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What is the Fair Tax Plan?
The FairTax plan is a comprehensive proposal that replaces all federal income and payroll taxes with an integrated approach including a progressive national retail sales tax, a rebate to ensure no American pays federal taxes up to the poverty level, dollar-for-dollar revenue neutrality, and the repeal of the 16th Amendment. This non-partisan legislation (HR 25/S 25) abolishes all federal personal, gift, estate, capital gains, alternative minimum, Social Security, Medicare, self-employment, and corporate taxes and replaces them all with one simple, visible, federal retail sales tax – collected by existing state sales tax authorities. The FairTax taxes us only on what we choose to spend, not on what we earn. It does not raise any more or less revenue; it is designed to be revenue neutral. So it is also cost neutral – the final cost for goods and services changes little under the FairTax. The FairTax is a fair, efficient, transparent, and intelligent solution to the frustration and inequity of our current tax system.
FairTax.org is a non-profit, non-partisan, grassroots organization dedicated to replacing the current tax system. The organization has hundreds of thousands of members and volunteers nationwide. Its plan supports sound economic research, education of citizens and community leaders, and grassroots mobilization efforts. For more information visit the web page: www.fairtax.org or call 1-800-FAIRTAX.
What is Americans for Fair Taxation (FairTax.org)?
In August 2005 I read a book I consider revolutionary: The Fair Tax by Rep. John Linder, (R - Georgia) and Neal Boortz. It really got me thinkin' about the future for our kids and grandkids. In January I began my education and hearing other ideas through a forum started by a young lady in Orlando called Fairtaxgroups.com. Through this group I also met Marsha and Kevin Whitt from DeLand and offered them an opportunity to write monthly articles for DBI. They agreed and started in July 2006. Since then we've heard from lotsa y'all about the Fair Tax, pro, con, and plenty of questions. We're gonna publish articles on this page and give you links to other places to get more info on The Fair Tax so you can inform yourself on this plan to let us keep more of our money.
Article originally publish-ed in the August Issue of Dixie Biker Illustrated.
Kill The Code, Burn the Records, and Let Me Choose If and When and I Pay Taxes!
(And you thought tax reform discussions were boring.)
By Marsha and Kevin Whitt
The FairTax Plan, the only true tax reform, will restore freedom, liberty, and sovereignty to Americans.
The corporate income tax began in 1909, and today’s income tax on individuals began with passage of the 16th Amendment in 1913. Since then, we have been enslaved; our
very livelihood taxed. No one living in America today can remember when the IRS didn’t exist. The FairTax (US House Bill HR-25 and US Senate Bill S-25) will eliminate the IRS, repeal all federal income taxes (payroll and self-employment taxes, capital gains tax, estate tax, gift tax, corporate tax). All of those taxes will be replaced, dollar for dollar, with a 23% (inclusive rate) national retail sales tax, so that we’ll pay taxes on what we spend, at the retail level, rather than on what we earn. The FairTax Plan will also repeal the 16th Amendment so the bureaucrats can never again do to us what they’ve done over the last century.
Under our current tax code, no one is exempt from tax on income. Even the poor earning at poverty level pay taxes on every dollar they earn (payroll taxes) and even every dollar they spend. This is because all costs of doing
business are passed on, and the costs of the tax code are no exception. In fact, the costs of
the tax code (the tax itself, compliance costs, and legal tax avoidance costs) are embedded in
the price of all goods and services to the tune of 22% to 25% on average. With The FairTax,
those embedded tax costs come out, and the national retail sales tax goes back in its place,
only on new goods and services. Retail prices will stay essentially the same.
Under the FairTax, we’ll have more money in our pockets to spend, save, and invest. We’ll
take home 100% of our earnings (no more federal deductions). When you look at your next
paycheck, dust off that line that says “gross” that you haven’t looked at in years; that will be
your new take home pay. If you’re in business for yourself, image life without sending that
chunk of money to the Feds for Social Security and Medicare contributions for you and your
employees. Never again will it be the government’s business what you earn. Never again will
you make business decisions based on the tax code instead of your product or service and
customer. All savings and investments grow tax-free. We’ll be able to earn as much as we
want, without having to minimize our earnings on paper so as not to be punished for getting
ahead. No more 1040’s. No more deductions. No more tax code headaches. After the FairTax
is implemented, the IRS will be funded for a period of 3 years, but only to wrap up loose ends.
After that, the IRS, all IRS income tax records will be destroyed. That’s freedom. Just like the
Founding Fathers envisioned.
