FAIRtax Power Radio

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 subj...

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 th...

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...

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 R...

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 wa...

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 subje...

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 rou...

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 b...

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, th...

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 t...

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 t...

Unless you’ve been a coma for the past twelve months, you’ve no doubt noticed that inflation is back in the American economy at a level that hasn’t been seen in forty years. As the inflation monster hungrily gobbles up more and more of our purchasing power, people are desperately searching for a weapon to slay the monster with. In his quarterly Walle’s FAIRtax World, CPA Jade Walle looks at some o...

No one likes spending hours filling out all the complicated forms that make up a tax return. Even taxpayers with relatively simple returns either buy tax preparation software or pay a professional tax preparer to do their taxes for them. Either way, it takes a lot of time, effort and money to comply with our insanely complicated and convoluted tax code. So, it’s no wonder that the thought of doing...

Unless you have a mountain of campaign cash to contribute to a politician, it can be really hard to get that politician’s attention and convince him/her to support the FAIRtax. Currently, the FAIRtax bill has 29 cosponsors in the House. Adding in the primary sponsor, that’s 30 FAIRtax supporters out of 435 House members. A FAIRtax bill hasn’t even been introduced in the Senate in this Congress. Cl...

It’s been said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. For decades criminals and fraudsters have demonstrated just how easy it is to defraud the IRS. Illegal tax evasion now runs close to a trillion dollars a year. Identity thieves steal millions of dollars filing fake tax returns in other people’s names. Other criminals have hundreds...

The income tax system imposes a crushing burden on the American people above and beyond the actual taxes people owe. Americans spend a staggering amount of both time and money doing all that’s necessary in order to comply with an ever changing and ever increasingly complex tax code. In this special “Tax Day” edition of FAIRtax Power Radio, the Guys turn to CPA Jade Walle for some insight on just h...

In their regular look at congress.gov, the FAIRtax Guys uncovered HR 7271, the “Putting Gas Money Back in Your Pocket Act”. In reviewing some articles on the subject, they discovered that there are actually several different proposals to reimburse the American people for the extra money they’ve had to spend at the gas pumps in recent months. While the details of these different proposals may vary,...

You wouldn’t put up with it for an instant if your mother-in-law tried to tell you how much of your own money you can put away for your retirement or how much you can withdraw from your savings. That’s none of her business. Yet, people continue to tolerate the IRS doing the exact same thing. And the IRS really has no more business manipulating your personal finances than your mother-in-law has. In...

Any way you look at it, the IRS is a failed institution. Millions of tax returns go unprocessed delaying refunds for millions of taxpayers. Phone calls go unanswered. Jobs go unfilled. Antiquated equipment doesn’t work, and tax evasion is running rampant costing the government nearly $1 trillion a year. Lest you think this is a recent phenomenon, the FAIRtax Guys discuss an informative article tha...

The FAIRtax Guys were privileged to represent the FAIRtax at the recently concluded CPAC conference in Orlando FL. Several other FAIRtax volunteers from as far away as California were in attendance. As they do every year, Bob and Bob made their way around CPAC Central, the vendor/exhibitor area, talking to other attendees, telling them about the FAIRtax and learning about the various causes they r...

Earlier it was announced that the IRS would enhance security on its web site by requiring would be users to verify their identity with a third-party vendor, ID.me. The process would involve submitting a face scan along with selfie photos of the user with copies of recent utility or insurance bills. In this edition of FAIRtax Power Radio, we detail why the IRS simply can’t be trusted to keep this i...

John Gaver is a busy man. Thanks to redistricting in the state of Texas, John has convenient access to candidates in two different Texas Congressional districts, two and eight. FAIRtax Guy Bob Scarborough recently spoke with the latest candidate in district eight to sign the FAIRtax candidate pledge, former Navy JAG Jonathan Hullihan. Hullihan is part of a large field of candidates running for the...

The FAIRtax Guys begin this episode by going where no congress.gov segment has gone before. It’s an astonishing look at exactly why the current tax code is over 75,000 pages of incomprehensible gobbledygook that no one can understand. Then, the Guys expose one of the IRS’s dirty little secrets. With illegal income tax evasion costing the government nearly a trillion dollars a year, you’d think the...

Congressman Mo Brooks from Alabama is a well-known figure in American politics. He is also a very strong FAIRtax supporter having been a cosponsor of HR-25 from the very beginning of his tenure in the US House of Representatives. Congressman Brooks is running for the US Senate in 2022. He was the first, and so far, the only Senate candidate to sign the FAIRtax candidate pledge in this election cyc...

Milam Langella is the third of the three primary challengers to incumbent Dan Crenshaw in Texas district 2 to sign the FAIRtax candidate pledge. He is also the sixth Congressional candidate that FAIRtax volunteer John Gaver has secured a pledge signature from. In this episode of FAIRtax Power Radio, the FAIRtax Guys reveal an exciting new project that John Gaver is working on that should be of gre...