[groanup]

Call your reps and Senators NOW!! Let's give it legs!!!

[groanup]

ping all your lists please

[BubbaTheRocketScientist]

Great idea!!!

[taxcontrol]

Republicans should go to the American people with the moral argument that taxing anyone or anything more than 25% is immoral. It should be wrong for the government to take more than 1 out of every 4 dollars.... etc.

[PA Engineer]

Before the next election. ;-) I like it.

[doodad]

My former Rep and now Senator. He will get an attaboy call tomorrow!

[ancient_geezer]

Looks good, cept they should drop the committee and go for real. We've had the committee, enough is enough. Time to get off the pot and get down to business.

A Taxreform bump for you all.

If anyone would like to be added to this ping list let me know.

John Linder in the House(HR25) & Saxby Chambliss Senate(S25) offer a comprehensive bill to kill all income and SS/Medicare payroll taxes outright and replace them with with a national retail sales tax administered by the states.

H.R.25,S.25
A bill to promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national retail sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.

Refer for additional information:

• search: "national sales tax" OR "national retail sales tax" OR "fairtax"

[Conservative Goddess]

I just checked thomas.loc.gov.....

Doesn't appear that there is a companion bill in the House yet. We need to ask our Reps to sponsor the companion bill in the House.......

[ovrtaxt]

Go Isakson!! Wow I thought he was a lost cause.

[Man50D]

Isakson needs to be informed about the Fair Tax.

[deaconjim]

My respect for Isaakson has just gone way up. Let's get busy!

[eeevil conservative]

NO WAY!

I HATE THE FLAT TAX!

We need to go with the FAIR TAX!

NOT FLAT- FAIR...

[Lancey Howard]

Wow. I remember all the talk about this guy Johnny Isakson being some kind of a liberal when he was running for his seat. Hats off to Johnny!

[verity]

Naive.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Isakson's bill also creates a commission that would be required to examine and to recommend to Congress plausible replacements for the tax code.

President Bush did this last year, the commission gave President Bush and the rest of the working people of the U.S. the collective middle finger.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Someone should mail Rep Johnny Isakson as copy of the Fairtax book.

[lewislynn]

Though there was no relation other than wishful thinking. This bill was touted by Ancient Geezer and others as the "sister" bill to the Fairtax:

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to abolish the Federal income tax.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

April 14, 1999

Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas (for himself, Mr. THOMAS, Mr. PAUL, Mr. LARGENT , Mr. COX, Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland, Mr. BARTON of Texas, Mrs. MYRICK, Mr. HOSTETTLER, Mr. DOOLITTLE, Mr. TAUZIN, Mr. CAMPBELL, Mr. TANCREDO, Mr. BALLENGER, Mr. GIBBONS, Mr. HEFLEY, Mr. HAYWORTH, Mr. SCHAFFER, Mr. PITTS, Mr. COOKSEY, Mrs. CHENOWETH, Mr. BARR of Georgia, Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. MILLER of Florida, Mr. CAMP, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. CHAMBLISS, Mr. HERGER, Mr. LINDER, Mr. STUMP, Mr. EVERETT, Mr. DELAY, Mr. BONILLA, and Mr. SKEEN) introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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JOINT RESOLUTION

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to abolish the Federal income tax.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:

`Article --

`SECTION 1. Three years after the ratification of this article of amendment, the sixteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is repealed, and the Congress shall have no power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, except in time of war declared by the Congress.'

`SECTION 2. Not later than 180 days after the ratification of the article of amendment proposed by this joint resolution, the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the Senate recommendations for any legislation that may be necessary to implement that article.'.

Oh yea, notice the coincidental date? That was seven years ago. It's the same dangling carrot year after year.

[numberonepal]

Finally Isakson speaks. It's about time us Gerogians heard his voice. I'm behind him 100%.

[phil_will1]

Oh boy!!! Just what we need ... another commission.

That way the legislators can delay doing their jobs in this area for another year or so.

[Jackknife]

He's one of my senators. Kudos!!

[Talking_Mouse]

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