Comment: Commissioners, I write to you today pleading for common sense. For far too long the American people have been saddled with an unfair, cumbersome, and unintelligible system of taxation. This system is responsible for billions of dollars wasted every year in compliance and businesses making decisions counter to economic and job growth based on a taxation system that no one truly understands. The path out of this nightmare is already available to us in the form of the National Retail Sales Tax, HR25, introduced in the House of Representatives by Congressman John Linder and S25 introduced by Senator Saxby Chambliss in the Senate. Referred to as the “FairTax” this legislation meets and exceeds all the guidelines the President has set forth when he established this panel and is vastly superior to other proposals on the table which, in my humble opinion, seek to extend the system of influence peddling and concession making on behalf of some to the detriment of all others that has been a mainstay of Washington politics for many years. Making taxation, as intended by our founding fathers and our Constitution, simple, voluntary, and transparent, the FairTax treats all Americans equally and as a bonus completely un-taxes the poor. As a citizen of the greatest nation in all of human history, I fail to understand why such a system as the FairTax has not yet been embraced and urge this Commission in the strongest possible terms to recommend enactment of the FairTax to the Secretary of the Treasury and the President. Charles T. Anderson 4635 English Oaks Lane Lilburn GA 30047-3539 770 923 3163 April 18, 2005 |