The FairTax Pledge
I’ve been wanting to do something to show my support for the FairTax for some time now but never knew exactly what I should do. I’m not the volunteer type to go to set up a booth at a festival or show and try to recruit more FairTaxers so that was out. I started thinking about doing a regular FairTax section on here but hell, I don’t even post regularly, how well would that work? Not to mention the fact that my readership consists of like 12 people.
So I decided to do something different. I decided that the only way to get the FairTax passed is to show the politicians how many people in their district are dedicated to the bill. So over the past few days, I’ve been working on a new website, TheFairTaxPledge.com. It’s a site where FairTaxers can get together and discuss the happenings of the bill but more importantly, it’s a place where people can take a pledge to vote for the candidate in their district who will actively support the FairTax.
The site is in very very early development but I figured if I would go ahead and post it here so possibly a few of the 12 of you could check out the site and let me know what you think. What’s working? What’s not? What should I do differently? Stuff like that. I know I should be doing all this development stuff in a closed network but I really don’t care. So anywho, take a look at tell me what you think.
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August 25th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
I suspect this is just a ruse to impress FairTax groupie chicks.
(Brilliant!)
August 25th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Shhh! Don’t tell anyone!
August 25th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
you should change the favicon to something other than the drupal default.
August 25th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Good call. Deleted.
August 25th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
I’m pretty staunchly anti-fairtax but I must admit, this is a great idea and, so far, a nice looking website. Kudos.
August 25th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Thanks TJ, that means a lot coming from someone anti-FairTax. I’ve been thinking about a way I could encourage people such as yourself to be part of the site as well … I think it would be a great way to have some good debate. Of course, that would mean I would have to find a way to keep hostilities in check. If there has one thing I’ve learned about hot button issues such as the FairTax, emotions run very deep and it doesn’t take long before people start flaming one another. That’s not the intent of this site.
I hope you’ll check back!
August 26th, 2007 at 8:54 am
Nice job Dave…Tym and I were talking about the fair tax with our neighbors last night. In a nation of consumers (and overconsumers), it will be a great day when we are taxed based on what we consume, not what the government thinks they should take from our paychecks.
I can post a link on The Fountain if you want. Let me know.
August 26th, 2007 at 8:56 am
By all means, post a link anywhere and everywhere you can…. and join!
August 27th, 2007 at 8:32 am
Looks good Dave!
August 28th, 2007 at 10:38 am
Since our school thinks it can force our students to stand for the pledge of allegiance, I think I will force my kids to pledge to the fair tax (and maybe read the book).
August 28th, 2007 at 10:40 am
Awesome. I have a friend who is a teacher and she actually made The FairTax Book required reading for her economics class.
August 28th, 2007 at 10:44 am
Interesting, did she also require a counterpoint to Fair Tax? Since FairTax isn’t really an economic theory it seems like an odd book to require. Wealth of Nations, sure, but FairTax?
August 28th, 2007 at 10:46 am
I’m not sure exactly. I kind of wondered the same thing. At one point she was going to have me come speak to her class on the FairTax but she warned that I would be introduced as a ‘radical extremist’ … that makes me laugh. Point is, she was definitely establishing that the FairTax is only one side of the coin.
Maybe she made the 65,000+ pages of the current IRS tax code the counterpoint?
September 14th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
I remember reading the Dems won’t ever allow the Fair Tax unless they are in the majority and control the WH and can take credit for it. If that’s true (and I suspect it is not) then that would be the only positive thing of a Hillary victory in ‘08.
Speaking of which, I don’t think she would beat Rudy. Maybe Fred, maybe Knute, but not Rudy.
September 16th, 2007 at 10:04 am
I doubt the Dems will even let the FairTax be introduced to the House for voting… personal opinion. I like Rudy, too and fell like he’s probably the only candidate with a shot at beating Hillary. Unfortunately he doesn’t support the FairTax.