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​Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is boosting its starting hourly wage to $11 and delivering bonuses to employees, capitalizing on the U.S. tax overhaul to stay competitive in a tightening labor market. Read More.

​Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is boosting its starting hourly wage to $11 and delivering bonuses to employees, capitalizing on the U.S. tax overhaul to stay competitive in a tightening labor market. Read More.

​Last year, Americans for Fair Taxation invested a great deal of thought and time in creating a new online community for FAIRtax supporters and activists. Using contributions from everyday Americans who care about fair taxation, we sought out the perfect platform and built our new community from the ground up. Read More.

People in the real estate industry have long championed the Mortgage Interest Deduction (MID). The MID allows a taxpayer to reduce the amount of income subject to the federal income tax by the amount paid in interest on their home mortgage… Read More.

Many of us smile and agree with the statement by Spenser Tracy, “Acting is not the noblest profession in the world, but there are things lower than acting. Not many, mind you - but politicians give you something to look down on from time to time.” Read More.

How does FAIRtax impact charitable giving? Read More.

Happy Holidays from FAIRtax! Read More.

When the FAIRtax is explained to many audiences, it is easy to see people thinking of the impact on their family if items were increased in price by 23%. Since most in the audience are on a budget, the prospect of suddenly paying that much more is very concerning… Read More.

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

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.

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.

All of us know that there are many reasons to pass the FAIRtax and we don’t need to list them here. However, in this the world’s greatest economy we have a growing crisis. According to a national survey conducted online by Harris Poll on behalf of CareerBuilder: Read More.

After the State of the Union address, we were faced with a fork in America’s path: Do we choose freedom or socialism? This week, Steve Hayes examines this choice and how the FAIRtax might just be the liberty we’re searching for. Read More.

States with high taxes aren’t happy about the recent tax cuts. Why? Because their taxes are too high. So who to blame? The federal government who cut taxes, of course. Read More.