DM: FairTax: The Truth/The Really Inconvenient Truths

by Neal Boortz ; Iain Murray

Three years ago, Neal Boortz and John Linder unveiled a bold, ground-breaking new plan to jump-start the U.S. economy, bring back lost industries and jobs, recapture billions of untaxed dollars hoarded by criminal and offshore businesses, and –- best of all -- to eliminate federal taxes and the IRS altogether. Their book explaining how, The FairTax Book, rocketed to the top of the New York Times Bestseller List, propelling a powerful grassroots tax reform movement that continues spreading like wildfire across our nation.

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Best of all, FairTax: The Truth offers eye-opening new insights not covered in the original book. It shows why the FairTax plan is simple, brilliant, and workable, and details how it will enable you to keep your money rather than turn it over to a ravenous IRS. FairTax: The Truth demonstrates that there’s still hope of replacing our currently outdated, corrupt, fraudulent, wasteful and punitive income tax system with a simple plan that will revolutionize the way America pays for itself. FairTax has become a national grassroots phenomenon –- here’s how to be a part of it.

The FairTax Plan: simple, brilliant, workable

• How many ideas about our tax code are based on long-held misunderstandings of how the tax code operates –- misunderstandings so pervasive that they can be found at the highest levels of government

• Ten criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of proposals for tax reform

• Our present income tax system: at best a threat to economic liberty, and at worst a threat to the very survival of our Republic

• Three forces that are making massive reform of present tax system not just desirable, but inevitable

• How our present ridiculously complex and unjust tax system began 90 years ago as a flat tax!

• Why we should immediately eliminate all federal income taxes and all federal payroll withholding taxes, and abolish the estate and capital gains taxes -– and replace it all with a national sales tax

• FairTax: not a tax cut, and would not eliminate revenues paid to the Federal Government –- but would collect them more efficiently and justly

• Why everyone would benefit from a substantial increase in take-home pay

• How payroll withholding taxes are regressive, hitting hardest those who are least able to pay

• How Fairtax would bring greater accountability and visibility to federal tax collection

• Why the FairTax Plan has received so much attention on the national stage -– surprising even its authors

• How even the most alarming and negative economic studies of the FairTax Plan still paint a winning picture for American wage earners

• The outrageous dishonesty of many of the detractors of the FairTax Plan

• How the FairTax Plan will help wage earners even if prices start rising

• Why the "Made In America" label would come roaring back to life if the FairTax Plan were adopted

• How any true tax reform must result in a tax code that’s easy for all Americans to understand -– regardless of education, occupation, or station in life

• Seven huge advantages that FairTax enjoys over the present tax system

• How the FairTax protects every household from the impact of that tax on the basic necessities of life

• Tax breaks for the rich? Hardly! Why the vast majority of individual income taxes are now paid by a very small percentage of high achievers at the top of the income scale

• How FairTax gives citizens an easy way to respond to government abuses

• How our current tax system is hindering America’s ability to compete in the global marketplace

• Why it’s more just to tax wealth (like FairTax) rather than wages (like the present system)

• How FairTax will double the revenues to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid in less than twenty years

• Europe’s stark lessons about the impact of high income taxes levied on workers

• How FairTax will separate the issue of taxes from the issue of government spending for the first time in decades

• What about tax cheats? How FairTax will make it easier to enforce the tax code and identify and prosecute tax evaders

• China: how FairTax can help us ensure that our economic relationship with this burgeoning economic power works in fairness for both parties

• What the transition costs would be in moving from the present system to the FairTax Plan

• Punishing the rich for being successful: why the present system is so much more unjust than FairTax -– and how the bottom 50% of all income earners pay just 3.4% of income taxes

• How FairTax would end the power of individual politicians and political groups to use tax policy to favor one group of voters over another for the sake of gaining votes

• How FairTax encourages savings, and why it won’t have an adverse impact on charitable giving

• How FairTax will dramatically increase investment, and lead to a boom that will make America an economic powerhouse greater than any the world has ever seen

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  The liberal environmental movement takes for granted that strict government regulation and public ownership is necessary for the preservation of the environment. Yet who, in the end, is responsible for the great environmental catastrophes of the recent past? According to Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the real answer is: environmentalists themselves. "The dogmatic ideologies and restrictive policies pushed on us by the environmental Left have harmed nature more than helped it," argues Murray, "but the environmentalists have never borne the blame." Now, in The REALLY Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don’t Want You to Know About – Because They Helped Cause Them, Murray reveals just how often and gravely liberal environmentalists have harmed the environment, how they have covered up this fact, and how conservatives can reclaim the environmental issue by stressing free-enterprise, private-property solutions.

  To make his case, Murray focuses on seven major modern environmental catastrophes that illustrate the failure of the liberal approach. All had tragic consequences for humans or the environment. All could have been avoided or mitigated by alternative approaches based on conservative thinking. Yet, in each case, the liberal approach was not to admit failure -- but to condemn the alternative approach, deny the problem exists, blame it on something else or even to claim it as a victory.

  The REALLY Inconvenient Truths reveals:
  • The origins of the modern liberal environmental movement in the campaign to ban DDT -- and how that led to the resurgence of malaria in the poorest countries, with devastatingly fatal consequences

  • How the government-dictated preference for corn-based ethanol and other biofuels is causing massive land overuse, soaring food prices, and increased hunger in the poorest places

  • How a single SUV tank of ethanol-based gasoline burns enough food to feed a starving African for a year

  • How public ownership of waterways causes pollution -– and was the real reason Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River "caught fire" in 1969 (a founding myth of environmentalism)

  • How hormones from contraceptive and "morning after" pills are literally being flushed into rivers and causing bizarre sexual malformations in fish -– and why, for once, there has been no outcry from liberals

  • Yellowstone in flames: How liberal-inspired management programs in the Forest Service and the National Parks have led to major wildfires –- including a near-castrophic one in the nation’s crown jewel, Yellowstone Park

  • How the Endangered Species Act actually increases the threat of wildlife extinction -– while private approaches have helped species recover all over the world

  • Getting the Green: how the environmental movement is funded by industries that reap enormous profits from environmental laws and regulations

  • How overfishing of the oceans results directly from liberal opposition to property rights in the oceans, as embodied in the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST)

  • Shut Up, He Explained: how censorship, manufactured outrage, and even phony "science" are being used to cut short the debate over global warming

  • The Lost Sea: how the last attempt to "scientifically manage" an economy, in Soviet Russia, caused the destruction of the Aral Sea -- which Al Gore and others now wrongly blame on global warming

  • What history demonstrates about the importance of property rights in protecting the environment

  In this election year, Republican politicians tell us that conservatives need to adapt and develop an "environmental" policy to compete with liberal Democrats. In truth, no adaptation is needed. As The REALLY Inconvenient Truths demonstrates, liberal laws and policies that were introduced in the name of saving the environment are hurting it -– whereas conservative principles such as freedom and property rights help to preserve and protect the environment whenever they are allowed to work.