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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.

Chairman’s Report - 11/22/19: The FAIRtax, to a large extent, puts the “truth” back into the promises of politicians and empowers the voters to really understand what they are being asked to vote for. We can then concentrate on important questions like, “Is the proposal actually going to work?” or “Can it be done less expensively so it doesn’t increase The FAIRtax rate as much?”. Read More.

Grassroots Corner - 11/22/19: Orange Park, Florida Annual Fall Festival - Manny and Volunteers Red Martin, Kathleen Perera and Paul Livingston had a record success of Read More.

Democrats are considering large tax increases that could fund expanded social services, including health care, renewable energy investments and education. Read More.

Since 2011 alone, the state has lost $14.1 billion on net due to residents packing up and shipping out. Florida and Texas rank No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, for economic freedom in the U.S., compared with Illinois’ 32nd place ranking on the Economic Freedom of North America Index. Read More.

As important as a tax return is, there are actually no basic standards in place to protect taxpayers from incompetent, unethical or sloppy tax preparation services. Read More.