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New Ad Touts New Alternative Retail Sales Tax

March 9th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Only two weeks after they began running ads about the Fair Tax serving as “jumper cables” for the economy, the folks at FairTax.org announced this morning another full-page ad promoting the national retail sales tax that is proposed as a healthy alternative to the income tax system.
The text of the full page ad, running in [...]

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Fair Tax Offers ‘Jumper Cables’ for Economy

February 23rd, 2009 · 3 Comments

FairTax.org, the grassroots campaign to replace the income tax with a national retail sales tax, announced in a news release they are running full-page ads (pdf) in papers across the country praising the FairTax as “The World’s Biggest Economic Jumper Cables.” today that they have begun running.
Ads will run this week in the Los Angeles [...]

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Video Compares Flat, National Sales Tax

April 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

On the heels of the tragedy that takes place ever year in the form of tax deadline day, I was pleased to come across the video below. In it, Dan Mitchell of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation explains how the current tax system is deeply flawed and argues, with a few caveats, [...]

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Highlights of Florida GOP Debate Offered

January 24th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Five Republican candidates participated in the GOP Candidates Debate in Florida tonight. Rather than rehash everything covered during the 90-minute event held on the campus of Florida Atlantic University campus in Boca Raton, I’ll offer a handful of highlights:
The biggest buffoon of the night was MSNBC’s Tim Russert. Based on the tone and [...]

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New Hampshire GOP Presidential Forum Notes

January 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Tonight’s New Hampshire Republican Presidential Forum on the Fox News Channel began this way:
“One of the five men sitting at this table tonight will be the Republican presidential nominee.”
Those words, used by Fox News moderator Chris Wallace to open the forum at Saint Anselm College, must have riled supporters of Ron Paul and Duncan Hunter [...]

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