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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  knipfty | Mar 31, 2009 |  Interesting idea. Would it work? Boortz comes over as a wingnut, which doesn't help his credibility. A well-reasoned, tone-neutral approach would, I think, be more likely to sway the public. Righteous indignation never won me over. (  ) horacewimsey | Jan 15, 2009 | Awesome, go read if you have interest in anything. Vote for it, write your senator, congressman/woman, rally for it, whatev. (  ) garcher84 | May 12, 2008 | I picked this book up because I heard Mike Huckabee ranting and raving about it on tv, even though I hate Huckabee, it sounded like a good read and an interesting idea. I read it and re-read it and it's really an amazing tax concept. Thankfully, it's picking up steam around America right now...almost anything would be better than our current tax system but this plan is being approved by major economists all over the country and it makes sense as to why. As for the writing, it gets a little redundant, especially towards the end but the knowledge to gain from it (and the sense of humor put into it) makes the book a worthwhile read. (  ) earthcrosser75 | Feb 6, 2008 | This is a pretty interesting read. It gets rather redundant towards the end, it almost feels like the author is trying to pound their message into you. (  ) Sigualicious | Aug 31, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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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 on new goods and services. This dramatic revision of the current system, which would eliminate the reviled IRS, has already caught fire in the American heartland, with more than six hundred thousand 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. Among other benefits, it will:
Make America's tax code truly voluntary, without reducing revenue Replace today's indecipherable tax code with one simple sales tax Protect lower-income Americans by covering the tax on basic necessities Eliminate billions of dollars in embedded taxes we don't even know we're paying Bring offshore corporate dollars back into the U.S. economyEndorsed by scores of leading economists and supported by a huge and growing grassroots movement, the FairTax Plan could revolutionize the way America pays for itself. In this straight-talking book, Neal Boortz and John Linder show you how it would workâand how you can help make it happen.
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Here you have a tax proposal that not only simplifies the tax code, but could actually make the USA the number location for manufacturing. Gets rid of all payroll, income taxes, and inheritance, and replaces with a simple national sales tax. This proposal would also completely untax the poor by providing a prebate on all taxes for spending up to the poverty level of each household.
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