This is a great idea for an tax structure. At first I thought it was stupid and you couldn't sell this to me. Then I started listening to Neal Boortz'sshow, and I decided to educate myself.

Neil explains how little people understand the current tax system in our country. To quote neal from his program: "If we had a fair tax (or something similar), Barack Obama would not have been able to use the lie that 95% of American will get a tax cut." The problem is many people confuse payroll taxes with income taxes.

Neal goes through a list of response for the critics of this system. The things I want to hilight are how our government uses the tax code to play favorites, and that the current income tax system subsidizes debt and penalizes savings.

I have no idea if the Fair Tax will ever come to fruition, but all Americans who care about their own liberty should read (or listen) to this book. You'll be able to sniff out the BS artists every election year. Hopefully one day enough of us will wake up and tell the government to go back to your powers that are in the Constitution.

I wish everyone in America would read this book and the first book that Neal Boortz and Congressman Linder wrote about the Fair Tax. This is the best way to fix our economy!!!

Neal Boortz and John Linder have a revolutionary idea with the Fairtax! I believe it is the answer to our country's ills. This is a must read!!

Finally, an easy-to-understand tax policy that can be managed without the onerous, confiscatory arm of the IRS looming. Transparent and free of corporate loop holes how refreshing.

For those that have read the FairTax, and beleive, this is a must have book. In their usual charm, and tenacity, Mr Boortz, and Mr Linder lay out the details of this marvelous plan, and offer information in answering the nay-sayers, and non-believers. For those of us who are advocates here is a tip: purchase 1 copy of each book, and give it to someone you know under the condition if they agree with the idea, they are to do the same for someone else. C'mon folks, get on board, and advocate this plan. Both books explain all there is to know in laymans terms. If you aren't a believer after reading this book, you are ignoring the facts.

As is usually the treatment of any policy issue during a campaign, the ideas presented in FairTax: The Truth - Answering the Critics are cloaked in more than a bit of hyperbole. Most of the following examples of this exaggeration have been mentioned by others. Still, they are worth repeating:

- The IRS will probably not disappear if FairTax is adopted. Some government body will be needed to collect and audit the FairTax proceeds. That organization will likely be the IRS.

- On page 30, the authors state, "The FairTax would eliminate the embedded costs of the American tax code - taxes on capital and labor - from the retail price, allowing corporations and businesses operating in the United States to sell their good and services to the global marketplace with no tax component." However, on several other pages in the book, the authors state that the FairTax would be an embedded component of a product's retail price. Nowhere else in the book do they indicate/imply that products/services sold overseas would be exempt from FairTax. Thus, the claim on page 30 doesn't seem plausible, given the book's other information.

- Several states have a sales tax and an income tax. Most of those states have experienced severe budget problems despite the multiple revenue streams (the best example being California's recent budget ordeal). Consequently, it seems that revenue streams play little part in whether governments can live within their means (that seems to be more a function of controlling spending urges). Thus, it is unlikely that shifting from an income tax to a sales-based FairTax system would lead to widespread budget reform, as is implied by the authors.

Despite these grandiose claims, there is a lot of validity for the arguments that Boortz and Linder present. There is little doubt that the current tax system is stifling economic growth and is in desperate need of an overhaul. The plan that Boortz and Linder present is a carefully crafted policy document that has a very strong likelihood of removing many of the productivity impediments and inequities that exist in the current system. Additionally, Boortz and Linder present generally sound rebuttals to many of the criticisms that have been leveled at the FairTax proposal.

Yes, there is more than a little hype in FairTax: The Truth - Answering The Critics. But, once a reader gets past the hype, the book contains a very sound tax policy within its pages. This policy and arguments presented in the book not only deserve to be read by the tax-paying public, but also deserve to be debated within our legislatures.

Whether or not you like Neal Boortz, you must read this book. It should be required reading for anyone running for office or going into a voting booth.

This tax system is fair and definitely what America needs. It would help all economic levels. The IRS presents more problems to tax payers. The data processing people make incorrect entries and it costs Americans--------mostly small independent business people------thousands of dollars to try to correct the problem. Just when you think it is corrected, you receive another notification that you owe more interest and penalties for a problem you thought was solved. In the event you retire and move-----prepare yourself to hear from IRS again-----------from a new district. The Fair Tax is the way to go for everyone. The truly wealthy will pay their fair share of taxes. I doubt it ever happens as you will have lobbyists working for the Estate planning experts that set up family trusts to protect the money. As most of Congress is very wealthy they will not want to see a Fair Tax----------not even the so called liberals.

Read and pass on!
If everyone understood what this would mean to them, we could force the politicians to switch Federal taxation to the Fair Tax system, and we would all pay a lot less in Federal taxes! No more withholding or tax returns!!!

Yes the subject is a little dry, but if you will read this and the companion book with an open mind, I believe you too will become a fervent Fair Tax supporter. Don't fall into the trap that this is just another giveaway for the wealthy. It is the single best way to tax wealth that I have ever seen. The reason Congress won't do this is it takes away their power and would put their spending under the public microscope. Congress wants to continue their pork barrel spending without having to answer to their boss, the American taxpayer.

This is the first book I read about Fairtax. Then I got the DVD. Some people will not read a book but they will listen as they travel or commute. My husband is one of those people. Now we share one disc at a time with people.
Then I got America's Best Kept Secret: Fairtax Al Ose. Fantastic book!

We have got to spread the word. Do IT!

I'm a conservative who has actually tried to listen to his show, but he really does come across like somebody's hostile ex-wife. Cry, complain, moan(then repeat.)

The Fair Tax is a great book for anyone who has never bothered to take an economics course, nor has done any independent reading. If your source of information is talk-radio, then this book is for you.

