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Interview conducted today with Lori Klein, national spokesperson for fairtax.org on the issue of Fair Tax legislation as well as the upcoming Tea Party events coming up this week. Interview conducted by Tom Fredriksen, Old Glory Radio. - LINK TO AUDIO / VIDEO INTERVIEW -

. . . If opening day is the best day of the year for professional athletes, then April 15 -- tax day -- is probably the worst. Especially now that 20 of the 24 states with franchises in at least one of the four major pro leagues -- the NFL, NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball -- have laws that require visiting athletes to pay state income tax for each game they play there. Considering that top-level athletes in football, basketball, hockey and baseball now make an annual average salary of $2.9 million, that means big bucks for states such...

Waging war against the IRS.

Tax Lovers of America, I wish to alert you to a serious problem. There is a movement across the country to dispose of the Federal Income Tax System and replace it with a National Sales Tax, also called a "consumption tax." It's known as the FairTax proposal. Not only will we lose our income and payroll taxes but we will also lose our gift taxes, estate taxes, capital gains taxes, alternative minimum taxes, Social Security/Medicare taxes, self-employment taxes, and corporate taxes. All this WITHOUT reducing revenue to the Federal Government! The problems with this may already be obvious to you...

Our current income tax system, inaugurated in 1913 with the adoption of the 16th Amendment, began with a 1 percent tax on taxable income above $3,000 ($4,000 for married couples). A series of surcharges of up to 6 percent were applied to higher incomes, with the maximum rate being 7 percent on taxable income over $500,000. Less than 0.5 percent of the population ended up paying income tax. From these humble beginnings, the income tax soon blossomed, thanks to World War I, into a tax with a minimum rate that doubled and a maximum rate that reached 77 percent on...

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The White House Wednesday announced a new task force headed by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker to reform the Byzantine US tax code in the hope of recouping billions in lost revenue. White House budget chief Peter Orszag said Volcker and four other top economists will report their recommendations back to President Barack Obama by December 4, and their review will cover three main areas. "One is tax simplification, the second is closing tax loopholes and reducing tax evasion, and the third is reducing corporate welfare," the director of the Office of Management and Budget told...

Iowa Congressman Steve King hosted a "Special Order" on the House floor on March 17 to discuss the FairTax. For an hour, Members of Congress discussed how our legislation can save the U.S. economy. Several H.R. 25 co-sponsors spoke about the FairTax during this historic session. Watch The Video Learn More

Phil Hinson, National Spokesman on Radio Monday, AM March 2, 2009 from 8:15am to 9am – Corning , NY and your computer Special heads up notice for Fair Tax Nation Members and guests. Phil Hinson, National Spokesman for FairTax.org, will be interviewed on the popular “Frankly Speaking Radio show” , with Frank Acomb,... Organized by FairTax.org | Type: radio, interview March 3Tuesday Alabama State Director, National Spokesman on Radio March 3, 2009 from 6pm to 7pm – National coverage and your home computer Special heads up notice for Fair Tax Nation Members and guests. Alabama State Director and National...

You Can Help Save the Nation For Tax Day 2009, we're collecting names to send a message to President Obama about the FairTax, the real stimulus package America needs now more than never. You can make a difference by raising your voice for the FairTax during this critical time for our country. Help us send a powerful message to the White House: Read the "Save the Nation" petition to the right and add your name below.

For Dale Allee, a second-generation cattle rancher in southern Colorado, the idiom that nothing is certain but death and taxes is now a reality. "I just turned 80 last week. You know what that means? That means I'm not going to be around here very long, and somebody's going to have to pay those taxes," said Allee, who fears federal estate taxes will thwart his plans to pass his 4,200-acre Pueblo County ranch to his children. Land-rich but cash poor, Western ranchers are lobbying Washington to exempt them from the estate tax, which can force heirs to sell their inheritance...

America’s economic woes remind us that there’s never been a more important time for the FairTax than right now. Come join thousands of your fellow FairTax supporters, and help us make that point clear to nation for Tax Day 2009. Our "Save the Nation" rally promises to be a great event. We’ll have a number of FairTax All-Stars on hand including radio show host and voice of the FairTax, Neil Boortz, Ken Hoagland, National Communications Director from Americans for Fair Taxation, and many more (final schedule and speaker list is still being finalized). Jacksonville, FL | Saturday, April 11 Doors...

