1Declaration: Free Markets, Free People, Free Minds

May you all have a very Merry and Blessed Christmas! Please keep the troops overseas in your prayers. May they come home safely and without haste. Finally, let us not forget those that have made the ultimate sacrifice and the families they have left behind.

In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to his own town to register.

So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger."

Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,
"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests." (KJV)

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: (KJV)

Are you:

• Tired of being penalized for working hard, taking 2 jobs to support your family and then being told that because you now earn more you have to pay more in taxes when you are struggling to make ends meat?
  
• Frustrated that you try to save or invest for college, for retirement, or for a day when you may lose your job and then you are penalized with a capital gains tax for your sound financial decisions?
  
• Annoyed that corporations keep moving their jobs overseas?
• Bothered by the recent economic downturn and the government just puts a band aid on a problem that requires surgery?
• Disgusted with politicians who like to spew class warfare rhetoric and then wonder why the nation is divided?
• Tired of not receiving your entire paycheck to decide where your money should go and how much of it?
• Fed up with the IRS, filing income taxes, and spending valuable time and money to make sure your taxes are right and then being audited to be told you miscalculated your taxes by a dime and be assessed a severe penalty?
• Disgusted that the government can view your private financial documents on a whim?
  

Dear President Elect Obama,

During your campaign cycle you continuously stated that you would bring change to Washington. As your administration takes the reigns from the Bush administration you will be forced to deal with a declining economy and a shrinking job market. I am one of those in the job hunt myself. To remedy these problems will require clear thinking, decisive action, and a new bold direction that will make America a haven for unprecedented economic growth, job creation, and a rational tax policy. For these reasons I hope you will give proper, careful, and at length consideration to the FairTax, which will be a true agent of change for every American, the American economic system, and restore a sound, fair, and transparent taxation system to our great Nation.

The income tax system no matter the changes that have been or will potentially be made to it will ensure unequal treatment of Americans and will act as an inhibitor of economic/job growth. Not to mention that an income tax system by definition penalizes and gives disincentives towards hard work, high achievement, savings for retirement, education, or for a rainy day, investment, and capital formation.

The FairTax resolves many of the underlying problems that led to the economic problems we are currently facing by rewarding saving, investment, and sound financial endeavors. Aside from the fact that every American would have more money in their pocket to reduce personal debt because they are able to keep their entire paycheck. This would allow financial institutions to acquire capital rapidly thus easing problems with lending and making credit more abundant.

The FairTax aside from remedying the economically stagnating income tax system and penalization for achievement and savings helps remedy other problems such as saving for retirement, an insolvent Social Security system, a greatly indebted Medicare/Medicaid systems, eliminating a wasteful and inefficient federal agency (the IRS), and restoring American protections to security in papers and the restoration of the prohibition of direct taxation that were removed with the passage of the 16th Amendment.

The FairTax has so many benefits that it is impossible to present them all to you with much brevity so I will conclude.

The FairTax is the kind of change America desperately needs and millions of Americans will be looking toward you to usher in after your campaign. It is time to bring a transparent, simple, fair, and economically favorable tax system to America. I look forward to the day when you bring forth true change and embrace the FairTax.

In Liberty,

[--skeiser--]

Take Action and Learn More

Take the time to write your own and demand that he live up to his campaign promise that he will bring forth change. You can write your own letter at FairTax.org.

Want more information on the FairTax? Check out FairTax.org or check out the books written by Neal Boortz and John Linder: The FairTax Book: Saying Goodbye to the Income Tax and the IRS or FairTax: The Truth: Answering the Critics.

"A great article on the importance of the Fair Tax."

Sunday, November 16, 2008
By: Augusta Chronicle Editorial Staff

Hopefully election results won't kill national sales tax movement

Democrats have won both the executive and legislative branches of government. They will pursue a vastly different national agenda in the next four years.

Sadly, that risks putting several important agenda items on the back burner. One of them is the Fair Tax.

A proposed 23-cent national sales tax, the Fair Tax would replace the current federal system of taxation -- meaning no income tax and no Social Security tax.

That means power to the people, because, first of all, they get their entire paycheck. Secondly, they determine the amount of tax they pay by the decisions they make on their purchases.

The Fair Tax also contains a feature called a "prebate" -- money that would wipe out federal taxes completely for those at or below the poverty line.

Ironically, even as Democrats who have not quite warmed up to the idea are set to take control of both Congress and the White House, a new benefit of the Fair Tax has arrived: If taxpayers received more of their paycheck in take-home pay, they would be more equipped to make their mortgage payments. So perhaps fewer Americans would be losing their homes to foreclosure.

That's just one example of what the Fair Tax could do by empowering people to have more control over more of their money.

And just imagine how much more luminous and fragrant the spring would be if you didn't have wrestle the IRS every April! And guess what that wrestling match costs Americans every year: $265 billion in tax preparation costs.

That alone is cause for dumping tea in Boston Harbor.

It's too bad that some have demagogued the Fair Tax, especially at election time. It's not a tax increase; it's tax reform of the best kind, because it shifts power from Washington to the people.

The Fair Tax is so-called because it brings the underground economy into the light, and closes the many loopholes the powerful exploit to avoid taxation. Moreover, experts predict it will prompt offshore assets to flow back to the United States. Why? Because they would no longer need to hide from the long nose of the IRS.

Philosophically it's a winner, too, because it shifts taxation from industriousness and production to consumption. Such a reward of hard work and investment would be just the thing a struggling economy such as ours could really use.

Talk about a stimulus package! And this stimulus wouldn't cost money.

It's an awful shame that such a partisan shroud has fallen down around the Fair Tax. On Nov. 16, at the Gwinnett Center in Duluth, there will be a Fair Tax "Truth" rally to clear up some of the lies and distortions about the Fair Tax featuring GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, nationally syndicated radio host Neil Boortz and U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss as guest speakers, among others.

This isn't a Republican or Democratic idea. Fact is, it's a grass-roots movement that has been catching steam in recent years. What a tragedy it would be if Nov. 4 were to sap the energy out of the movement.

We can't let that happen, and certainly not now. The Fair Tax has too much potential to lift the economy out of the doldrums, stimulate manufacturing and labor, and keep people in their homes.

Neither is this a matter of impulsiveness. The Fair Tax has been debated, researched and vetted by prominent and knowledgeable economists, business people and other leaders. It's a system that would work, because it would once again allow American wage earners to keep what they earn and spend it as they see fit.

That's smart. That leads to prosperity.

And it's the definition of fair.

Original piece posted at http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/111608/edi_483652.shtml