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The Fair Tax Book : Saying Goodbye to the Income Tax and the IRS :: 0060875496
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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. 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. Editorial Descriptions are usually submitted by the manufacturers, publishers and authors. Contact us if you are one of them, and wish to change the above description. |
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Author: Guest
The past 5 years have been right out of the twilight zone. It seems that the conservatives and independents are the ones that want to change things and the "liberal" would rather keep things the same. From tax reform, to immigration, Social Security, etc. Even if you disagree with the argument of a fair tax you liberals seem to get on topics like this and go CRAZY with the negative. Pick the book up and read it, remember that you the liberals by definition should want change and outside thinking.
Liberal by definition-Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.
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Author: Guest
I'm none too fond of people who want other people's money. What a sorry existence, always envious and plotting to use the government as your partner in the heist of people who have used a little brain power and a lot of elbow grease to acheive the American dream. Heaven forbid Americans get to keep the money they earn. I'm not anywhere close to being rich, but I will be one day. So I'm essentially mad at all you redistributionist slugs for trying to steal money I haven't even earned yet. If you'd spend half the energy you do protesting on your own personal growth and ways to improve your position, then you might be on the other side one day too. Oh yeah, I support the Fair Tax and this book too.
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Author: Guest
Same old diatribe.
Cure-all to government spending!? NOPE...
But HR 25 is a great wasted opportunity.
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Author: Guest
Author Boortz is out hyping the national sales tax; yet, he knows NOTHING about its ultimate effects. There is dangerous hypocrisy in his falsely proclaimed knowledge about that and his push for it...
And then, there's the global warming topic he repeatedly bashes on his Fair Tax Radio Show, repeatedly pining that it's all "uh FIG-ment uv ur imaji-NA-shun..."
He's full of sh!& on BOTH issues.
Global warming is unabashedly real, but Boortz sticks his head in the sand.
The national sales tax will KILL the economy, but he sticks his head in the sand...
Here's the latest proof that his ignorance is dangerous on every topic he purports to be an expert at...oops, I forgot...he's an "en-ter-TAIN-errr...:
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Experts: Global warming behind 2005 hurricanes
Tuesday, April 25, 2006; Posted: 10:26 a.m. EDT (14:26 GMT)
Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest Atlantic hurricane in 77 years.
SPECIAL REPORT
MONTEREY, California (Reuters) -- The record Atlantic hurricane season last year can be attributed to global warming, several top experts, including a leading U.S. government storm researcher, said on Monday.
"The hurricanes we are seeing are indeed a direct result of climate change and it's no longer something we'll see in the future, it's happening now," said Greg Holland, a division director at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
Holland told a packed hall at the American Meteorological Society's 27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology that the wind and warmer water conditions that fuel storms that form in the Caribbean are "increasingly due to greenhouse gases. There seems to be no other conclusion you can logically draw."
His conclusion will be debated throughout the week-long conference, as other researchers present opposing papers that say changing wind and temperature conditions in the tropics are due to natural events, not the accumulation of carbon dioxide emissions clouding the Earth.
Many of the experts gathered in the coastal city of Monterey, California, are federal employees. The Bush administration contends global warming is an unproven theory.
While many of the conference's 500 scientists seem to agree that a warming trend in the tropics is causing more and stronger hurricanes than usual, not all agree that global warming is to blame.
Some, like William Gray, a veteran hurricane researcher at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, attributed the warming to natural cycles.
Gray said he believes salinity buildups and movements with ocean currents cause warming and cooling cycles. He predicted the Caribbean water will continue to warm for another five to 10 years, then start cooling.
More warming to come
Whatever the cause, computer projections indicate the warming to date -- about one degree Fahrenheit (half a degree Celsius) in tropical water -- is "the tip of the iceberg" and the water will warm three to four times as much in the next century, said Thomas Knutson, explaining projections from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey.
Adam Lea, a postdoctoral student at Britain's University College London in Dorking, Surrey, presented research based on British, German, Russian and Canadian studies that concludes half of the increased hurricane activity in the tropics could be attributed to global warming.
Holland, director of the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division of the federal research center, said tropical storm anomalies in the 1940s and 1950s can be explained by natural variability.
But he said carbon dioxide started changing traceable patterns in the 1970s and by the early 1990s, the atmospheric results were affecting the storm numbers and intensities.
"What we're seeing right now in global climate temperature is a signature of climate change," said Holland, a native of Australia. "The large bulk of the scientific community say what we are seeing now is linked directly to greenhouse gases."
Hurricane Katrina, which tore onto the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts on August 29, was the deadliest Atlantic hurricane in 77 years and the costliest ever, with property damages estimated at $75 billion.
This year, the weather service's Tropical Prediction Center expects more hurricanes than usual, but not as many as last year's record 14.
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Author: Guest
This is a great discussion and a great read. However, I'm very frustrated with the eBooks DRM (Digital Rights Management) which prevents more then 7 pages a week to be printed. Neal Boortz even recommends that when you finish reading the book you should leave a copy at the airport or leave it for a friend to discover. Restricting the usage of something I paid for flies in the face of Libertarianism and in this instance it contradicts what the author (Neal Boortz) even recommends (to some degree). I just wanted to be able to read it on paper once in a while rather then be limited to just a PDA or computer screen. How disappointing.
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