Is it time for the FairTax? When they see a problem – immigration, energy, or a collapse of the credit markets – politicians step forward and announce, “We must do SOMETHING!” That part is a given. What is not a given is what SOMETHING is. And, alas, it comes down to whatever the majority party in the House and in the Senate decides it will be. It will generally be a combination of taxes and spending, and in the current trillion dollar “stimulus” package the spending portion is pork and the tax portion is welfare. To get people back to...

This isn’t a economic recover plan or a stimulus bill.  It is a Democrat wish list, a compilation of projects and schemes they have dreamed about but couldn’t get funded.  Under the advice of Obama’s Chief of Staff, they haven’t “let a crisis go to waste.”  They have even stuck a dagger in “very heart of the widely applauded Welfare Reform Act of 1996,” an Act that has proven positive results. With all the doom-speak, with all the speed and will all the spending, economist agree, this will not help the economy.  Even the Congressional Budget Office expects it to...

If we take the former Health and Human Services nominee, the secretary of the Treasury and the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee at face value, federal taxes owed but not paid by each are really an indictment of the income tax system itself. Given the complexity of the tax code, their explanations are not entirely without the ring of truth. But when the chairman of the congressional committee that writes federal tax laws, the man responsible for running the IRS as the secretary of the Treasury and the nominee to head the agency responsible for Social Security...

February 5Thursday Ohio Conference Call February 5, 2009 at 8:15pm – Your house Ohio Monthly Conference Call. The call in number is 1-218-486-8700 access code is 163016. Note the number listed on the event is my cell number in case you have a question it is not the call in num... Organized by Dave Sibole | Type: Conference, Call February 7Saturday Grass Roots Freedom Ride Inaugual Ride & Event February 7, 2009 at 12pm – RaceWorldUSA, Bike with us or meet us in Cornelius, NC (north of Charlotte). Learn about the goals of GFR, enjoy FairTax camaraderie and the...

SEC. 401. ELIMINATION OF SALES TAX IF SIXTEENTH AMENDMENT NOT REPEALED. If the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is not repealed before the end of the 7-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, then all provisions of, and amendments made by, this Act shall not apply to any use or consumption in any year beginning after December 31 of the calendar year in which or with which such period ends, except that the Sales Tax Bureau of the Department of the Treasury shall not be terminated until 6 months after such...

WASHINGTON -- The No. 1 problem facing U.S. taxpayers? A tax code so complex that Americans spend $193 billion per year just trying to figure out how much they owe, said Nina Olson, the National Taxpayer Advocate, in her annual report to Congress on Wednesday. That amounts to 14% of all income taxes collected, according to Ms. Olson. Tax-code changes have averaged one per day over the past eight years -- with 500 changes in 2008 alone, she said.

The FairTax has been introduced into the 111th Congress as H.R. 25. While that's good news in and of itself, here's some better news. The FairTax is being introduced with more co-sponsors than at any previous Congress. Now why do you think this is? It's because of you .. those of you who are undying in your support of this badly needed tax reform proposal. Now ... since PEBO is making a big time speech today on the economy, here's a little reminder about the FairTax. PEBO is considering a one trillion dollar stimulus bill. Well, what about a $13...

There’s a lot of talk in Washington about yet another so-called “stimulus” package. If the next one is anything like the last one it will simply be a mechanism for taking money away from people who aren’t spending it the way politicians would like, and transferring it to people who will. Our soon-to-be ruler feels like adding some grandiose public works projects (raking leaves in a National Forest) to the list. Let’s break away from these political stimulus ideas for a few minutes and study an absolutely brilliant idea from Texas Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert. Now Louie hasn’t been around...

FairTax volunteers led by Georgia State Director Gene Key put together a 2,500 person FairTax "Truth" Rally at the Gwinette Center Sunday outside Atlanta. Ken Hoagland of FairTax.org offered thanks to the excellent team in Georgia for their hard work and quick action. The rally came in response to distortions of the FairTax by the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee on behalf of challenger Jim Martin. Mr. Martin, trying to unseat Georgia Senator and a FairTax bill co-sponsor Saxby Chambliss, later distanced himself from the ads but then added, "They’re right". Mr. Martin was invited to attend but did not respond....