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As many of you have know, I'm a very strong advocate of the Fairtax bill.  I believe that it is a fair, balanced, effective alternative to our current Federal income tax system.  The most recent update in my e-mail featured an editorial crediting the Scientologists with the Fairtax.  Sheesh!  Those who profit off of the current draconion tax system will stop at nothing to discredit any alternatives.   Here's the rebuttal from the founder of Americans for Fair Taxation: Link here

 It is apparently getting so difficult to defend the current income tax system that its guardians must use smear tactics to slow down its best replacement. Bruce Bartlett ("FairTax, Flawed Tax," editorial page, Aug. 25) is the latest status quo defender to use fiction to slander the FairTax plan.

The FairTax was developed many years ago, totally independently of any other proposal, group or movement. It is a product of more than $20 million of advanced economic research, as well as detailed conversations with citizens as to their preferences defining the best possible national tax system. Many groups and individuals have agitated to replace the deeply flawed income tax system, including, apparently, the Church of Scientology. As a founder of Americans For Fair Taxation, I can state categorically, however, that Scientology played no role in the founding, research or crafting of the legislation giving expression to the FairTax.

Mr. Bartlett is equally wrong about many other aspects of the FairTax. We are disappointed but hardly surprised by such distortions about it coming from the very economist who once opined that the income tax system just needed a little "tweaking."

Leo Linbeck
Chairman and CEO
Americans for Fair Taxation
Houston
Imagine a world where all of our homeschooling supplies were purchased with before tax dollars.  How about a world where the government doesn't know where you work, how much money you earn or how you spend it??  How about a world where those who make less then the poverty level pay no taxes, not even social security but where the wealthy can no longer avoid taxes by depositing their money in foreign countries.  Would you like to see manufacturing jobs move back to the USA?  This will remove the tax benefits of overseas manufacturing for corporations.  These things and more are benefits of the fairtax proposal.  I encourage everyone to check it out.  Once you've read the proposal you'll likely join me in advocating this change!