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The 2017 tax plan limited to $10,000 the itemized deduction allowed for state and local real estate and personal property taxes and either income taxes or sales taxes (SALT) on itemized income tax returns. Because the SALT deduction is primarily used by citizens in Blue States, even though also by higher income earners with high property taxes in all states, it has been attacked as politically motivated. Read More.

It is said that only two things are certain: death and taxes. With the government shutdown, the timing of your tax return is far from certain. Read on to learn how the FAIRtax would help solve this problem (among many others)… Read More.

When you hear that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is 2.9% or 1.8% you may feel that they are just numbers. In fact, the average person probably only has a vague idea of what makes up the GDP numbers we hear about in the media. Simply put, the annual GDP measures the size of the US economy – it is the market value of all goods and services produced by labor and property within a country in a year. It includes both private and public consumption, investments, government expenditure and net exports. Read More.

Most people in America still believe in the basic principle that to get more of something you should reward it. We know that if children find that they can get what they want by screaming and throwing a tantrum every time someone says no, they will use screaming and tantrums as a way of addressing anything they don’t like… Read More.

St. Patrick talked about the Washington, D.C. swamp. Don’t believe me? Read on. Read More.

Over the years, I have met and often been on panels with many economists—some Nobel Prize-winning economists. Almost all these men and women were personable and treated me with reasonable deference as they dismissed my arguments about the advantages of the FAIRtax over the present income/payroll tax system. Read More.

The Florida political attacks on the FAIRtax haven’t stopped, and as Benjamin Franklin said, “Half a truth is often a great lie.” It’s time to separate fact from fiction. Read More.

The election is over. What happens next for FAIRtax? Read More.

September 17th might be the most important holiday in America that nobody recognizes: Constitution Day. We the People created a new form of government based on liberty, and FAIRtax can help us regain some of the freedoms we’ve lost in the last 231 years… Read More.

Car sales are nearing an all-time high. Here’s how FAIRtax affects the purchase of a vehicle. It might not be what you think… Read More.

Russell Long served as a U.S. Senator from 1948 until 1987 and was chairman of the Senate Finance Committee for fifteen years from 1966 to 1981. During a meeting at his Washington, D.C. office in the early 1990’s, the Senator related that during his time on the Senate Finance Committee, there was always a constant stream of lobbyists explaining why they were in favor of tax reform as long as it did not affect their client’s particular tax benefit… Read More.

In 1954, Congress enacted the clergy housing allowance which allows a church to provide a housing allowance to its minister that is not taxable as income to the minister. The Freedom From Religion Foundation website describes its purpose: “The history of Western civilization shows us that most social and moral progress has been brought about by persons free from religion. In modern times the first to speak out for prison reform, for humane treatment of the mentally ill, for abolition of capital punishment, for women’s right to vote, for death with dignity for the terminally ill, and for the right to choose contraception, sterilization and abortion have been freethinkers, just as they were the first to call for an end to slavery. The Foundation works as an umbrella for those who are free from religion and are committed to the cherished principle of separation of state and church.” Read More.

You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone. Our current income tax system is (unfortunately) all we’ve ever known. Imagine what it would be like to eliminate it completely… along with all the complexity, confusion, and cost that comes with it. Read More.

What do the Yellow Vests protesting in France have in common with taxation in the United States? It might not be what you think… Read More.

On January 24, 1965, Winston Churchill died at the age of 90. He was in the public eye from a very young age because of his reporting from South Africa about the Boer War and being captured and then escaping his captors. It is also because the first of his 43 books was published in 1898. Read More.