Americans will have the ability to choose if, when, and how much taxes they pay based on
their retail spending beyond the poverty level for their family size. Every family will receive a
prebate (at the beginning of each month) to cover the amount of taxes on the necessities of
life. This is determined by the established poverty level for family size. A couple (married or
not) will spend their first $20,000 tax-free, the approximate poverty level for a family of two.
Their prebate, about $4500 a year and distributed monthly, will pay them up front to cover
the national retail sales tax on necessities. A family of four will receive about $6000 a year.
The FairTax will totally untax the working poor, and many retirees, who are earning at poverty
level, and must spend all they earn just to survive. In fact, those working poor will realize a 30% increase in their take home pay. All households (even Bill Gates) will receive the prebate, regardless of what they earn or spend, to untax necessities up to the poverty level. That's why it’s "fair". We will all have choice. That’s liberty. Just like the Founding Fathers envisioned.
The current tax code has American taxpayers divided and conquered. With it the bureaucrats play the class warfare game – “we'll just tax the rich, greedy corporation, not the middle class”. Sounds pretty good to the middle class, until they learn that they pay the corporate income tax and all costs associated with it, because all cost of business is passed on. Corporations and businesses do not pay taxes, individuals do. Under the FairTax, with no more corporate tax, the United States will become the tax haven of the world. Jobs, jobs, jobs. Made-in-America jobs. US corporations, which have been driven offshore by our punitive tax code, will come home. Foreign corporations will want to come here, too, to remain competitive in a global marketplace. So, don’t worry about those displaced IRS agents and tax lobbyists; they won’t have any problem finding a real job. The United States will once again lead the world by our example of free enterprise and capitalism, as we did the first 124 years before the income tax.
Kevin speaking to bikers at our "Dang, I Couldn't Go to Sturgis" Blowout, August 12, 2006.
The FairTax will unite Americans. The politicians won't be able play the class warfare game anymore. If they try to raise my taxes, they're raising yours as well. We’ll on be on the same playing field, even on the same team. No matter our differences (political, religious, ethnic, class...) very few of us will want to see our taxes increased. Just look what happened in recent years in Tennessee when the politicians there tried to implement a state income tax. We will, as the TN Citizens did, assert our voices and our power over the politicians and bureaucrats. After all, we still live in a constitutional democratic republic. That’s sovereignty. Just like the Founding Fathers envisioned.
Compliance will dramatically improve under The FairTax. Americans don't mind paying taxes if the tax is fair; and they will have choice. The administrative cost to collect $100 will drop from $33 currently, to just $2.50 under the FairTax. It is fair, easy to understand, efficient, effective, and 45 states already have the collection mechanism in place; the others who do not will have several easy options with which to implement it.
Oh, and those ‘underground’ economies – drug dealers, prostitutes, illegal immigrants? They, through their retail purchases, will be contributing to Social Security, Medicare, the Military, etc. And, while Americans will be exempted on their spending up to poverty level, illegal immigrants will contribute from the very first dollar
Marsha, Kevin and another volunteer at their booth during our "Dang, I Couldn't Go to Sturgis" Blowout, August 12, 2006.
they spend. Right now, Social Security is funded by a narrow column of earned-income earners, and much of that can be alleviated through loopholes. Under The FairTax, Social Security will be funded by a worldwide consumption base through any retail spending here in the United States, including those 50 million foreigners who visit each year.
Go to www.FairTax.org to educate yourselves. Then, email, call, and fax your elected officials, especially your US House and Senate members, and urge them to support The FairTax (as written – we don’t want them changing this one; its about as good as it gets). Find a local group of FairTax supporters at www.FairTaxGroups.com.
If you’re in the Central Florida area, come to our local FairTax meeting, where the FairTax Plan is explained and discussed every Thursday evening at 8:00 pm, in the conference room of the Burger King at 1032 N. Woodland Blvd., Deland Florida 32724. My husband, Kevin, will explain The FairTax, and he is the very best FairTax ‘splainer man’ I know. He’s also available to address your groups or organizations, and for radio programs. Contact us at
Why me?
By Marsha and Kevin Whitt
"Why me?" asked 11-year old Athena after learning that her part of the accumulated national debt is about $225,000.
“That’s a very good question,” Kevin said. “It’s because you are a Citizen of the United States, and the politicians are spending us into oblivion.”
“Every man, woman, child, grandchild, including every little person born this morning, before their umbilical cords were even cut, is already wrapped in $225,000 of debt.”
That’s how Kevin puts it in his FairTax presentations. The numbers are staggering, but verifiable. So eventually, and very likely in our lifetime, the government will raise your taxes to pay for their unfunded promises; looks like we’re headed back to top tax rates of 94%, just like during the FDR reign.
