Chairman Reports

In USA Today, Ways And Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady published an op-ed where he boasted that the recently enacted tax plan said “…good riddance to that outdated monstrosity of a tax code that took too much of your money, sent our American jobs overseas, and kept our economy so slow many workers didn’t see a pay raise for a decade or more.” Read More.

To a person who uses the logic of someone who works for a living and lives outside of the Swamp, any legitimate tax bill that seeks to reform the existing broken income/payroll tax system would eliminate tax extenders. Tax extenders are special tax benefits that have to be renewed, usually in one to three years, or they expire. The Swamp loves these tax extenders because then they can extort the beneficiaries for a continuing flow of funds in order that the Swamp can influence Congress to extend it over and over again. Read More.

Happy Holidays from FAIRtax! Read More.

We put out a press release on the power of FAIRtax supporters. Why? Because we frustrated the swamp - in other words, we made sure the truth won the day. Read on! Read More.

Many pundits and spokespeople for the Swamp (they are often the same) shrilly denounce the recent income tax plan because it “unfairly” limits the state and local tax deduction to $10,000. Discounting that most of these spokespeople and members of the Swamp live in states with high state and local taxes, the argument seems to be that all of the residents of the other states should “subsidize” the state tax burden paid by the people who elect to reside in states with high state and local taxes. Read More.

What happens when you step on a rattlesnake? A candidate who ran a false ad attacking FAIRtax just found out. Read More.

THE IRS IS AUDITING A LOT FEWER AMERICANS–PERCENTAGE OF INDIVIDUAL TAX AUDITS FALLS TO LOWEST LEVEL SINCE 2002 Read More.

There aren’t many problems in this country that FAIRtax doesn’t help solve, and illegal immigration is no different. How, you ask? Read on. 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.

One area of attack of the FAIRtax from Swamp supporters is regarding health care. The claims are the FAIRtax will add even more burdens on people who are sick. This is patently false. The following analysis was prepared by Karen Walby, Ph.D., Director of Research, Americans For Fair Taxation, and provides the truth. Read More.

THE IRS IS AUDITING A LOT FEWER AMERICANS–PERCENTAGE OF INDIVIDUAL TAX AUDITS FALLS TO LOWEST LEVEL SINCE 2002 Read More.

It is related that after the Titanic hit the iceberg, the Titanic band continued to play and some elegantly dressed people who could not get on a lifeboat listened and applauded. Most of the Members of Congress seem to think that if they just keep bowing to the Swamp and passing out crumbs to us they can ignore the debt abyss into which our country is rapidly descending. 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.

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.

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.