FairTax Update: Growing Support, “Joe the Plumber” Helps Spread Word
From a recent email from the FairTax organization:
Dear FairTax supporter,
I wanted to drop you a note–in the middle of some very hectic days–to fill you in on a few exciting things that are happening with our national campaign right now. This is a time of growth and new excitement about the FairTax that is helping us build the essential grassroots base.
We’ve appeared on more than 700 radio talk shows in the last 28 months! These shows are bringing more and more people to the FairTax.org web site and many new supporters are joining our cause! Here are a few other items I think you will find of interest:
The New FairTax Ad
Here’s a sneak peek at our Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) ad running in Monday’s edition of the paper. We’ve used humor to get across a serious message to a large national audience. Our two past ads in IBD and our ads in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and smaller papers were big hits causing a real spike in both membership recruitment and web visits.The Rallies
We are up to our necks now in the final details of our two upcoming FairTax rallies. The rallies will be exciting and a lot of fun and will see national figures like Mike Huckabee and Neal Boortz as well as prominent local FairTaxers. Sean Hannity’s show will live broadcast an interview from our South Carolina rally, April 15th.
RSVP for Jacksonville, FL Rally on April 11th
RSVP for Columbia, SC Rally on April 15th
Web streaming the “Save the Nation” South Carolina Rally
We will be showing the very best FairTax YouTube videos at each rally and the South Carolina rally will be featured on a special web streaming link at FairTax.org. Please be sure to sign up for access now if you have not already.The FairTax Petition
We are closing in on 100,000 petition signatures as I write this message (Sign the petition now if you have not already). The petition will be delivered to the White House on or shortly after April 15th. Together with our outstanding response to Mr. Obama’s website, the “Reinvent the RNC” web site and “ChangeDC” we are making our presence known.On Capitol Hill
The recent “Special Order” on the floor of the House of Representatives, was hosted by Rep. Steve King of Iowa and featured an hour of talk about the FairTax. It was seen across the nation and created a lot of helpful and healthy excitement. We are still getting resistance from DC tax reform groups–of all people–as well as Members of Congress but that resistance will increasingly evaporate as we continue to grow stronger.Growing Supporter Base
Right now, we are adding from 300 to 600 new supporters a day. This is the time to reach out to everyone you know and tell them that the FairTax is non-partisan, can save the economy and help every taxpayer. Here is an issue that both Democrats and Republicans can agree on!Here at HQ
After April 15th, our biggest push will be turning FairTaxers out to Town Hall meetings hosted by elected officials. It is high time they hear, face-to-face from hometown constituents on the FairTax. This can make a big difference in winning co-sponsors to our legislation.National Voices
Finally, we’ve been talking a lot recently with “Joe the Plumber” who is launching a national push for the FairTax. Joe represents the voice of the average man in desiring a better tax system and his help is most welcome. Watch Joe talk about the FairTax on HBO tonight on “Real Time with Bill Maher” and on Fox Sunday night on “Geraldo At Large.” He’ll be on stage in Lansing, Michigan and outside Atlanta at a Tea Party rallies April 15th talking about the FairTax. You go Joe!We’ve also been talking a lot with Tea Party national leaders. The Tea Parties are a true grassroots outpouring of discontent with government spending and we are the best answer for the nation. They are organizing around the problem and we are organizing around the solution. Our two campaigns belong together. Neal Boortz and Mike Huckabee continue to carry our message to a national audience and we are, of course, very grateful.
I hope to see many of you at the upcoming rallies. Keep the faith–and keep up the good work!
Sincerely,
Ken Hoagland
National Communications Director
i like our tax system the way it is
what i don’t like is when
political parties raise taxes
or manipulate it take more of our income away
or
threaten to increase our with holdings without knowing it.
There is no such thing as “fair” tax system. What is fair in
high income states is not fair in low income states. The high
income states are always screwing the low income states. Example? The recent OBAMA “stimulus”plan. The low income states are rejecting it and the high income states like MI (union based inflated labor earning), NY (welfare state) and CA (illegal immigration state) are taking the fund as expense of other states rejecting them. It’s a case of rewarding a liberal failed state at the expense of the other states.
Plus you get into Article 9 of constitution issues. Basically you have companies and individuals tied into a long line of way to do business and handle your financial affairs. Any drastic change of that process would dramatically and negitively influence the outcome.
Then you have a whole industry, tens of thousands of private accountanta, companies (HR Block), software, etc. impacted again negattively.
Finally, a simplier or “fairer” system will only allow the political party to make it easier to get their hands on more of what you earn.
The smartest way to a “fairer” system is to hire a smarter tax law accountant.
Phil,
Well said, and I agree completely with you! Keep up the good work.
We the people WILL take back our govt and country, and away from these corrupt criminals who call themselves politicians, when infact all they are, are legalized mafia.
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KJ,
The tea parties have allowed numerous sub-issues to be represented by however small a minority there is to represent a given issue.
On the income tax, my problem with it is that it allows the government to know everything about my life (my libertarian streak is constantly biased towards getting the government out of my life as much as possible) and it promotes war. Yes — historically, statists have known that the best way to maintain a war footing is to invoke an income tax in order to always have monies on hand. However, as Ayn Rand and our founding fathers would point out, when a society is truly free, that society has no need to go to war except to prevent a non-free society from making an intrusion.
-Phil
I thought the tea parties were to protest the outrageous spending being approved in Washington, not to demonstrate for a “fair tax”.
We can live with an income tax and have for about 100 years. We can’t make it printing money.
FairTax proponents who complain about the complexity of the Internal Revenue Code are going to have a hard time convincing those of us who have actually read this bill that it will simplify the tax code when it contains language exactly like that which appears in the tax code:
FairTax advocates claim that their plan would repeal of the 16th Amendment. However, all S.296 does is repeal Subtitle A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 that relates to income taxes and self-employment taxes and Subtitle C that relates to payroll taxes and the withholding of income taxes. The only mention of the 16th Amendment in S.296 is when it says: “Congress further finds that the 16th amendment to the United States Constitution should be repealed.”
To repeal the 16th Amendment would require a constitutional amendment. Can Congress be relied on to pass a constitutional amendment that repeals the 16th amendment after a national sales tax has already been enacted? And even if Congress passed a constitutional amendment, it would still have to be approved by three-fourths of the states. Without the repeal of the 16th Amendment, what is to prevent an income tax from being imposed again after a national sales tax has been enacted?
U.S. Constitution – Amendment 16
Amendment 16 – Status of Income Tax Clarified
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.>>
There are a number of opinions, all rejected by the U.S. court system, that the 16th Amendment is unconstitutional.
For those that are in agreement with that position than support of FairTax seems hypocritical at best.