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May 12, 2008
Selling the FairTax
Posted by Tina
There's a great idea for selling the FairTax. Buy the book....read the book...carry the book wherever you go and...talk to fellow Americans. As the following article shows it can be an entertaining experience that really has the potential to make a difference!
“Nothing is Certain but Death and the FairTax,” by Mike S. Adams
“Dr. Adams, you probably aren’t even reading that book. You’re just trying to provoke a debate.”
Of course, I really was reading the book but it gave me a very good idea. I decided to keep carrying it with me everywhere for a week after I finished reading it just to see whether that would be a good way of provoking debate on the issue. The very next day it produced the following exchange with a flat tax supporter:
Supporter of the Flat Tax of Yesterday (SOFTY): Sorry, I support the flat tax.
Adams: How often do you change your underwear?
SOFTY: What?
Adams: I assume you change your underwear every day?
SOFTY: Yes, what the hell does that have to do with it?
Adams: That means you’ve changed underwear 8036 times in the last 22 years.
SOFTY: And?
Adams: And the I.R.S. has changed the tax code 16,000 times in the last 22 years. They change the tax code twice as often as you change underwear. How long do you think a flat tax would remain flat?
SOFTY: (Silence)
Adams: Would you like to borrow my book?
I’m sure SOFTY was still thinking about the FairTax the next day while he was (hopefully) changing his underwear.
This guy has enough money to buy lots of books and just give them away. If enough of us did that even one time it could work. It's a great way to build demand for meaningful tax reform.
Posted by Post Scripts at May 12, 2008 04:21 PM