Chairman's Report

In a nutshell, crony capitalism is a system where businesses and individuals with political connections are granted government favors that give them an unfair advantage in the free market. In this weeks Chairman's Report, Steve Hayes explores a particularly egregious example of crony capitalism that would benefit personal injury attorneys, and it's all made possible because deals like this can be...

The IRS has grudgingly admitted that income tax evasion costs the US Treasury $1 trillion dollars a year. Washington's solution? Hire an army of new IRS agents to audit tax returns and catch the cheaters. In this week's Chairman's Report, Steve Hayes explains why that not only won't solve the problem, but will actually make it worse. Steve again shows why the FAIRtax is the only real solution.

This week's Chairman's Report was guest written by CPA Jade Walle. He explores several ways in which the FAIRtax would positively impact our annual budget deficit, and by extension, our overall national debt.

There is good control and bad control when it comes to taxes. In this Chairman's Report, Steve Hayes explains the differences between good and bad control and then applies that to the income tax vs. the FAIRtax.

Excessive borrowing to fund too much government spending is a recipe for disaster. So far, the United States hasn't had to pay the price--yet. But even the Federal government is not immune to the basic laws of economics. In this Chairman's Report, Steve Hayes breaks it all down and explains how the FAIRtax would be an elegant solution to a variety of economic problems.

Senator Bernie Sanders has proposed spending trillions of dollars on programs he believes will help America. The problem is figuring out how to fund it all. Hey Senator Sanders, here's an idea--help us pass the FAIRtax. The economy will boom, tax evasion will be all but eliminated and revenue will flow into DC to fund the spending you propose.

This week's Chairman's Report is guest written by Jade Walle, CPA and board member for Americans For Fair Taxation. Listen as Jade explains how the FAIRtax will enable Americans to accomplish even more.

After years of downplaying the impact of evasion on the income/payroll tax system, the IRS commissioner recently admitted that it's a trillion dollar a year problem. But what does all that evasion really mean? In this week's Chairman's Report, Steve Hayes breaks it all down and exposes a frightening proposal for dealing with it.

When there's a simple way and a hard way to do something, most reasonable people choose the simple way. So why do we have such a complex and incomprehensible tax system? The answer lies in the answer to a simple question, "Who benefits?" In this week's Chairman's Report, Steve Hayes answers that question and explains what we need to do to get Congress to replace the complex income tax system with...

With the passing of Ron Maiellaro, the FAIRtax movement lost one of its most passionate supporters and most effective spokesmen. This week's Chairman's Report is largely guest written by Bob Paxton, Ron's FAIRtax Power Radio co-host for over six years.

It's a simple truth. If you want more of something, reward it. If you want less of something, punish it. In this week's Chairman's Report, we clearly see how the income/payroll tax system punishes labor, while the FAIRtax would reward it.

This week's Chairman's Report is guest written by Jade Walle, a CPA and a board member for Americans For Fair Taxation. Jade uses the analogy of putting a golf ball to explain the burdens that the income tax system imposes on businesses and how the FAIRtax turns it all into a gimmie.

The nine most frightening words in the English language apply to a new proposal floating around DC. In this Chairman's Report, Steve Hayes explains why letting the IRS prepare everyone's tax return is a really bad idea.

The idea of taxing government may seem silly to some people, but the fact is that the government is already being taxed under the income/payroll tax system. This week's Chairman's Report breaks down information compiled by Dr. Karen Walby about how that all works and how the FAIRtax will make everything more transparent.

An article in the Wall Street Journal points out that many wealthy people are financing big purchases by borrowing against the value of their capital investments rather than selling them. This has prompted the bureaucrats to propose even more complicated changes to the tax code to deal with this "grave injustice". Just don't expect the DC crowd to play by the same rules they impose on everyone els...

Congressmen Mike Kelly and John Lewis tried to turn the IRS from an adversary into a resource for taxpayers. Unfortunately, they weren't successful. They made a good faith effort, but like putting lipstick on a pig, you just can't change something by dressing it up. The IRS is still a dysfunctional agency tasked with an impossible mission. The only way to make it better is to get rid of it. And th...

A month ago, the Chairman's Report dealt with the story of how anti-Republican bias at the IRS resulted in a faith based group in Texas being denied tax exempt status. Well, thanks to an outpouring of outrage against this blatantly politically biased action, this story has a happy ending. Check it out in this week's Chairman's Report. We the People still hold the ultimate power.

On June 11, the Chairman's Report detailed how Steve Hayes narrowly avoided having an unjustified tax lien filed against him by the State of California. Dyane Smith wasn't so lucky. Dyane is also a lawyer, but she's been engaged in a 20 year fight with the IRS. Listen to her nearly unbelievable story of just how careless, incompetent and vindictive the IRS can be. What happened to her alone is mor...

You've no doubt heard some claim that taxation is theft. That's not entirely correct, but since taxation does force people to give up their money against their will, some of the same moral principles that apply to theft also apply to taxation. This week, Steve Hayes looks at the morality of taxation and how the FAIRtax beats the income tax in the moral arena.

This week, the Chairman's Report pauses to reflect on why we're persisting with our efforts to replace the income tax with the FAIRtax, and to wish everyone a happy 4th of July.

It looks like the spirit of Lois Lerner is still alive and well at the IRS. A religious group in Texas was recently denied tax exempt status because the principles it teaches would lead people to vote Republican. This continued pollicization of the IRS one of the many reasons we need to replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and exterminate the IRS forever.

Recently, confidential tax return information on some of America's wealthiest individuals was leaked in an effort to drum up support for raising taxes on the rich, and there's a good chance the leakers will not be punished. That should frighten everyone, because if it can happen to them, it can happen to you. There's only one way to stop activist bureaucrats from compromising confidential tax retu...

This week,, Steve Hayes shares a harrowing, personal story about what can happen when a taxing authority's computer makes a mistake. With the current administration proposing to triple the IRS's budget to allow for the purchase of newer, more powerful and more sophisticated computers, it provides a chilling look into what we might expect should the IRS get its hands on this technology.

Few things within our government are more obviously broken than our income/payroll tax system. One of its worst faults is the ease with which it is evaded and defrauded. The examples noted in this week's Chairman's Report are just the tip of the iceberg. So, when something so clearly in need of replacement stubbornly continues to hang on, there can be only one reason. Follow the money. It's time t...

During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly noted to minority audiences that decades of Democrat policies had not significantly advanced their station in life. He then challenged them to vote for him by asking "What have you got to lose?" It's time to do the same with the FAIRtax. After decades of living under the income tax, many Americans are still living paycheck to paycheck and don't hav...