Fair Tax – Abolish Income Tax

"Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive, it reeks with injustice and is fundamentally un-American... it has earned a rebellion and it's time we rebelled..." -President Ronald Reagan Dear Fellow Concerned American, You know him as one of the greatest President's in American history. I knew him growing up as "Dad." Growing up with him was nothing short of an adventure, an education in the meaning of freedom. He was full of love and warmth and the strength of belief and character. He embraced whole heartedly the concept of liberty, patriotism and the bold and just vision of our Founding Fathers. I have no doubt my father would be one of the FairTax's greatest champions had the FairTax Bill existed in his day. Therefore, as his eldest son, I have accepted the position of Honorary Chairman of the FairTax National Victory Campaign and am forming the Reagan FairTax Victory Team. I want you on my team! You can invest $100 and become a Reagan Team Captain, or invest just $50 and become a Team Leader. If you are ever sorry you joined, even on the last day of your membership, your dues will be 100% refunded. Click here and join my Reagan FairTax Team Right Here, Right Now! It is time and past time for our next tax revolution - together we can make it happen! This is the 30th Anniversary of my father's successful campaign to defeat Jimmy Carter for President. Then, as now, the nation was mired in a deep economic recession, our nation was viewed as in decline domestically and internationally, and the American people were looking for real and substantive change in the direction of our country. My father, Ronald Reagan, offered and went on to provide exactly what he promised, real and positive change for the United States. A big part of turning our country around was the Reagan Tax Cuts and the Reagan Tax Reforms. The FairTax will provide the same kind of free enterprise driven economic growth, simplified tax system, reduced taxes to honest Americans, millions of new jobs and a realistic way of dealing with the massive and rapidly growing deficit. As my father said: "We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American Dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him. . . . But we cannot have such reform while our tax policy is engineered by people who view the tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure." He was right then - and that's why we need the FairTax right now. So click here and join my Reagan FairTax Victory Team. The FairTax Bill now being considered in Congress, with more than 60 Senators and Members of the House of Representatives sponsoring the FairTax Bill. Why does the FairTax bill have so much support? Because the FairTax will: Eliminate forever all federal income taxes, Social Security taxes, pension taxes, capital gains taxes, taxes on businesses small and large, death taxes and all federal payroll deductions, and replace them with a single sales tax on new items purchased at retail. Shut down the IRS, and assign the 67,500-page, hopelessly complex US Tax Code to the trash pile. Free our clergy and other religious leaders to preach what they choose from their pulpits, ending forever the power of the IRS to censor freedom of religion in America and close congregations with which they disagree. Attract trillions of dollars into the U.S. economy currently in offshore accounts hiding from income and other federal taxes. Expand the national tax base dramatically to include taxation of those who illegally avoid taxation, such as drug dealers, illegal aliens and other criminals, or who benefit from special tax breaks given to the politically powerful. Lift the weight of federal taxes and payroll deductions entirely from millions of working poor and retired people. Reduce Taxes on Honest Americans by expanding the tax base to tax illegal immigrants, drug dealers and others who earn money illegally, and those who rich enough and powerful enough to make tax loopholes for themselves in the 67,500 pages of fine print in the impossibly complex U. S. Tax Code. The FairTax is the shortest path to full economic recovery and millions of new jobs, ending Congressional corruption of the tax code and providing significant tax relief to the middle class. The FairTax is our one real hope of creating the economic boom we need to deal with the massive and growing budget deficit. It is time the political class heard from the rest of us about public policy that actually benefits the public instead of Washington insiders. So click here. Take action now to join the Reagan FairTax Victory Team. More than 80 prominent economists, including Dr. Vernon Smith, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, agree with me that the FairTax will create the economic boom we desperately need, and is our one great hope for lifting the growing tax burden from the American people and our struggling economy. In the coming weeks and months, expect to see me on the national stage for the FairTax. I'll be asking a lot of you because our nation needs each of us right now. This is our year for the FairTax and I am thrilled to join the fight! Michael Reagan Honorary Chairman, FairTax National Victory Campaign P.S. Are you ready to fight for America, to join me in making a difference, to put our beloved country back on the right track? We must reach 140,000,000 voters in 50 states to demand Congress act on the FairTax Bill which is before them now. Please click here now to join me as a Member of your FairTax organization and become a part of the Reagan FairTax Team. 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Time for TEA and a Fair Tax

by  Chuck Norris

Teatime, anyone? I hope you've joined one of the thousands of TEA (Taxed Enough Already) parties or FairTax rallies, which are happening across the country April 15 to protest outrageous government spending, the deepening of our national debt, and the subsequent taxes. This is a nonpartisan time to rally around like-minded citizens and declare that we're tired of the same old political rhetoric and that we want a better way.

