Fair Tax Leadership

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Comment by Adrian B Early on December 14, 2009 at 6:58pm

Gerald,
I very much like your goal (and means, through small businesses) for expanding Fair Tax "branding" and share of mind. Fair Tax is the solution for so much of what has degraded from government intrusion on American Liberty.
-ABE

Comment by Adrian B Early on December 14, 2009 at 6:42pm

Medicare expansion to age 55 up (& Medicaid following this)
= Public Option for age 55 up.
Maybe we will soon get Medicaid & Medicare cradle to grave. Another path to a government insurance monopoly. Isn't that special? Present politicians would like this power.

Where is "Pro Choice" control or over "our own bodies" related to health providers and insurance?
All Americans could (I think) support poor people spending the prebate on health insurance if they want to (and the Fair Tax enables this better than government spending). See also http://www.fairtax.org/site/DocServer/TopTenReasonsWhyDemocratsShouldStronglySupporttheFairTax.pdf?docID=581 linked from Kerry's link below at http://www.fairtax.org/site/Clubs?club_id=1180&pg=main

-ABE

Comment by Gerald Nielsen on December 13, 2009 at 9:25pm

One of our business supporters had a great idea and e-mailed it to Neal Boortz but I think the rest of us could spread the word also.
"Neal, I am one of the Fairtax organizers in Eau Claire , WI . I have a promotional idea that costs $0 which will only work with your help. If you could suggest to Fairtax-supporting local business owners around the country to include the Fairtax logo or sound bite in their ads, our exposure would grow exponentially. In many of my radio ads, I include a 2 second sound byte at the end that says "We support the Fairtax." A small logo in newspaper ads, internet etc would also work. It costs zero additional dollars for advertisers to include it, and could supplant millions of advertising dollars used for fundamental exposure. Getting the general population to first just hear of the Fairtax has helped tremendously, at least here. We proudly do most organization from ground up and hate to bug you, but I think the Fairtax would be enormously re-energized if this were to take hold!



Thank you,



Nate Moquin"

Comment by Kerry D. Bowers on December 12, 2009 at 7:05pm

You are invited to view a new document from the Florida FairTax Educational Association's Panhandle District entitled "An Illustrated Guide To Understanding the FairTax". The document, in PDF and MS Word and with additional standalone MS Power Point Slides, can be accessed through the district website at www.fairtax.org/florida-panhandle. On opening the home page, scroll down to the red-lettered title "FairTax Presentation and Training Programs" and then under the subtitle "Training Guides and Slide Presentations", in the blue graphics boxes you will find the Illustrated guide in the various formats. You are free to use the materials from the guides or the slides as you desire to construct your own FairTax presentation and training programs.

Best Regards,
Kerry Bowers
Panhandle Co-District Director
Florida FairTax Educational Association

Comment by Rabbi DF Eukel on December 9, 2009 at 6:25pm

Shalom, y'all. You are invited to listen & participate in a new regular Friday feature of "Ramble & Rumble with Rabbi" the Internet talk radio broadcast Mon-Fri hosted by Rabbi DF Eukel, the radio rabbi. "FairTax Friday Fellowship" will air each Friday beginning Friday December 18 @ 6:30AM CST. See our face book (Df Eukel) events for more detail, our web site www.EUKEL.us and our radio link http://www.blogtalkradio.com/RabbiEukel. We are open to suggested Special Guests. Simply email EUKEL@EUKEL.us with contact information. "FairTax Friday Fellowship" a live round table discussion of FairTaxers across the nation encouraging, educating and energizing. Come on, get your coffee & courage and join the community conversation. Rabbi Df Eukel

Comment by Adrian B Early on December 9, 2009 at 6:11pm

The other "currency" of interest is lobbyist dollars and their other forms of influence. Plus other cronies with political leaders (having access to taxpayer treasure - spending side - and influence over the tax code - revenue side also with strong influence on the economy and the pocketbooks of said political cronies).
-ABE

Comment by Adrian B Early on December 9, 2009 at 4:54pm

Q: What currency do consumers have in greater abundance than "rich" entrepreneurs (Capitalists) that drive the Capitalist economy?

A: Votes.

Is this why we tax business and labor (producers) not consumption?

The fundamental problem or danger with Democracy is that the majority can decide (and vote) to oppress the minority. We need constitutional limits. And those now in power despise the Constitution.

-ABE

Comment by Adrian B Early on December 9, 2009 at 3:16pm

I recently wrote this to a colleague:

Note this statement about investing in India http://www.fool.com/investing/international/2009/12/09/read-this-before-you-buy-india.aspx.

The secret to investing in India
After laying all that out, Shah shared his secret to making money in India: Bet on the business, and bet on the people. India is a "rising tide," he said. "Back the right entrepreneur, and you always make money."

Always? We pressed him on this point. He replied that if your Indian investments are in entrepreneurs and companies whose business skills and quality are beyond doubt, then yes, over the long term, you will always make money. "Some will move first and some later," he said, "but all will move." That's the power of investing in an economy with as much potential as India's, and that's the philosophy under which the $20 billion Shah is managing is being put to work.

Is this not the case anywhere and at any time? Does the US value the entrepreneur? Or are we succumbing to Schumpeter's fear (In Can Capitalism Survive?) for the capitalist system (here)? That problem is loathing for the (rich) entrepreneur, or considering them irrelevant. If Capitalism falters here, it will arise elsewhere.

The Fair Tax benefits producers. The income tax and business taxes benefit consumers. Which do we want more? It is very much like valuing or loathing (rich) entrepreneurs.

-ABE

Comment by Steve Curtis on December 5, 2009 at 1:12pm

We are working on our FairTax Newsletter, and would like to include some humor. I am looking for people with some cartooning experience who would like to contribute. If you'd like to develop FairTax-themed cartoons, and have them published in our Newsletter, let me know either on this site, or directly at s.curtis@ohfairtax.org

Comment by Adrian B Early on November 16, 2009 at 1:20pm

Reading further in Schumpeter's short (about 100 page) book, Can Capitalism Survive?, he invokes even the very Communist Manifesto:

"The last candidate is technological progress. Was not the observed performance due to that stream of inventions that revolutionized the technique of production rather than to the businessman's hunt for profits? The answer is in the negative. The carrying into effect of those technological novelties was of the essence of that hunt. And even the inventing itself, as will be more fully explained in a moment, was a function of the capitalist process which is responsible for the mental habits that will produce invention. It is therefore quite wrong - and also quite un-Marxian - to say, as so many economists do, that capitalist enterprise was one, and technological progress a second, distinct factor in the observed development of output; they were essentially one and the same thing or, as we may also put it, the former was the propelling force of the latter."

(Bold emphasis mine)

-ABE

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