FAIRtax Power Radio

The current leadership at Americans For Fair Taxation is aging.  There is a concerted effort underway to recruit the next generation of FAIRtax leaders who will carry the FAIRtax over the finish line.  Jake Buscher is one of those new young minds recently added to the AFFT leadership team. In this FAIRtax Power Radio special, Bob Paxton and Jade Walle sit down with Jake and explore his personal vi...

FAIRtax Power Radio started over ten years ago as a program on an internet radio station.  Over the years, it evolved into the weekly video podcast that it is today.  When co-founder Ron Maiellaro passed on, WTOB’s Bob Scarborough jumped right in to make sure we didn’t miss a beat. Now, after ten plus years and 525 episodes, the FAIRtax Guys have decided that it’s time to end the weekly 30 minute...

States with high state income taxes are finding out something that economists have known all along.  Income taxes are bad for business.  States that are tired of losing business and population to neighboring states that don’t tax income are looking for ways to eliminate their state income taxes. This week the FAIRtax Guys look around the country at some of those efforts.

Putting lipstick on a pig is a common expression for making superficial or cosmetic changes in order to make something undesirable look more attractive without actually changing its underlying nature.  AFFT president Steve Hayes made such a reference regarding two recently introduced tax reform measures. This week, the FAIRtax Guys look at that Chairman’s Report which details why recent tax reform...

Every response you get from an artificial intelligence application comes with this warning—check this over, AI can make mistakes. When we asked AI to simulate a conversation in which a FAIRtax supporter and an income tax supporter were trying to convince a neutral observer which system was better, AI made PLENTY of mistakes trying to defend the income tax, and the FAIRtax Guys are here to call the...

July 4, 2026 will mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.  That mighty document ended up freeing the American colonists from the tyranny of the British king who imposed a multitude of taxes without giving the colonists any representation. This time around, it’s Washington DC, not the British crown, that’s imposing a crushing tax burden on the American people.  It’s time for...

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, you don’t implement an income tax. This week, best selling author John Gaver concludes his discussion with the FAIRtax Guys on his 22 goals that an ideal tax system should meet.

What should an ideal tax system look like?  There are some common sense characteristics of a good tax system that transcend partisan differences. Best selling author John Gaver has compiled a list of 22 goals that an ideal tax system should meet.  This week, he continues his discussion with the FAIRtax Guys noting how the FAIRtax meets these goals again and again, while the income tax falls embarr...

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 tax system doesn’t burden the taxpayers with exorbitant costs just to comply with the code. These are just two of the points that Gaver discusses with the FAIRtax Guys this week as they continue their multi-part series looking at all 22 goals and determining...

Best selling author John Gaver has written extensively about tax reform.  He has developed a set of 22 goals that a superior tax reform proposal should meet. This week, the FAIRtax Guys welcome Gaver to the program to begin a multi-part series in which they go over all 22 goals and see what kind of tax system meets these goals.  Here’s a hint—it’s not the income tax.

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 dishonestly misrepresent it.  Boortz and Linder knew that, and addressed many of their questions and objections in Chapter 15 of the original FAIRtax book. This week, the FAIRtax Guys conclude their five part series going over these questions and objections.

You have questions.  The FAIRtax Guys have answers.  Or more specifically, Neal Boortz and John Linder anticipated many of the questions and objections that would be raised against the FAIRtax and addressed them in Chapter 15 of the original FAIRtax book. This week, the FAIRtax Guys continues their series based on that chapter of the book.  This is good information that every FAIRtax volunteer sho...

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 FAIRtax Guys continue their Questions and Objections series taken from Chapter 15 of the original Boortz and Linder FAIRtax book.

Some questions and objections raised against the FAIRtax are honest.  Some are not.  In either case, FAIRtax advocates need to know how to answer those questions and meet those objections. To that end, the FAIRtax Guys continue with their series based on Chapter 15 of the original Boortz and Linder FAIRtax book in which the authors examine some of the questions and objections they expected would b...

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 people with a vested interest in keeping the income tax system in place would raise objections trying to persuade people to stick with the status quo. This week, the FAIRtax Guys begin a series based on Chapter 15 of the FAIRtax book in which the authors add...

With election season for the midterms heating up, it’s important for voters to know where the candidates stand on important issues like tax reform and replacing the income tax with the FAIRtax. To this end, FAIRtax Power Radio welcomes Steve Toth to the program.  Steve is running for Congress in Texas District 2.  This week, the FAIRtax Guys explore Steve’s position on the FAIRtax as he seeks to u...

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.  You don’t see it on your receipt, but today’s retail prices are significantly inflated by the billions of dollars in costs that the federal income tax system imposes on businesses of every size. This week, the FAIRtax Guys revisit chapter five of Boortz and L...

Americans For Fair Taxation is grooming the next generation of leaders to carry on the mission of replacing the federal income tax with the FAIRtax. This week, the FAIRtax Guys welcome AFFT president Steve Hayes and Jade Walle to the program to detail exactly how the leadership structure is changing and how the organization expects to benefit from the infusion of new, youthful enthusiasm into 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 prone, most error prone, most complex and most unfair system tax system imaginable.  It needs to be replaced. This week, the FAIRtax Guys conclude their four part series detailing the top ten things that are wrong with the federal income tax and showing how the...

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 is broken beyond repair and the only way to fix it is to repeal it and replace it with something infinitely simpler and fairer—the FAIRtax. This week, the FAIRtax Guys continue with part three of their four part series detailing the top ten things that are wro...

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 FAIRtax Guys continue their series trying to show American taxpayers just how badly broken the system is, and why it should be replaced with the FAIRtax.

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, president of Americans For Fair Taxation, to the program to give us his annual “State of the FAIRtax” message.

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 sensible.  Others, not so much.  Just about all of them are at the behest of a lobbyist. During the year, the Guys keep a running list of the worst of the worst when it comes to these tax code changes.  Some are truly shameful—blatant political agenda pushing via t...

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 only way to fix it is to replace it with something better.  Fortunately, there are a whole host of things we can point to that illustrate just how badly broken the income tax really is. This week, the FAIRtax Guys begin a multi part series pointing out all the t...

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 costs them.  They are dead wrong. This week, the FAIRtax Guys dig back into the original Boortz and Linder FAIRtax book to uncover the ugly truth about what the income tax system REALLY costs people.