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The Grassroots Corner - Week Beginning 6/17/24: “Letter to editor needs a response” Read More.

One of the loudest complaints raised against the FAIRtax is that it would abolish the corporate income tax. According to DC elite thinking, it’s absolutely unconscionable that billions of dollars of corporate profits would go completely untaxed. The elites sincerely believe that these mega-rich corporations have an obligation to “pay their fair share”. Read More.

The Grassroots Corner - Week Beginning 7/15/24: “Truth and Fairy Tales about Value-Added Taxes” Read More.

New laws will provide hundreds, or thousands, of dollars for families with kids and working low-income families. Read More.

Meanwhile, Trump did not endorse any of Nevada's Republican candidates for U.S. Senate but did say he'd rather be electrocuted than eaten by a shark. Read More.

The Grassroots Corner - Week Beginning 6/10/24: “Hostile Argument: We will end up with both a Sales Tax and an Income Tax” Read More.

An editorial in the Wall Street Journal discussed IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel’s testimony before the House Appropriations on May 7, 2024. Here are some of the points made in the editorial: Commissioner Werfel told legislators that the IRS faces financial collapse. “Resources are limited,” he said, and the agency “will likely use them entirely before the funding expires.” Read More.

Nearly 64.7% of Republicans voted in favor of a question asking whether state lawmakers should enact the FairTax and replace the state income and sales tax with a consumption tax equal to current state funding. Read More.

The presidential candidates are on opposite sides of the Trump tax cuts. The Donald wants them to stay and Biden has vowed to take them away. Here's what happens if they go away. Read More.

The Grassroots Corner - Week Beginning 6/3/24: “Strategic Planning” Read More.

As we embark upon another presidential campaign cycle or we at least see an escalation of the perpetual campaign cycle we currently reside in, I like to imagine a country where the FAIRtax is the law of the land as opposed to our income and payroll tax system. If the dream became a reality, would anything be different and if so, what might this look like? Read More.

Many people understand that the FAIRtax, a national retail sales tax on new retail goods and services, replaces the income/payroll tax system as the way that the federal government obtains the funds it needs to operate. There is nearly universal agreement among the nation’s economists that replacing the federal income/payroll tax system with the FAIRtax would result in a thriving economy with unprecedented economic growth. Read More.

Gavin Newsom has shunned tax increases to cover California's budget deficit, yet his latest proposal contains indirect levies on businesses. Read More.

The pastoral expanse that Art Mangels has called home for 10 years comes with views of snowy peaks, banks on the trout-rich Big Hole River and acres of grasslands traversed by bears, moose and muskrats. Read More.

The Biden administration is poised to impose a $3 trillion tax hike. That would be the effect of ending the Trump-era tax cuts. Read More.