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Grassroots Corner - 12/13/19: Are You Ready To Network? Have you ever been all dressed up to network for The FAIRtax but had nowhere to go? Here’s an idea: Check out your local Chamber of Commerce! Read More.

Chairman’s Report - 12/13/19: Rent seeking is an economic term derived from the work of economist Adam Smith. It simply means obtaining favorable treatment, generally from a government entity. Read More.

For most Americans, filing their tax returns for the 2018 tax year is just a distant and unpleasant memory. Read More.

Families tend to give up when the process gets too cumbersome, Javice said. For low-income students, the new tax structure just makes things more complicated. Read More.

Apparently, the residents of Amelia were schooled in the wisdom of the Declaration of Independence. A wisdom that suggests, “Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of [its obligation to the People], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.” Read More.

Chairman’s Report - 12/6/19: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said, “If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence”. Read More.

Grassroots Corner - 12/6/19: What One State Group Does Well - Our California Team, for a long time, has been visiting university campuses around the Bay Area and engaging students. Read More.

Instead of just straight up taxing people’s wealth, Batchelder says, the government could instead be more aggressive in taxing the gains from wealth. Read More.

Residency audits can be invasive, long, arduous and document-intensive, and the rules are getting more complicated. Read More.

The raft of investment taxes Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren plans to levy to pay for her social programs would advantage foreign investors Read More.

Chairman’s Report - 11/29/19: To all of our FAIRtax Supporters, on behalf of Americans For Fair Taxation, I want to extend our best wishes for a wonderful and enjoyable Thanksgiving Holiday! “......as a day of thanksgiving and praise to Almighty God, the beneficent Creator and Ruler of the Universe”. - Abraham Lincoln 1864 Read More.

Grassroots Corner - 11/29/19: The FAIRtax Re-Empowers you once again to decide for yourself when and how much taxes you pay. Read More.

Tax havens are places where business people and other super-wealthy individuals keep money in offshore accounts for tax avoidance and other purposes. Read More.

France’s wealth tax led to the exodus of 10,000 millionaires in 2015 alone and President Emmanuel Macron ended it in 2017 because of the havoc it wreaked on the French economy. Shifting away from an income-tax toward a consumption tax would simplify our federal tax code. Read More.

When politicians fail at the basics of governance, they embrace moral crusades and moral hysterias. Read More.