MARTIN ETWOP SIGNS THE FAIRTAX PLEDGE - AGAIN
Candidate Martin Etwop, running for the U.S. Congress in the Second Congressional District of Texas, has again signed the FAIRtax pledge. We thank our FAIRtax leader and author, John Gaver, for making this event happen. You can watch John’s interview with Martin Etwop here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g56qy6hlEA.
We wrote about Martin in the January 10, 2022, issue of Grassroots Corner when he previously ran for Congress. Martin is originally from Uganda. Speaking about his first adopted State of California, Martin said the absence of the rule of law made California almost like Uganda, where the Governor, Pelosi, and the President were the law of the land.
Martin moved to Texas, finished law school, and is now a member of the Texas Bar. Martin became a public interest attorney. He works to hold the government accountable at all levels, from the school board to the city council to the county commissioners to the U.S. DOJ. Wherever they are messing up, Martin goes after them.
Martin is proud of having represented a “Trump train,” i.e., a caravan of 50-75 cars driving with Trump flags behind a Biden bus in Texas. The Biden people in the bus brought a legal action against the “Trump train” based on an 1872 anti-KKK law. The Biden people alleged that the Trump train was threatening and intimidating them and trying to prevent them from voting. Ironically, the plaintiffs did not even live in Texas and could not vote there even if they wanted to. Martin defended the “train” and faced thirty-five top-drawer attorneys for the Biden people. Some “train” defendants settled, but six said, “No!” One of the holdouts was a veteran; another was a pastor. After four years of litigation, Martin won a defendant's verdict. Now, Martin is seeking attorney's fees from the plaintiffs in the Biben bus. Let’s hope Martin prevails on attorney’s fees. Winning would teach the Biden bus plaintiffs a lesson about bringing frivolous cases.
Another case Martin won involved a school board election. A candidate filed to run, branding herself as a Democrat. The election was supposed to be nonpartisan. The kicker is that the candidate did not reside in the school district where she was running, but the school district didn’t remove her. She won because the Republicans split the vote. Martin then sought an injunction. Only after Martin filed did the district decide the Democrat was ineligible and refused to seat her.
Martin likes the FAIRtax because he believes the income tax is evil. Before the Sixteenth Amendment, people were not taxed for “just breathing.” Martin notes that, after someone dies, their living relatives are taxed. You are taxed when you go to work, and you are taxed when you save the money.
Martin likes the FAIRtax because it eliminates the income tax and undoes the Sixteenth Amendment. It also eliminates the IRS. Martin notes that you cannot pursue your happiness when your life is about paying taxes to the government. You become an indentured servant. The FAIRtax eliminates all that and makes the tax equal for everybody, whether or not you are legally in the country.
The incumbent is Dan Crenshaw. The primary election is only eight months away. Because the Second Congressional District of Texas is a solid Republican district, the candidate who wins the primary becomes the next Member of Congress from the district.
FAIRtax cannot endorse political candidates, but it can inform the public where candidates stand on the FAIRtax. So here is a candidate who will cosponsor and promote the FAIRtax if elected, and he will vote to pass it when it comes to the floor of the House of Representatives. Dan Crenshaw has not signed the FAIRtax Pledge and has not been a co-sponsor at any time he has represented the 2nd District.
Martin lives with his wife and four children in Conroe, Texas, near Houston. Martin was a guest on FAIRtax Power radio several years ago. You can watch the episode at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaK31YS8YHA.
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