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Collecting the taxes needed to keep the government running should not be a partisan process. Unfortunately, neither the politicians nor the IRS got the memo. Using the IRS as a political weapon dates back decades, but now there’s a new wrinkle. The IRS itself is now resisting Congressional oversight, and Congress is divided along party lines over how best to administer that oversight. Passing the FAIRtax won’t eliminate the bitter partisan divide that exists in today’s Washington DC, but it will take the politics out of tax collection. It will also abolish the IRS forever.

Earlier this year, it was reported that the IRS destroyed over 30 million tax documents. As you might imagine, there is more than just casual curiosity among some Members of Congress about what really happened and why. It should be no surprise that the IRS has ignored repeated requests for data about the incident, and now, other Congressmen are trying to block any further inquiry into the matter. It’s a tangled mess, and it’s just one more reason why the income tax should be replaced by the FAIRtax and the IRS should be put out of business.

The Justice Department has charged five current and former IRS employees with stealing COVID relief money and using it to make lavish personal purchases—including a new Mercedes and trips to Las Vegas. Of course, this is just one of multiplied thousands of cases where crooks, fraudsters and criminals exploit the fact that the IRS is woefully incapable of preventing these thieves from ripping all of us off. It’s a system that should have been put out of business decades ago. It’s yet another reason why we MUST replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS forever.

Logic and common sense tell you that if you are cooperative and try to do the right thing in your dealings with a government authority, that authority should work with you in the same spirit. Unfortunately, the IRS didn’t get the memo. This week, the FAIRtax Guys look at a story first told by Jim Bennett in his weekly “Grassroots Corner” article. It’s the story of Alexandru Bittner, an American citizen who ran afoul of the American tax code while living in Romania. The treatment he received at the hands of the IRS is nothing short of appalling. It’s just one more reason why the FAIRtax should replace the income tax and relegate the IRS to permanent extinction.

The FAIRtax Guys welcome CPA Jade Walle to their annual live program from the studios of WTOB in Winston Salem, NC. Doing a live show gives the Guys the chance to do something they don’t normally get to do—answer live calls from listeners. Jade fields a question from a listener who was concerned that by taxing consumption rather than income, the FAIRtax would hurt the poor. Next, they tackle the non-partisan nature of the FAIRtax and explain why people of all different political ideologies would like and should support the FAIRtax.

We continue to see fallout from the massive increase in the size of the IRS contained in the Inflation Reduction Act. This week, after their usual look at congress.gov, the FAIRtax Guys touch on several little tidbits, including a new bill in Congress called the IRS Reduction Act. If passed, the IRS Reduction Act would rescind the additional funding for the IRS that’s contained in the Inflation Reduction Act. We have a better idea. How about the IRS Elimination Act—theFAIRtax.

Would the IRS really go after an 82-year-old grandmother who made an honest mistake on her taxes and voluntarily tried to correct it? You bet they would—and they did. Would the IRS really publish people’s personal, confidential data on their web site? Again, you better believe they would. This week, the FAIRtax Guys uncover more unbelievable abuses that the IRS has perpetrated against honest taxpayers. And it’s only going to get worse when the army of new IRS agents authorized under the Inflation Reduction Act are turned loose. There’s only one way to stop this. Pass the FAIRtax and put the IRS out of business.

Marissa Selvig was the first candidate in the entire country to sign the FAIRtax Candidate Pledge for the 2022 election. She is the Constitution Party’s candidate for Congress in the state of Wyoming. This week, Marissa makes her second appearance on FAIRtax Power Radio. She offers some insight on exactly what’s contained in the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act, and shares her perspective on how the FAIRtax message of eliminating the IRS is resonating with voters now that 87,000 new IRS agents will be unleashed on American taxpayers.

The IRS is getting bigger, more powerful, and it could be coming after you. In spite of the politicians’ pledges that the new IRS will only target well-heeled tax cheats, history and plain common sense say otherwise. More audits are definitely on the way, and the IRS has a long history of going after taxpayers who don’t have the resources to fight back. That’s not likely to change. This week, the FAIRtax Guys go through an article that lists ten things that taxpayers should avoid if they want to lessen their chances of being audited. Of course, if you want to completely eliminate your chance of being audited, you need to join the FAIRtax army and help us get rid of the IRS altogether.

Advocates for a much larger and more powerful IRS may turn out to be the best friends the FAIRtax movement ever had. FAIRtax advocates have been pointing out all that’s wrong with the IRS for years. It’s invasive, it doesn’t respect the Bill of Rights, and it often acts like a bully. And for years, very few people seemed to care. That appears to be changing. This week, the FAIRtax Guys welcome AFFT president Steve Hayes for a look at how people’s attitudes toward the IRS are changing now that Congress has passed a law mandating “enhanced enforcement” by a substantially bigger and meaner IRS.