“I don’t pay taxes,” you might say, “so the government is going to have a hard time collecting it from me.” You might not pay taxes yourself, but you’re paying a chunk of someone else’s (more on that later). But, taxes aside, all the government has to do is print more money, which lowers the value of your money, which causes inflation, so you have to spend more of your money to survive. Since we’re no longer on any gold standard, what’s to stop them?
We’ve got to control the money flowing into Washington, DC before we have any hope of controlling how it is spent. The FairTax will allow us to do just that. Once the FairTax is put in place, the federal government will get our money not forcibly, from income and payroll taxes, but when we spend it, voluntarily, at the retail level. Those of us who don’t want to contribute to their fraud, waste, and abuse can choose not to, based on our spending habits. (For those of you who might be worried about the government not getting enough of our money, don’t: consumption in the US has risen steadily every year, except for 3 years in the heart of the depression, since the 1920’s.) In fact, since you’ll have your whole paycheck (no federal withholding) you’ll have more money to spend. With more money to spend, people will spend. The government will get so much money, that we’ll have to really be on guard for their spending sprees. But, under the FairTax, that will be much easier than it is now, because the FairTax puts us all on the same level as the rich guys who can afford to hire tax attorneys to find (or create) loopholes in the current tax code (like they’ve done 14,000 times in the last 20 years). The tax code will be gone, along with the IRS (and all of your past tax records); no more special treatment of one class over another.
With no more income tax, and the pain of complying with it, businesses will be free to focus on their product and customer. We’ll see businesses expand, and new ones created. We’ll see “Made in America” again. Foreign businesses will want to come here to set up shop to work tax-free and stay competitive with us. (For those of you who are worried that corporations aren’t going to pay their “fair share”, don’t: corporations don’t pay taxes anyway, people do – all costs of business are passed on, to you: the consumer, the employee, or the shareholder.) With no tax code costs to pass on, every penny now buried in the price of stuff because of the tax code (23.5 cents on average of every dollar you spend) will fall out of prices as each business scrambles for the most market share. The FairTax (23 cents of a dollar you spend) will simply replace the cost of the tax code. So prices won’t go up. The FairTax will be applied only to new retail items. Used stuff won’t be taxed. “But I can’t buy used eggs and butter,” you might say. Don’t worry, you won’t have to; you’ll get a prebate (before you spend) each month to pay the FairTax on necessities. This is based on your family size, not your income.
Sounds pretty good, huh? Keep your whole paycheck, no more income tax, payroll tax, or IRS, and you really will be able drop out of contributing to government waste if you want. But, it can only happen if YOU get involved.
“Why me?” you ask? Because the Founding Fathers put you in charge. They went through a lot to set up this great country for you and I. Plus, through the years, 1.1 million have given their lives for you and I to be free, if you want to be free. Don’t let future generations of Americans down.
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Check out this short video (2 minutes) from Rep. Linder. It does a great job of explaining the Bill (HR 25/S 25). It's on his campaign site, but you won't be inundated with ads or anything: http://www.johnlinder.com/IssueDetails.asp?IssueID=9
Check out this short video (2 minutes) from Rep. Linder. It does a great job of explaining the Bill (HR 25/S 25). It's on his campaign site, but you won't be inundated with ads or anything: http://www.johnlinder.com/IssueDetails.asp?IssueID=9•Call your local radio shows; tell them you want to hear about the FairTax. Kevin Whitt, the FairTax ‘splainer’ man, does a great job on the air, and in front of groups: call 386-785-0436, or email marshacat80@yahoo.com.
Call your local radio shows; tell them you want to hear about the FairTax. Kevin Whitt, the FairTax ‘splainer’ man, does a great job on the air, and in front of groups: call 386-785-0436, or email marshacat80@yahoo.com.•www.FairTaxGroups.com – check posts and calendar to find groups where you can learn more and get involved. If you can’t find one in your area, start one.
www.FairTaxGroups.com – check posts and calendar to find groups where you can learn more and get involved. If you can’t find one in your area, start one.•http://www.gafairtax.org/resrcs/Petition.pdf – print a petition, send it to us when full (we will share it with FairTax.org and the politicians: 1433 N. Garfield Ave., Deland, FL 32724).
http://www.gafairtax.org/resrcs/Petition.pdf – print a petition, send it to us when full (we will share it with FairTax.org and the politicians: 1433 N. Garfield Ave., Deland, FL 32724).•http://www.4shared.com/dir/487057/ab04c1cf/sharing.html – download postcards and flyers to give to people.
http://www.4shared.com/dir/487057/ab04c1cf/sharing.html – download postcards and flyers to give to people.Get on Board!
Article will appear in the October 2006 Issue of Dixie Biker Illustrated.
