FairTax proposal offers fairness and simplicity

by David Boone | Houston, Minn.

Income tax code regulations have ballooned in excess of 75,000 pages, and the Internal Revenue Service has selectively persecuted groups that the administration deems to be political foes.

Everyone knows the federal income tax is broken beyond repair.

Rep. Dave Camp, R-Michigan, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, recently said the objective of his committee was to begin with a blank page to fix revenue collection. But what I hear out of the committee does not truly start with a blank page.

The FairTax, on the other hand, is the only proposal before Congress that does away with the income tax code.

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