Last week, the FAIRtax Guys discussed the public alarm that the “Inflation Reduction” Act has triggered regarding the massive increase in the size and scope of the IRS. All of a sudden, people are paying attention to what’s happening at the IRS and they don’t like what they see. This week, the Guys continue that discussion as “get rid of the IRS” continues to be a very popular internet search. Front and center in this week’s discussion is a job posting that the IRS has since taken down that listed the willingness to use deadly force as a requirement. There’s no question about it. The IRS is about to get massively bigger and massively meaner, and there’s only one way to get rid of it. Pass the FAIRtax.

With the passage of the “Inflation Reduction” Act and its gargantuan increase in the IRS’s budget, people on social media seems to be alarmed by the massive changes coming to the government’s most universally hated agency. Memes are pointing out that large football stadiums are still too small to hold the army of new IRS agents that will be hired. Others call for hiring school resource officers rather than IRS agents, and others compare the number of billionaires in the country to the number of new agents being hired to show that the enhanced enforcement isn’t going to be aimed at just the super-rich. Perhaps most telling is the fact that “get rid of the IRS” has suddenly become a very popular internet search. Don’t be fooled. A flat tax won’t get rid of the IRS because a flat tax is still an income tax. The only way to get rid of the IRS is to get rid of the income tax—and that’s exactly what the FAIRtax does. It’s a message we’ve been preaching here on FAIRtax Power Radio for years. Check it all out here: https://fairtax.org/about/how-fairtax-works

While FAIRtax Guy Bob Scarborough takes a vacation, CPA Jade Walle joins Bob Paxton for his quarterly “Walle’s FAIRtax World” on FAIRtax Power Radio. One of the items he discusses is the “Inflation Reduction Act”—a bill hammered out between West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. It sounds like a good idea, until you realize that way too often, a bill in Congress actually has the exact opposite effect of what the name implies. One of the provisions in the bill is a gargantuan increase in the IRS’ s budget which the bill’s crafters say is necessary in order to step up enforcement and collect the nearly $1 trillion a year lost to illegal tax evaders. Another provision is an increase in corporate taxes. With the precision of a surgeon, Jade dissects each of these provisions and exposes the faulty thinking behind them. Then he shows how the FAIRtax would actually solve the problem while saving us billions at the same time.

Most Americans know that Washington DC is inhabited by an army of lobbyists that try to influence legislation on behalf of their clients. But most people have no idea just how big the lobbying industry is or how much money is spread around in an effort to get Members of Congress to either support or oppose particular pieces of legislation. Opensecrets.org has compiled some rather amazing statistics from publicly available data. This week, the FAIRtax Guys dig into some of that data. Not surprisingly, they discover that taxes is one of the top three issues that lobbyists are trying to influence. When you see how much money is involved, you’ll understand why Congress is so intent on keeping the income tax system and all the lobbying that comes with it. That’s why it’s vitally important that FAIRtax volunteers not give up in their efforts to elect FAIRtax candidates to Congress.

Suppose you need to fly across the country on business. Your boss is going to pay for your ticket and you’re offered two choices. You can fly in the back seat of a 70-year-old Piper Cub, or you can go First Class on one of Delta Airlines’ new A321 Neos. Easy choice, isn’t it? Most people don’t know it, but they have a similar choice when it comes to Federal taxation. They can choose to remain subject to the 109-year-old income tax system, or they can choose the FAIRtax. Truth be told, the difference between the income tax and the FAIRtax is about as dramatic as the difference between the Cub that cruises at around 90 MPH, and the modern jet that moves along at over 500 MPH. In this episode of FAIRtax Power Radio, the FAIRtax Guys present several of the choices you have when it comes to taxation, and show why people should choose the FAIRtax.

Taxes are as old as civilized society itself. There have been thousands of different tax systems throughout history, and they all have one thing in common—a significant number of people affected by them believe them to be unfair. That’s certainly the case with the income tax in the United States. The Internal Revenue Code is a hopeless labyrinth of exemptions, exceptions, deductions and credits that some people get and others don’t. And the rules change every year. In this episode of FAIRtax Power Radio, the FAIRtax Guys take a look at some of the characteristics that make the FAIRtax a fair tax. Listen and learn how the FAIRtax disempowers government bureaucrats and puts you back in control of how much tax you pay and when you pay it.

Imagine that there are two minutes left in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl and your team is down by four points. You need a touchdown to win the game. You have the ball, third and nine on your opponent’s 30 yard line. Your quarterback completes a pass to the tight end for a ten yard gain. You look to the sidelines expecting the officials to signal first down and move the chains. But wait. The referee runs over and tells you that the rules have changed. You now need fifteen yards to get a first down, and it’s fourth and four. Crazy? That might not happen on the football field, but similar things happen all the time with the tax code. Credits are given and then taken away. Temporary measures are implemented. Some expire, some get extended and some are made permanent. You just never know from one year to the next what the tax law in any particular situation is going to be. In this edition of FAIRtax Power Radio, the Guys look at just how unstable the income tax has been over time and make the case that it all needs to be replaced by the FAIRtax.

