neal Boortz and John Linder deliver thought (anger) provoking examples of the waste and corruption the current (legalized theft) tax system induces, along with their fortified plan of changing it. Playfully written (all Boortz), short, to the point, and simple enough a child could understand. These guys tackle difficult questions and shoulder good arguments against the opponents.

I have been waiting for something like this for years----and here it is; do you think any Presidential candidate will risk it? We cannot continue on this road: the tax code is like a many colored threadbare patchwork quilt that punishes achievement; it has failed. Let's send the power back to the people; the burden lifts from us to the government (where it belongs). The IRS "to spend more than $400 billion to collect just three times that in revenue is not only inefficient, its completely dumb"

Boortz and Linder start out with a painful history lesson. They then site what will occur once this plan is initiated: money lost oversees will come back here, hidden taxes will be wiped out (will be able to better track where your government tax dollars are going; who's money is it?), government will be more accountable, will encourage businesses and workers to come back to the US, will slow the effect of tax evasion (the tax code spawns corruption, greed and lies), and social security and medicare/caid will benefit; with a one time tax on goods, the economy will ignite say the experts, and it "would bring a period of transformation and economic growth to America such has never been seen before". The one negative factor of our current system that I never thought of is the privacy issue. They end the book by addressing the charges made against the plan; those of course who profit from our tax system will be against it.

We may look at the boiling frog analogy when it comes to the evolution of the tax. We've been had my friends; what a waste. Give to Caesar what is Caesar's you may say, well maybe but I don't see it (the current system) as being biblical: it is oppressive, it stirs class hatred, it is Marxist in its underpinnings, and it keeps the poor poor and dependent. At what point do the rich pay their fair share? Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" comes to mind: I recommend this girthy novel just for its look at what would happen to our country if the corporate minds were to capitulate and vanish. Yes, the tax percentage rate (even using the "fair tax") could be raised each year. But it is up to us to vote for that candidate who won't raise them. Is there a politician in the wings who has the will? Everyone! needs to read this and consider this or a similar plan. Do you know what you actually make?

"The income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today" ---------------Herman Wouk

Wish you well
Scott

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