I personally encourage all people to voice to their representatives that we need to return to a taxation system similar to the one established by our Founding Fathers. They did not penalize productivity through taxes the way we do today. They had no Internal Revenue Service. They believed in minimal taxation. They did not pay income taxes, which were prohibited by the Constitution. They did not pay export taxes, which also were prohibited by the Constitution. But they did tax imports. The Founders believed in free trade within our own borders and a system of tariffs on imported goods.

That's a system that makes sense to me. It is a system designed to preserve individual liberty and encourage productivity (through no income taxes and no discouragement of domestic production through export taxes) while choosing to keep taxes as painless as possible (through taxes on foreign imports). And it doesn't require an IRS to run it.

The Founders would have been horrified at the bloated federal bureaucracy we have now and the maze of taxes we have to navigate: income taxes, employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, gas taxes, etc. It was excessive taxation like this that drove the Founders to rebel in the first place.

All of the Founders were opposed to domestic taxes. They regarded high taxes and aggressive tax collectors as tyrannical and always to be guarded against. Patrick Henry warned: "Excisemen may come in multitudes, for the limitation of their numbers no man knows. They may, unless the general government be restrained by a bill of rights or some similar restriction, go into your cellars and rooms and search, ransack and measure everything you eat, drink and wear." (A prophetic statement?)
The IRS wasn't started until nearly 100 years after the Revolutionary War, in 1862 as the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Its creation coincided with the creation of the income tax, which it was designed to collect. Both were the work of President Abraham Lincoln and Congress, who saw them as necessary to pay for Civil War expenses.

It is interesting to note, however, that the income tax law expired 10 years later, was revived in 1894, and then was ruled by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional in 1895. Yet in 1913, it became law through the 16th Amendment. Ever since then, the income tax has deprived families of their rightful earnings, restricted our liberties, and deprived our economy of money that could have been invested in productive enterprises.

Today the IRS is the No. 1 enemy of your pocketbook. Who doesn't fear an IRS audit? It's the only federal agency that considers you guilty until proven innocent. It can't be overhauled or even reformed (Congress' attempts have failed).

The best answer is to abolish the IRS, sweep away the present tax code, and implement FairTax's plan, which lives up to its name. As Mike Huckabee says, "Wouldn't it be nice if April 15 were just another sunny spring day?" (Mike himself will be hosting a FairTax rally in Columbia, S.C.)

FairTax's plan would do away with all taxes and would put in their place a single consumptive (fair) tax, which right now is the closest practical proposal to the taxation system favored by the Founders. With the fair tax, the harder you worked and the more money you made the better off you and our economy would be. You would pay taxes only when you bought something, which means that you could control how much you'd be taxed and that you never would be penalized for working hard.

It's time we had a system through which people didn't have to figure out ways to cheat in order to save their money. Again, as Huckabee says: "The fair tax is a completely transparent tax system. It doesn't increase taxes. It's revenue-neutral. But here's what it will do: It will bring business back to the United States that is leaving our shores because our tax laws make it impossible for an American-based business to compete. … The fair tax was designed by economists from Harvard and Stanford and some of the leading think tanks across the country."
There are also trillions of dollars hiding in offshore accounts. With the fair tax, the people with their money offshore could bring it back to invest here, which would give a huge boost to our economy. It's the biggest stimulation package there is. As the FairTax Web site says, "Think of it as the World's Biggest Economic Jumper Cables."

If the Founding Fathers were here today, I believe they would support the fair tax. As James Madison said, "Taxes on consumption are always least burdensome because they are least felt and are borne, too, by those who are both willing and able to pay them; that of all taxes on consumption, those on foreign commerce are most compatible with the genius and policy of free states."

We don't need more tax reform. We need a tax revolution! And FairTax's plan would provide it. If we all jumped on the bandwagon and demanded our representatives implement such a taxation system, we could restore our nation economically and make the financially impossible become possible again.

Friends, we must keep fighting. Join your nearest TEA party or FairTax rally, and bring your cell phone, too, so that you can call Congress and the president to share why you've gathered together. (The phone number for representatives and senators is 202-224-3121, and the president's is 202-456-1414.)

If you haven't found the nearest location for a TEA party or FairTax rally, go to http://www.TeaPartyDay.com or http://www.FairTax.org. Invite your friends, too. And don't forget to bring copies of this article or another one that explains the fair tax so others can be educated, as well. Why wait? Forward it now to everyone you know, and let's get the party rolling!

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