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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.

Happy Thanksgiving from Americans for Fair Taxation! The swamp is certainly celebrating the holiday. Here’s why… Read More.

When I started to read the final tax bill that was signed by the President, I recalled a statement by Abraham Lincoln when a reporter asked him about the losses his party suffered in the mid-term elections. Lincoln said about the boy who stubbed his toe, “I am too big to cry but it hurts too much to laugh.” Read More.

Taxation of transferred property after a person’s death dates back nearly 3.000 years. Today, we call it the Estate Tax… and the FAIRtax eliminates it. Read More.

There’s a new idea floating around the Senate: Taxing an individual’s wealth, not just their income. Our Chairman, a former tax attorney, discusses this new wealth tax in this week’s Chairman’s Report. Read on! Read More.

The wall on the southern border is all over the news lately. This week’s Chairman’s Report looks at the cost per taxpayer - and it isn’t as simple as you think. What do the numbers say? Will the wall save taxpayer dollars or not? And how does the FAIRtax figure in? Read on… Read More.