Grassroots Corner

MARK SCHAFF PUTS GROK AI TO THE TEST Our FAIRtax Leader in South Carolina, Mark Schaff, put Grok to the test and sent in the results. Read More.

THE WORLDWIDE MINIMUM CORPORATE TAX COMES UNRAVELED Recently, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged suspending the minimum corporate tax for large companies, which 140 countries had earlier agreed to. Read More.

MEET RANDY HAUCK Editor’s note: Randy Hauck reached out to us from Burke, Virginia, located in Fairfax County and Virginia’s 11th Congressional District. Read More.

WILL FLORIDA BECOME A FAIRTAX STATE? Recently, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis proposed eliminating the property tax in his state. Read More.

HOW WE MADE THE SURVEY HAPPEN In June, we reported the release of a national survey that was largely good news for the FAIRtax. Read More.

THIRTEEN REASONS THE TAX SYSTEM MIGHT NOT BE AS FAIR AS YOU THINK – AND HOW THE FAIRTAX MAKES IT BETTER Your friends who support the graduated income tax system are probably under the mistaken impression that in order to be fair, a tax system must be complicated. Read More.

DAVID MORELLI BRINGS THE FAIRTAX TO ARKANSAS We introduced our then-new Arkansas State Leader, David Morelli, three years ago. Read More.

STATES THAT GROW AND SHRINK DUE TO TAXES Jasmine Laws, writing in the January 8, 2025, issue of Newsweek, surveyed states experiencing the greatest population growth and decline. Read More.

DO THE RICH GET THE MOST IRS AUDITS? Do you remember how the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which passed during the Biden Administration, promised to hire 80,000 new IRS agents to go after the rich and make them pay their fair share of taxes? Read More.

HOSTILE ARGUMENT: IT IS UNFAIR THAT THE FAIRTAX TAXES FOOD, CLOTHING, HOUSING, AND MEDICINE Today, we continue a series of articles about handling attacks on the FAIRtax. Read More.

ARE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS FORECASTERS OF HOW THE FAIRTAX WOULD WORK ON FOR-PROFIT CORPORATIONS? Are local governments forecasters of how for-profit corporations would behave if we had the FAIRtax? Consider this fact. Read More.

DOES POPE LEO XIV HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE IRS? The world greeted the first American Pope with excitement when white smoke emerged from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on May 8, 2025, and Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV. Read More.

MARTIN ETWOP SIGNS THE FAIRTAX PLEDGE - AGAIN Candidate Martin Etwop, running for the U.S. Congress in the Second Congressional District of Texas, has again signed the FAIRtax pledge. Read More.

REPUBLICANS SEEK TO ABOLISH IRS AND MAKE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS PAY TAXES Earlier this year, the Washington Examiner ran an article by Rachel Schilke highlighting the fact that illegal immigrants would have to pay taxes if we had the FAIRtax. Read More.

TRUMP’S NEW FAIRTAX: THE CROSSROADS OF BLACK ECONOMIC REVIVAL OR COLLAPSE Today’s Grassroots Corner is an article from Damon K. Jones in Black Westchester (Westchester County, New York). Read More.