Most people, including many FAIRtax volunteers, don’t realize that the United States is the only country in the world with citizenship-based taxation as opposed to residency-based taxation. As a result, American citizens living abroad are taxed by both their host country and the American IRS. It’s a really complicated situation that often leads people to renounce their American citizenship. John Richardson is an attorney living in Canada. He specializes in helping American citizens caught in this taxation trap. John joins the FAIRtax Guys to discuss the nightmare that the income tax system inflicts on these Americans and how the FAIRtax would fix everything.

The income tax as we know it today was implemented in 1913. That mean that no one in today’s workforce has known any other system of funding the Federal government. People just assume that the income tax is the only way to do it because it’s the only way they’ve known. And of course, the politicians in DC are all too happy to reinforce that idea in people’s minds. But it doesn’t have to be that way. On today’s FAIRtax Power Radio, FAIRtax Guy Bob Scarborough puts on his history teacher’s hat and details how the United States got along for over a hundred years without an income tax. And when you see what new insanities and absurdities the Congress Critters are trying to put into the tax code, you’ll agree that replacing the income tax with the FAIRtax is the right way to go.

Very few Americans have not been affected by the breakdowns in the supply chain. Once commonly available items are becoming difficult if not impossible to find. Store shelves are empty. Popular items from online retailers are on backorder. And as the law of supply and demand dictates, when supplies shrink, prices go up. It’s a mess, but it doesn’t have to be this way. This very issue was the subject of the June 17 Chairman’s Report written by AFFT president Steve Hayes. So, given the universal interest in this subject, the FAIRtax Guys invited Steve to appear with them this week and explain what’s causing the problem and what’s the best way to fix it.

We’re always happy when people write articles about the FAIRtax. Keeping the FAIRtax in the public discussion is critical to getting it passed. Unfortunately, authors who aren’t really familiar with the FAIRtax often get things wrong. This usually happens when an author is trying to present a “fair and balanced” picture of the FAIRtax by discussing its pros and cons. They feel the need to have roughly as many cons as pros so they feel like they’re being thorough and impartial. In this week’s FAIRtax Power Radio, the Guys offer some gentle correction to the authors of two such articles who slipped off the rails a bit when discussing what they see as cons of the FAIRtax.

After their weekly look at congress.gov, the Guys continue their exploration of the FAIRtax FAQ published at fairtax.org. It’s a really comprehensive resource dealing with a wide variety of questions that people may raise about the FAIRtax. Tune in as Bob and Bob deal with issues like corporate windfalls under the FAIRtax, why there are no exemptions and deductions, and the possibility of having both the FAIRtax and an income tax.

After several weeks of pointing out all the absurdities, inefficiencies, fraud, abuse and incompetence associated with the income tax and the IRS, the FAIRtax Guys get back to the basics of the FAIRtax. Now, more than twenty years after the FAIRtax was introduced as a legislative proposal, there are still thousands of people who don’t know what the FAIRtax is and how it works. More importantly, they don’t know about all the great things the FAIRtax will do for individuals, businesses and the economy in general. In the first of a two part series, Bob and Bob open up the FAIRtax FAQ published at fairtax.org, and begin to explore the wealth of information contained there. This is “refresher” information for every FAIRtax volunteer, but more importantly, it’s a fantastic introduction to the FAIRtax for those who are not familiar with it.

I’ve been a stock car racing fan all my life, but I didn’t know it until my dad took me to my first stock car race. There’s no doubt that millions of Americans are FAIRtax fans and don’t know it because they haven’t been introduced to the FAIRtax and don’t know about all the fantastic things it will do for them. In this week’s FAIRtax Power Radio, Bob and Bob go through a list of specific things that the FAIRtax will do for small (and large) businesses. This should be of interest to all Americans who want the better living that a strong, prosperous economy provides.

We’ve all heard the horror stories about the mess at the IRS. We’ve heard how many of their printers and copiers don’t work because they’re out of ink. We’ve heard about how old and unreliable their computer system is, and we’ve heard how multiplied thousands of refunds have been delayed as the agency deals with a massive backlog of unprocessed returns. What we didn’t know until just recently is that one of the ways the IRS chose to deal with that backlog was simply to throw away thirty million unprocessed paper returns. In this edition of FAIRtax Power Radio, the Guys look at a report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration that details yet another reason why we need to put the IRS out of business by replacing the income tax with the FAIRtax.