FairTax Blogburst: Tax Reform Still Alive
Here’s the latest FairTax blogburst.
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Folks, I told you about the good news Congressman John Linder gave us about an impending face-to-face with President Bush about the Fair Tax, and now the word is out! The Gwinnett Daily Post catches us up on this great news:
FairTax still kicking
06/04/2006By: Dave Williams
Many political observers were ready to bury U.S. Rep. John Linder’s FairTax bill last fall when President Bush’s tax reform commission gave the back of its hand to the proposed national sales tax.
The panel chose to recommend tweaking the current income tax system rather than such a dramatic overhaul of the way the federal government collects the revenue it needs to operate.
But the FairTax won’t go away. During a raucous public rally in Gwinnett County last month in support of the legislation, Linder, R-Duluth, announced that he is being offered an opportunity to present the bill to the president and House Republican leaders.
He will meet this week with the House GOP leadership, then head to the White House on a date yet to be set — accompanied by House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill. — to outline his bill to Bush.
So much for the demise of the FairTax.
“The national sales tax is very much like Freddy,’’ said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato, referring to the main character in countless installments of the “Nightmare on Elm Street” horror movie series. “It just refuses to die.’’
See? I TOLD you so! It’s POSSIBLE! And that’s not all - the Gwinnett Rally was just the beginning:
A capacity crowd of 4,500 jammed the Gwinnett Convention Center for last month’s rally, which featured Linder, Atlanta-based syndicated radio talk show host Neal Boortz and Sean Hannity of the Fox Television Network.
“We think there were 3,000 people turned away,’’ Linder said. “I was amazed.’’
The event was so successful that Linder and Boortz are talking about following it up with a series of rallies. Linder said they’re looking at Orlando, Fla., as the next stop.
Okay you guys, here’s your next chance. We gotta stick together and make this happen. If you live in the southeast (or anywhere else, for that matter), I urge you to call your local radio talk shows and implore them to get Neal Boortz, John Linder, Sean Hannity, and whoever else is on board with the Fair Tax, to come hold a rally in YOUR area! If we keep up this momentum, this could truly be a present-day Boston Tea Party that we have on our hands. It’s time to get the government out of our lives, and as John Linder said that night “it’s none of the government’s business how much money I make.” YES!
We’ve got to be vigilant, though, as well all know there are those detractors out there who want to stop us:
The FairTax also faces competition from other proposals aimed at overhauling the current system, including the flat tax on incomes once championed on the presidential campaign trail by Republican Steve Forbes.
“The vast majority agree the tax code needs drastic revision,’’ Sabato said. “The problem is nobody agrees on what the revision should be. … There just isn’t a national consensus for it or anything close to it.’’
But Sabato gives Linder high marks for persistence.
“He is trying to plant the seed,’’ Sabato said. “Who knows whether the seed may sprout and even flower? On the other hand, the seed may die in the ground.’’
My friends, we can’t let that seed die in the ground. We must keep nourishing it with our voices. If we can get 1, 2, 4 or 50 more rallies like this going, we will send a loud and clear message to Washington: “I WANT MY FAIR TAX!”
Also, send these radio stations copies of the Fair Tax book. I know it has been previously called for us to send copies to our representatives, but I’m sure they’ve gotten their copies already. It’s the people of this country we need to change - the Congress is hopeless. If your local talk show hosts can believe in this, then this movement will carry forward. You can buy them here. The government cannot ignore an informed country. The time is now!
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Interesting. A tax on consuption would be a lot more fair than a tax on income. I’d be harder to game too.
As for Mark Kennedy, I’m going to an Al Franken fundraiser tommorow night myself. Up here in Minnesota, we’re pretty convinced Mr. Kennedy has been getting elected because of his last name and all the money he throws at elections. The last election ad I recall had the Kennedy brothers and sisters talking about how much they liked their brother Mark. They must have said Kenndy fifteen times in fifteen seconds, and they never mentioned a political party once. Against a senate cantidate with equal funding, eh, we’ll see.
As to your comment about democrats and giving Iran the same deal as N. Korea - Is that suppose to mean that anything stupid is Democratic? Nice. Lets forget about how N. Korea be a special case. Sure the Iranians stormed one of our embassies, but the CIA overturned a democratically elected leader there, and replaced him with a SOB like the Shah. They are providing the world with a heck of a lot of oil, and their military is getting non-traditional training ala Iraqi insurgency.
Sure the U.S. military can do anything, but we have nose-dived into greater foreign held debt then ever in the history of the U.S. in the last five years, and the poor cats in the military are dealing with multiple tours and the back-door draft. Oh, and hasn’t Osama bin Laden said on multiple occassions that his battle plan is to over-extend the U.S. militarily by ‘having a couple jihadi raise a flag in so cornor of the earth and watching Bush’s enormous and costly economic response, just as we bled the formor superpower Russia into chaos’?
I mean a third war, when the first two are getting worse everyday? That’s Osama’s stated plan, and Bush is giving him the rope-a-dope how?
RESPONSE:
No, not every stupid plan is Democratic, but Clinton (D) sent Carter (D) to get North Korea to sign a deal that they broke before Carter (D) got back to the US. And he got a Nobel Peace Prize for it. However “appeasement” is typically a Democratic foreign policy idea.
Second, Osama said he was going to overextend troops after the invasion, not before. That and I doubt Osama really had much to do with our decision to invade Iraq. Isn’t that the left-wing zeitgeist on it anyway?
Lastly, don’t give me this crap about a “back-door draft”. You’re using draft simply because it’s a loaded word. You join the Guard knowing you can be called up. That’s the deal. It’s not mean to be a once a month party and a 2 week vacation a year. You train for war, it’s part of the package. There are minimum intelligence requirements to get into the military, people know what they are signing up for. Doesn’t make it easy, doesn’t mean they enjoy it. But they did sign up for it, so don’t misuse the word draft. There’s plenty to criticize, you don’t need to make shit up.
As far as the tax thing, I’m surprised we more or less agree on it, but that’s fair I’m sure we’re all thinkers here. I like the incentive structure a tax on consumption creates also, i.e. an incentive to save instead of spendspendspend. That more than anything will help with retirement, medical bills, and the like.
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