Comes the FairTax

The latest in the push for saner, more effective taxation in the United States

THE biggest success story of the 2008 Republican primary season isn’t about a candidate. It’s about an issue: Fair Tax, a proposal that would eliminate income taxes outright and replace them with a national sales tax. From relative obscurity a year ago, the Fair Tax campaign has come to dominate Republican politics at the grassroots level, especially in battleground states like Iowa, where the GOP’s state chairman has said, “The most important economic reform Congress can enact to win the fight against poverty is the Fair Tax.”

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The latest in the push for saner, more effective taxation in the United States

THE biggest success story of the 2008 Republican primary season isn’t about a candidate. It’s about an issue: Fair Tax, a proposal that would eliminate income taxes outright and replace them with a national sales tax. From relative obscurity a year ago, the Fair Tax campaign has come to dominate Republican politics at the grassroots level, especially in battleground states like Iowa, where the GOP’s state chairman has said, “The most important economic reform Congress can enact to win the fight against poverty is the Fair Tax.”