Indiana's Mark Souder (R - 3rd) Co-Sponsors FairTax Act

As always let me preface my FairTax post by saying that it is my second favorite tax reform plan. My favorite is to repeal all income taxes and replace them with pretty much nothing. But, in the meantime, I consider HR 25, The FairTax, to be the single largest potential transfer of power from government back to voters and taxpayers ever short of an armed insurrection.

When I first got involved with the grass roots FairTax movement in 2004 we had representatives Dan Burton (R - 5th) and Mike Sodrel (formerly R - 9th) as co-sponsors. Under the leadership of then State Director Ron Heilman and some support from Congressman Burton's office at that time, the Indiana team was able to get Rep. Mike Pence (R - 6th) on board. Sodrel ended up losing his seat to Baron Hill (D) but has continued to advocate for this important change to the tax system.

Now, under the leadership of Dan Higgins (and his wife Diana) and with the influx of energy and enthusiasm he and other FairTax leaders in the state have brought, it is exciting to see that Rep. Mark Souder (R - 3rd) has become a co-sponsor of HR 25. Out of the Republican delegation to the House of Representatives, Indiana now has all but Rep. Steve Buyer (4th) on the non-partisan bill as co-sponsors.

Below is a copy of the press announcement that the Indiana FairTax team has put out. I believe that a couple of us are scheduled to spend time with WXNT's Abdul Hakim-Shabazz at 7:30 AM

on Friday, December 11 [2009] (http://www.newstalk1430.com or 1430 AM out of Indianapolis) to talk about the FairTax and progress that is being made in gaining support.

The Indiana FairTax team maintains a site at infairtax.ning.com

FAIRTAX INDIANA

Press Release

CONTACT:

Sean Shepard, Media Contact

Email: sshepard94@gmail.com

317-513-2406

Dan Higgins, State Director

Email: fairtaxindiana@gmail.com

765-346-5029

GRASSROOTS FAIRTAX SUPPORTERS WELCOME ADDITION OF REP. MARK SOUDER (R – 3^rd) AS A CO-SPONSOR

FT. WAYNE, IN – Grassroots activists and supporters from Indiana of the bi-partisan tax reform legislation known as “The FairTax” (H.R. 25) applaud the addition of Congressman Mark Souder of Indiana’s 3^rd Congressional District as a co-sponsor.

Representative Souder joins Representatives Mike Pence (R – 6^th) and Dan Burton (R – 5^th) as co-sponsors of critically needed legislation to restructure the United States tax code from one based on productivity to one based on consumption that will completely un-tax the poor and improve America’s competitiveness in a World economy.

Congressman Souder praised the consistent and persistent efforts of grassroots volunteers and voters who ensured that their support for The FairTax was noticed.

Dan Higgins, State Director of FairTax Indiana, said “The current state of the economy and the need to ensure American competitiveness in the World is causing many to re-examine and embrace The FairTax as the best and most fair reform plan before Congress.”

ABOUT THE FAIRTAX

The FairTax plan is a comprehensive proposal that replaces all federal income and payroll based taxes with an integrated approach including a progressive national retail sales tax, a prebate to ensure no American pays federal taxes on spending up to the poverty level, dollar-for-dollar federal revenue neutrality, and, through companion legislation, the repeal of the 16th Amendment.

The FairTax Act (HR 25, S 296) is nonpartisan legislation. It abolishes all federal personal and corporate income taxes, gift, estate, capital gains, alternative minimum, Social Security, Medicare, and self-employment taxes and replaces them with one simple, visible, federal retail sales tax administered primarily by existing state sales tax authorities.

More information is available at http://www.fairtax.org/

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