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The FAIRtax Guys discuss the many problems with the current federal income tax and the solution to all those problems, the FAIRtax.

July 4, 2026 will mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. That mighty document ended up freeing the American colonist...

If you need a vehicle to haul heavy equipment around, you don’t buy a Ferrari. If you want a tax system that’s simple, fair and efficient, y...

What should an ideal tax system look like? There are some common sense characteristics of a good tax system that transcend partisan differen...

One of best selling author John Gaver’s 22 goals for tax reform is that an ideal tax system should be hard to evade. Another is that a good...

Best selling author John Gaver has written extensively about tax reform. He has developed a set of 22 goals that a superior tax reform propo...

There’s no shortage of people who either don’t understand the FAIRtax or who have a vested interest in keeping the income tax and will disho...

You have questions. The FAIRtax Guys have answers. Or more specifically, Neal Boortz and John Linder anticipated many of the questions and o...

If the FAIRtax is such a great idea, why hasn’t it been tried somewhere already? Get the answer to that questions and several others as the...

Some questions and objections raised against the FAIRtax are honest. Some are not. In either case, FAIRtax advocates need to know how to ans...

When Boortz and Linder wrote their first FAIRtax book back in 2005, they knew that people would have questions about it. They also knew that...

With election season for the midterms heating up, it’s important for voters to know where the candidates stand on important issues like tax...

If you think that the sales tax that’s shown on your receipt is the only tax you’re paying on a retail transaction, you are sadly mistaken....

Americans For Fair Taxation is grooming the next generation of leaders to carry on the mission of replacing the federal income tax with the...

You could not start with a blank sheet of paper and design a worse tax system than we have in the federal income tax. It’s the most fraud pr...

A list of everything that’s wrong with the federal income tax system would stretch to the moon and back. There is no doubt that the system i...

The income tax system is hopelessly broken. That’s a fact that far too few Americans realize, but it’s true nonetheless. This week, the FAIR...

As the calendar rolls over to 2026, the FAIRtax community has a lot to look forward to. This week the FAIRtax Guys welcome Steve Hayes, pres...

Every week the FAIRtax Guys look at congress.gov to see what kind of changes to the tax code are being proposed in Congress. Some are sensib...

The first step in getting the FAIRtax passed will be to convince enough people that the income tax system is broken beyond repair and the on...

Most people believe that the “tax owed” line on their income tax return is an accurate measure of how much the federal income tax system cos...

The recent government shutdown was longer and costlier than anyone would have liked. Federal employees went without paychecks. Vital service...

FAIRtax Power Radio began nearly ten years ago as a weekly radio program on Leading Edge Radio Network. Over the years, it has evolved into...

Mark Gupton was a giant in the FAIRtax movement. He is a major reason why the Florida FAIRtax Educational Association is as large, as succes...

In 2021, the FAIRtax Guys had the opportunity to present the FAIRtax to a group of political candidates at a candidate workshop in Las Vegas...

William Occam was a 14th century philosopher and theologian. He developed a principle which came to be known as Occam’s Razor. It held that...

The people we elect to represent us in Congress are supposed to do just that—act in our best interests. Unfortunately, the cost of running f...

On October 19, the FAIRtax Guys did their annual live program from the studios of WTOB Radio in Winston-Salem, NC. See how it all went down...

In spite of all the positives associated with replacing the income tax with the FAIRtax, skepticism about the FAIRtax, often fueled by misin...

Once again, the FAIRtax Guys turn to artificial intelligence, but this time with a twist. Instead of just having AI find and organize inform...

The FAIRtax truly has something for everyone to like. Last week, the FAIRtax Guys demonstrated how the FAIRtax appeals to people with differ...

You’d never know it listening to the partisan rhetoric, but the FAIRtax has always been an apolitical proposal. It never has been and never...

Every week, the FAIRtax Guys look at congress.gov to see what kind of crazy things the Congress Critters are trying to put into the tax code...

There is a myth circulating about the FAIRtax that just refuses to die. You see it all over social media and even some artificial intelligen...

There seems to be a trend brewing, largely in the Southeast. State after state has announced its intention to eliminate their state income t...

President Trump continues to double down on tariffs as a way to raise revenue for the federal government. While the President has enjoyed so...

Last week, the FAIRtax Guys explained why putting exemptions into the FAIRtax for necessities like food and medicine is a bad idea. This wee...

Some people who are concerned about the regressivity of a consumption tax like the FAIRtax have suggested that the FAIRtax should contain ex...

The Tax Foundation is an international research think tank based in Washington, D.C. that collects data and publishes research studies on U....

A recent poll showed that most people across the entire political spectrum support the idea of replacing the income tax with a different sys...

What happens when you ask an artificial intelligence application to evaluate the FAIRtax? Of course, it depends on which application you use...

President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill has been signed into law a lot faster than a lot of people expected. This week, the FAIRtax Guys welcom...

FAIRtax advocates continue to be active across several social media platforms. As you might imagine, the idea of replacing the income tax wi...

The recent poll about people’s opinion on replacing the income tax with a national retail sales tax has a rather surprising result. Only 49%...

President Trump made a really interesting pick when he selected former Missouri Representative Billy Long to be the new IRS commissioner. Wh...

Over the past several election cycles, the polling industry as a whole has struggled to accurately measure real public opinion. However, one...

Taxing income and taxing consumption are two radically different ways to raise funds for the government. But which is better? There is nearl...

The number of cosponsors a particular piece of legislation has can be an indicator of how much support the measure has in Congress. To that...

President Trump is pushing for passage of what he calls his “Big, Beautiful Bill”. It contains a variety of tax proposals that the President...

The United States is one of only two countries in the word that extends its income tax to its citizens living outside the country. That’s tr...

Believing a myth can be harmless, or it can have rather serious consequences. The income tax code is so complicated and incomprehensible, it...