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. economy

Endorsed 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 work—and how you can help make it happen.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.0 based on 1547 reviews)

THE IMP OF CONGRESS

The passage of a fair tax as explained by Boortz and Linder depends on Congress keeping it free of exemptions to it. I would not plan on the Congress doing so. There would be too much money available for Congressmen if they gave exemptions to selected industries, agencies and individuals. I doubt that they could resist the temptation. I would have to see it before I would believe it. However, I want to say that, if a Fair Tax law would be enacted, even if it ends up costing me more than I pay with the IRS Tax Code, I would want it because I would be rid of the IRS and an accountant. (He is a great guy, but he could do other things than taxes.) I would advise Boortz and Linder that they would have to organize a grassroots campaign to get a Fair Tax passed. Good Luck!
December 26, 2008

An Easy Read. Do it. Don't take anybody else's word for it.

Who would have thought a book about taxes would actually be easy to read? I suppose that underscores the simplicity of the consumption (as opposed to our current production) tax. Although, just once, won't someone write about economics without employing the venerable widget?

The plan makes sense which may be it's downfall, unless enough citizens demand it. Politicians aren't simply going to surrender their power back to us unless we make them. It's what is making them rich.

The current system breeds corruption and we all act surprised when congressmen are caught with $90,000 cash in their freezer or when governors are auctioning senate seats to the highest bidder. I have no delusion that the FairTax will eliminate all political corruption but it will help enormously. Politicians will have less to sell when they can no longer manipulate our convoluted tax code. This corruption is a fire that needs to be starved of oxygen. Yet another ethics bill squirt gun won't do a thing.

More importantly, the FairTax rewards hard work, savings and wise spending while the current tax code does exactly the opposite.

December 19, 2008

EASY TO READ

This is the first time I've ever left a review. I've just got to offset some of those one star reviews since I'm sure that only 23 percent of the people who gave it one star actually read the book. By the way, I am talking about an inclusive 23 percent. I think this book should get at least 3 stars even from opponents of the fairtax. It's one of the easiest books to read. It's entertaining, funny, and just informative even to the person who hates good ideas.

Get the book and call your congressman.

Also, I have a recommendation for anyone who liked this book: Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson. You can throw that in your cart too since, if you're anything like me, you're trying to get to $25 for free shipping.

November 25, 2008

The Best Thinking on the American Scene

The Fair Tax is a profound concept to fully fund the federal government without confiscating personal and business property - taxing income. An embedded national sales tax replaces all federal taxes on income - even those income taxes by another name (payroll taxes, capital gains, etc.) Getting one's head around an income-tax-free United States isn't always easy. Fortunatley Boortz and company present the logic, the common sense, the incredible personal, social, national, and economic benefits of the Fair Tax in clear, concise, and fun reading. An IRS free U.S.? This is how.
November 24, 2008

Misses the point

Taxation is Theft whether it is the current system or through universal sales tax. It is taking money, taking the product and hours of your life, by force by the government to be used for whatever the government wishes. It is utterly and completely immoral and unconscionable. So I consider it no great improvement to more efficiently enslave all of us.
November 24, 2008

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