Subject: Lack of True Reform Comment: I am deeply concerned and gravely disappointed with the decision of this panel to not take seriously the enactment of HR 25 - The FairTax proposal. Your committee was charged with reforming the tax code to make it more equitable and simplistic and you have failed on both accounts. All of you are guilty of playing the same old political game that always goes on in Washington and that is carving out new tax regulations or tweaking old tax regulations so as to please the lobbyist and money donors on K Street. Each of you should be ashamed and embarrassed to present these tax proposals that amount to nothing more than disguised tax hikes. Apparently no one in Washington has a spine anymore to stand up and fight for what is right and that is to remove the shackles of the income tax from the ankles of Americans so that this economy can truly grow and to provide true freedom and equality for all. Our founding fathers are once again rolling over in their graves because you were presented with the opportunity to return to each American the freedom from oppressive tax laws and restore the original intent of funding the government with consumption based taxes. Remember this; I will never give up this fight for what is fundamentally right. |