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Fair Tax Book

June 21st, 2005

Neal Boortz and John Linder have finished The Fair Tax Book. From the Amazon book description

Wouldn’t you love to abolish the IRS . . . Keep all the money in your paycheck . . . Pay taxes on what you spend, not what you earn . . . And eliminate all the fraud, hassle, and waste of our current system?

Then the FairTax is for you. In the face of the outlandish American tax burden, talk-radio firebrand Neal Boortz and Congressman John Linder are leading the charge to phase out our current, unfair system and enact the FairTax Plan — replacing the federal income tax and withholding system with a simple 23 percent retail sales tax. This dramatic revision of the current system, which would eliminate the reviled IRS, has already caught fire in the American heartland, with more than 600,000 taxpayers signing on in support of the plan.

As Boortz and Linder reveal in this first book on the FairTax, this radical but eminently sensible plan would end the annual national nightmare of filing income tax returns, while at the same time enlarging the federal tax base by collecting sales tax from every retail consumer in the country. The FairTax, they argue, would transform the fearsome bureaucracy of the IRS into a more transparent, accountable — and equitable — tax collection system. Endorsed by scores of leading economists — and supported by a huge and growing grassroots movement — the Fair Tax Plan could revolutionize the way America pays for itself.

The United States tax system is out of control. The FairTax is one workable solution to the nightmare of dealing with April 15th in this country.

Buy at Amazon or Books-a-Million.

More online resources at Americans for Fair Tax, Rep. Linder’s FairTax information here and here, the actual bill summary and status, and the April 15, 2005 entry at Nealz Nuze.

Entry Filed under: House of Representatives, Politics, Taxes