Some people believe that it will be extremely difficult to pass the FAIRtax in the Senate because normal Senate rules require 60 votes to end debate on a measure and bring it up for a vote. Therefore, a minority of just 41 Senators could block the FAIRtax in the Senate. However, in this week's Chairman's Report, Steve Hayes discusses a special Senate procedure called budget reconciliation under which the FAIRtax could pass with just 51 votes.

This week's Chairman's Report features an economics professor, David Kendall. Seventeen years ago, he wrote to the newly formed President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform urging them to adopt the FAIRtax. Eighty professional economists endorsed the letter, but the Panel paid them no attention. Seventeen years later, the FAIRtax is still the best replacement for the Federal income tax. We can't give up now.

In a nutshell, crony capitalism is a system where businesses and individuals with political connections are granted government favors that give them an unfair advantage in the free market. In this weeks Chairman's Report, Steve Hayes explores a particularly egregious example of crony capitalism that would benefit personal injury attorneys, and it's all made possible because deals like this can be buried in the Internal Revenue Code where the public will never see them. The FAIRtax won't wipe out crony capitalism entirely, but it will make it a lot harder to hide.

The IRS has grudgingly admitted that income tax evasion costs the US Treasury $1 trillion dollars a year. Washington's solution? Hire an army of new IRS agents to audit tax returns and catch the cheaters. In this week's Chairman's Report, Steve Hayes explains why that not only won't solve the problem, but will actually make it worse. Steve again shows why the FAIRtax is the only real solution.

This week's Chairman's Report was guest written by CPA Jade Walle. He explores several ways in which the FAIRtax would positively impact our annual budget deficit, and by extension, our overall national debt.

There is good control and bad control when it comes to taxes. In this Chairman's Report, Steve Hayes explains the differences between good and bad control and then applies that to the income tax vs. the FAIRtax.

Excessive borrowing to fund too much government spending is a recipe for disaster. So far, the United States hasn't had to pay the price--yet. But even the Federal government is not immune to the basic laws of economics. In this Chairman's Report, Steve Hayes breaks it all down and explains how the FAIRtax would be an elegant solution to a variety of economic problems.

Senator Bernie Sanders has proposed spending trillions of dollars on programs he believes will help America. The problem is figuring out how to fund it all. Hey Senator Sanders, here's an idea--help us pass the FAIRtax. The economy will boom, tax evasion will be all but eliminated and revenue will flow into DC to fund the spending you propose.

This week's Chairman's Report is guest written by Jade Walle, CPA and board member for Americans For Fair Taxation. Listen as Jade explains how the FAIRtax will enable Americans to accomplish even more.

After years of downplaying the impact of evasion on the income/payroll tax system, the IRS commissioner recently admitted that it's a trillion dollar a year problem. But what does all that evasion really mean? In this week's Chairman's Report, Steve Hayes breaks it all down and exposes a frightening proposal for dealing with it.