Posted: May 25, 2005 By: Bart Hile

Subject: Recommend the Fair Tax!

Comment: In your work to recommend a "fix" to the tax system, I would like to weigh in as a regular citizen of the United States. Our current tax system is hopelessly broken, well beyond any "fix." We need a new system, a simple system, a transparent system, and most importantly, a fair system.

I support the Fair Tax proposal (HR25/S25) for the following reasons: 1) It gets the Federal Government out of the private lives of its citizens; 2) It relieves the populace from a tax system that is beyond the comprehension of 99% of the people; 3) It would provide an unprecedented economic boom; 4)It allows each person to determine how much tax they wish to pay, simply by making lifestyle choices; 5) It would rebate the sales tax paid, up to the poverty level, for every American household, thereby relieving the poorest among us from any tax burden; and 6) It would treat all Americans the same.

The Fair Tax has been endorsed by 100's of the nation's pre-eminent economists, and seems to be a favorite idea of Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan. There's been a lot of brain power put behind this legislation, and it can solve most of the country's tax problems while lessening government interference in the lives of citizens.

I encourage you to recommend the Fair Tax as a replacement of our current tax system.

Thank you for your time.

Bart Hile