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["Johnny Gregory" <johnnyg8@bellsouth.net>]

FairTax NewsletterFriends,

  The upcoming FairTax www.fairtax.org will replace the income-based tax and 
is now endorsed by America's leading economists and Fed Chairman Alan 
Greenspan even gave it a thumbs up. Please take a moment and forward this to 
everyone on your email lists and keep this info moving until we have no 
income taxes and can keep what we earn, deciding our tax level individually 
based on consumables. No "returns" to fill in by April 15 anymore, saving the 
country and all of billions of hours and dollars. Read about this new form of 
taxation which obsoletes the antiquated "tax code" and let's you keep 
whatever you earn.Get involved in sharing this message now also endorsed by 
much of Congress.

Thanks,

Your friend,

Johnny Gregory
----- Original Message ----- 
From: FairTax 
To: johnnyg8@bellsouth.net 
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 7:35 PM
Subject: FairTax Newsletter


           
                  FairTax finally produces an E-Newsletter! 

                  Hello, Johnny:


                       
                  Letter from the Executive Director: 

                  Many of you have asked for an e-mail newsletter. And it has 
taken us way too long to get it to you, but we are finally here. Send it to 
your friends! 

                  This is the first edition, in honor of the upcoming dreaded 
April 15th deadline. We hope to add new features to this e-newsletter soon 
but we wanted you to get a copy today with all of the latest news! Thank you 
for all of your contributions of time and funds. We are closer than we have 
ever been to passing the FairTax. 

                  Latest News!! Nearly one hundred economists nationwide 
endorse the FairTax in a letter to the House, Senate, Treasury, tax reform 
panel and the President. 
                  Nearly seven months ago an idea was born in the mind of a 
FairTax supporter who is an economics professor at the University of 
Virginia. He wanted to see more economists publicly endorse the FairTax 
concept. That idea became a project that has finally come to fruition. 
Working with top regional director Bill Rollyson and over 40 volunteers 
nationwide, they built a database of economists from leading universities 
across the country. They began contacting them and produced an endorsement 
letter for the FairTax. Nearly 100 economists, one of whom is a Nobel Prize 
winner, have now endorsed, specifically, the FairTax HR 25 and S 25, in 
writing. This endorsement letter was delivered to the doorsteps of every 
single tax aide on Capitol Hill at the beginning of this month. We also made 
sure the President, his tax reform panel, and Treasury Secretary Snow had a 
copy. And the media. Please take a moment to view the letter here: 
http://www.fairtax.org/eco_endorsements.html. We have another letter going 
out and hope to have more endorsements coming in soon! Stay tuned. 


                  FairTax headquarters Heather Buchanan and Jonathan Read 
enjoy the fruits of your labor. 
                  Grassroots Update. 
                  Over 650 letter writers engage local media with letters to 
the editor. The Presidents panel hearings have afforded us many opportunities 
in the media. In March, Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan's favorable 
comments made over 700 major newspapers nationwide. Though Greenspan did not 
say the magic words "FairTax", we were listed as America's leading 
consumption tax by both Wall Street Journal and CNN recent polls. The day 
after those hearings, polls showed up all over the Internet and we won them 
all decisively. We took full advantage of this opportunity and over 300 
volunteers went to work the next day writing letters to the editor of 
newspapers nationwide. We were able to get out over 10,000 letters to the 
editor in less than three days! These letter writers joined the 350 letter 
writers who were already writing excellent letters, bringing us to over 650 
letter writers to news publications and adding more volunteers writing 
letters daily. Thanks to all of you for your help. Special thanks to Georgia 
volunteer Larry Whittington who is now heading up the project nationwide. If 
you would like assistance in writing a letter to the editor please contact 
Larry at larry.whittington@earthlink.net. 

                  Volunteers will be working post office media events 
nationwide on April 15th, educating American taxpayers on the FairTax. 
                  FairTax gatherings are planned nationwide on April 15th in 
the following locations; Phoenix, Arizona; Eugene/ Springfield Oregon; Fort 
Myers, Florida; Dade City, Florida; Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; Elbow Lake, 
Minnesota; Alexandria, Minnesota, Joplin, Missouri; Bloomington,Indiana; 
Cary, North Carolina; Columbia, South Carolina; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and 
more. Please contact Gregory McNeill at Gregory.mcneill@fairtax.org if you 
would like to get more information. 

