If you think that the sales tax that’s shown on your receipt is the only tax you’re paying on a retail transaction, you are sadly mistaken.  You don’t see it on your receipt, but today’s retail prices are significantly inflated by the billions of dollars in costs that the federal income tax system imposes on businesses of every size.

This week, the FAIRtax Guys revisit chapter five of Boortz and Linder’s FAIRtax book to explain how the income tax system drives up the price of everything you buy.

Americans For Fair Taxation is grooming the next generation of leaders to carry on the mission of replacing the federal income tax with the FAIRtax.

This week, the FAIRtax Guys welcome AFFT president Steve Hayes and Jade Walle to the program to detail exactly how the leadership structure is changing and how the organization expects to benefit from the infusion of new, youthful enthusiasm into the organization.

You could not start with a blank sheet of paper and design a worse tax system than we have in the federal income tax.  It’s the most fraud prone, most error prone, most complex and most unfair system tax system imaginable.  It needs to be replaced.

This week, the FAIRtax Guys conclude their four part series detailing the top ten things that are wrong with the federal income tax and showing how the FAIRtax would be infinitely better.

A list of everything that’s wrong with the federal income tax system would stretch to the moon and back.  There is no doubt that the system is broken beyond repair and the only way to fix it is to repeal it and replace it with something infinitely simpler and fairer—the FAIRtax.

This week, the FAIRtax Guys continue with part three of their four part series detailing the top ten things that are wrong with the income tax.

The income tax system is hopelessly broken.  That’s a fact that far too few Americans realize, but it’s true nonetheless.

This week, the FAIRtax Guys continue their series trying to show American taxpayers just how badly broken the system is, and why it should be replaced with the FAIRtax.

As the calendar rolls over to 2026, the FAIRtax community has a lot to look forward to.

This week the FAIRtax Guys welcome Steve Hayes, president of Americans For Fair Taxation, to the program to give us his annual “State of the FAIRtax” message.

Every week the FAIRtax Guys look at congress.gov to see what kind of changes to the tax code are being proposed in Congress.  Some are sensible.  Others, not so much.  Just about all of them are at the behest of a lobbyist.

During the year, the Guys keep a running list of the worst of the worst when it comes to these tax code changes.  Some are truly shameful—blatant political agenda pushing via the tax code.  Some just make you shake your head and wonder what on earth is THAT doing in the tax code.

The first step in getting the FAIRtax passed will be to convince enough people that the income tax system is broken beyond repair and the only way to fix it is to replace it with something better.  Fortunately, there are a whole host of things we can point to that illustrate just how badly broken the income tax really is.

This week, the FAIRtax Guys begin a multi part series pointing out all the things that are wrong with the income tax.

Most people believe that the “tax owed” line on their income tax return is an accurate measure of how much the federal income tax system costs them.  They are dead wrong.

This week, the FAIRtax Guys dig back into the original Boortz and Linder FAIRtax book to uncover the ugly truth about what the income tax system REALLY costs people.

The recent government shutdown was longer and costlier than anyone would have liked.  Federal employees went without paychecks.  Vital services were either shut down entirely or significantly curtailed.  People suffered while the politicians pointed fingers at each other and traded blame on who was responsible for the mess.

The FAIRtax obviously can’t cure the partisan divide in Congress and can’t make the two sides stop arguing.  However, the FAIRtax Guys take an interesting look at how the FAIRtax could make it easier for people to get by the next time this happens.