Fair Tax and Tea

April 14, 2009 · Filed Under National Politics

msbeasley thankw Fair Tax and Tea In my 46 years I’ve only been to one tea party; I was about 10 or 11 and my sister and her Ms. Beasley doll invited me. I was embarrassed to go but they enticed me with promise of a cake that they were baking in their ‘Easy Bake Oven.’

Now all these years later and I’ve decided to go to my second tea party. No promise of food and I’m not at all apprehensive about what people will think or how they may talk.

I like millions of other Americans want my voice heard and added to the growing numbers who are fed up with our government taking too much. As if my tax percentage on my earnings isn’t enough, they take a cut of everything I purchase, services I use, inheritance I may receive and they even bill me for my ‘fair share’ of my home which is paid for and the list goes on and on.

Besides these, there are other boundaries that the imperial leadership of our country is trying to get it’s hooks into but suffice for now is that we as a nation tackle one problem at a time.

From everything I’ve heard about the events there will be speakers, petitions to sign and it seems well organized. Peaceful dissent is a valid way to protest and make our voices heard and besides the Acorn nuts that apparently are planning to infiltrate the tea parties, I’ve heard nothing about ruckus demonstrations. Just humble Americans coming together to create one loud, unmistakable voice.

The only problem that I see with the tea party is the lack of a solution to the huge tax burdens. It’s great to bring attention to the problem of course but people tend to be fickle and may come away disillusioned if nobody bothers to answer the question of, “what are we going to do now?”

My answer to that is ‘The Fair Tax”, actually it’s not my solution at all. It was the brain child of much smarter people than I. It’s being touted by the likes of Neal Boortz, U.S. Representitive John Linder, Governor Mike Huckabee and many others. Millions of dollars were put into its inception and the research it took to look at every conceivable outcome it may produce. These ‘smart’ people have concluded that it would change America almost overnight and all for the better. Rather than write the facts I know, I urge you to look at www.fairtax.org to see for yourself.

Perhaps the most compelling argument I’ve seen for the Fair Tax was recently made by Mr. Chuck Norris. He has put it into words that should inspire any American with a pulse to at least give it a fair hearing if they haven’t so far. Besides being a mega movie star with a mean hook kick, Norris is quite the advocate for the Fair Tax. If you’ll give his words a read you may just want to make a sign for the Fair Tax and join the party.