                  DC update: Tax panel says to the American public: "Help is 
possible!" The FairTax organization is closely following the President's Tax 
Reform 
                  Panel's hearings, but not because we expect a blanket 
endorsement. The panel's signal benefit is in letting the American public 
know there is hope. Something can be done about the current system. Help is 
possible. Their first public hearing outside of Washington - in Tampa, 
Florida - was dominated by small businessmen stating emphatically, - "Just 
tell us the rules, don't change them, and leave us alone!" Former Ways & 
Means Chairman Sam Gibbons, retired to Tampa, was equally emphatic in his 
demand for complete replacement with a consumption tax. The next hearings in 
New Orleans, and following that in San Francisco, were dominated by strong 
talk of more benefits of a consumption tax - albeit tempered with the 
political difficulties associated with a pure replacement, such as the 
FairTax. FairTax grassroots support is backing them up. At the most recent 
tax panel hearing in San Francisco, volunteers met with tax panel members and 
reportedly were told by former Senator Connie Mack,"We see your people 
everywhere we go." You all should be commended but there is much, much more 
work to do. 

                  2005's first congressional tax aide education briefing a 
success. 
                  Last year, thanks to hundreds of calls by volunteers, 
nearly 105 House and Senate offices - accounting for 20 percent of the 
Congress - were represented at our first-ever seminar. This year we had a 
smaller room but were again treated to a standing room only event. So far, 
our invitations were focused more on the Republican side. Specifically, tax 
aides new to DC, tax aides who had not attended the previous tax aide event 
last year, and the aides on the Senate side. Over 100 volunteers participated 
by calling the offices of their elected officials. Argus Group principal and 
well known tax bill author David Burton and esteemed economist from Boston 
University(and one of our original research team members) Dr. Laurence 
Kotlikoff addressed the DC staffers on the specifics of the FairTax plan and 
how it could win constituencies. We distributed over 60 briefing books 
addressing how the FairTax met the needs of the Republican Party leadership, 
the Democrat party leadership, and the Presidential Tax Panel requirements. 
We are planning many private, one-on-one meetings with Democrat and 
Republican tax aides for later this month. We hope to have introduced and 
briefed either publicly or privately every single tax aide in DC on the 
FairTax before summer begins. If you would like to help us set up one of 
these private meetings or attend one of these in D.C. or in the district 
please e-mail genie@fairtax.org. She will be glad to assist you. Your 
congressman prefers to hear from his constituents! Remember, they work for 
you! 

                  Media Update 
                  In the last 30 days, we have been privileged to see a 
George Will opinion editorial syndicated nationwide, a Kotlikoff opinion 
editorial in the Wall Street Journal, and many more. These editorials 
specifically addressed the benefits of the FairTax and were published in the 
most well known papers in the country. Reporters from CNN, Fox, and major 
publications are calling us to ask for our input -- including an extensive 
interview with INC Magazine. This is very exciting for our staff and 
volunteers. Times have changed and that is thanks to you for your service to 
the cause! Replacing the income tax with the FairTax is a dream many of you 
have been working on for nearly a decade. It is now becoming a reality. We 
are seeing significant progress thanks to your hard work. To keep up to date, 
we want to take a moment to make sure you know of these places on the website 
where you can view recent news stories and videos. Videos can be found at 
http://fairtaxvolunteer.org/news/video.html and recent news stories can be 
found at http://www.fairtaxvolunteer.org/news/. 

                  New white paper available: How the FairTax helps religious 
institutions both raise funding and speak their minds, freely!
                  Go to http://www.fairtax.org/pdfs/Religious_Donations.pdf 
to read one of our latest white papers. 

                  Get Involved!


                    a.. Sign the Petition 
                    b.. Donate to the FairTax 
                    c.. Write your Representative 
                 
                  Thanks for your good works,
                  Tom 

                  Thomas A. Wright
                  Executive Director
                  FairTax.org
                  tom@fairtax.org  

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