The biggest problem with the whole thing is that everyone's taxes would go SKY-HIGH (according to studies done and reported in the WSJ and CNN Money.)

I'd rather see a reduction in my taxes -- eliminate big government, reduce the military to a defense only capability (why police the world), and tax corporations that outsource jobs overseas.

When the Americans For Fair Taxation (AFFT) people first set out to reform taxation, they began doing research to find out what the American public would consider the most fair tax. To their surprise, what they found that the American people wanted a consumption tax, that would fall heaviest on the richest taxpayers and contain safeguards for the poorest taxpayers. And so, after a good deal of hard work, the AFFT came up with the Fair Tax Act, which was crafted to be fair, work for the American economy (not against it!), and meet the needs of Americans.

Not surprisingly, the Fair Tax Act immediately came under fire from those who opposed it because they did not want to see a change in the way taxes are collected and spent, or they were afraid that the Fair Tax was actually an unfair tax in sheep's clothing. To answer these critics, authors Neal Boortz and Congressman John Linder wrote this book, which explains the Fair Tax, and defends it.

Overall, I found this to be an interesting and rather convincing book. When I first saw the book, I assumed it was speaking about a so-called flat tax. That's right, I had never heard of the Fair Tax Act. Well, this book certainly convinced me. I now consider myself a Fair Tax supporter. Get this well-written book, and see for yourself just what the Fair Tax is all about...and, I think that you will be convinced as well.

This book's authors ask us to hold their book to a higher standard and it's this standard I use to score their book. Besides submitting that their version of a national consumption tax, aka "the FairTax", is worthy of our consideration and therefore worth purchasing and reading this book to enlighten the public on the structure of their tax scheme proposal and its predicted effects; the authors have one other stated objective with two aspects. The first is to arm its proponents with arguments to refute FairTax opponents and the second is to convince those ignorant of or in need of more data to convert to being a FairTax supporter given what they hope are an overwhelming set of arguments posed within their book.

The quality of the authors approach to framing their argument and the quality of their assertions and arguments are outstanding in all regards with two exceptions, one minor, and one major. The authors shy away from partisan politics and spend little time noting that most of its support comes from grassroots Republicans that stretch across the party's ideological spectrum, from libertarian/moderates like myself to social conservatives best exemplified by Sean Hannity and Mike Huckabee, while Democrats and liberals are either mundanely ignorant of this proposal or oppose it given their somewhat false perception it's a regressive tax. Instead Boortz and Linder focus on making an argument that America needs tax reform and the FairTax would be the ultimate reform if one's objective were to optimize economic growth in an environment that increases optimal job opportunities. I applaud the authors for taking this approach; we need more political debates where the context is one of ideas without false assertions, rhetoric, or outlandish predictions. In fact, I think the authors are overly modest in the explicit benefits they argue would occur with the FairTax, I believe its benefits would extend well past their stated hopes.

If you agree that tax reform is a strategic requirement for America's continued success than I think this book easily meets the standard test on whether this book is worth its purchase price and your time. It's well written, entertaining, comprehensive, easy to understand, modest in its predictions, and honestly frames all their opponents' best arguments but one, with solid rebuttals to all the arguments listed.

The two criticisms I have of this book's approach are the authors sometimes dropping the names of FairTax proponents that do not share the authors' high standards for political argumentation, thereby risking losing readers or adherents who will be justifiably suspicious of the authors' intellectual integrity and honesty. I cringed when they referenced Sean Hannity as a FairTax proponent at least twice. The authors concede they need more grassroots support; I believe they need more support from our country's elite to improve their visibility and leverage the influence these people command in the public forum of ideas. Sean Hannity's inability to make reasoned arguments based on valid assertions is well known by thinking Americans. It's tough to find more than a handful of media pundits more dishonest and ideologically delusional than Sean Hannity. The authors need to trust their argument and resist the temptation of name-dropping media pundits who influence large numbers of adherents, especially partisan hacks given their adherents are sheep and will gladly follow along while the FairTax movement currently suffers from getting independent thinkers who require evidence and rational arguments. I would submit that the book is better than the names it drops and invite people who object to people like Hannity to forgive them and consider their arguments anyway.

My second objection is a major one and reason for dropping the book's rating two stars. While the authors correctly inform their readers that many economists have portrayed a national consumption tax in a favorable light on some tax reform factors, the authors and the movement have failed to gain peer-acceptance amongst economists to support their movement. The authors' first FairTax book and this book rely heavily on a 1997 report published by the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation where some economists claimed that a national consumption tax would be the optimal approach for economic growth - though many that argued for this prediction had other objections to this sort of tax for other reasons not noted in this book. In fact, they mention only a handful of economists in support of a FairTax and none co-authored the book, which I believe would have helped immensely in the marketplace of ideas, especially within academia.

If the FairTax really is the optimal tax reform approach, why haven't we seen any momentum by the functional experts we rely on for the promotion of economic policies? The authors do indirectly address part of my rhetorical question with their appendix, which is a brief, non-comprehensive, non-technical rebuttal of President Bush 43's position on tax reform (not) via his 2005 Advisory Panel on Tax Reform report. Linder and Boortz's rebuttal to Bush and the panel's report, as far as it goes, easily discredits the President's position as one steeped in logical fallacies and gross mischaracterizations of the FairTax movement. In fact, if you've read their first book on the FairTax and understand their position, you too can easily rip the President's idiotic position on tax reform, no need for even in a bachelor's in Economics, it's really that idiotic.

However, given that we know the President is an ideological hack who put constraints on his panel to insure the panel's results did not challenge the status quo on tax policy and the panel acted like dutiful sheep, the question left begging still hangs out there. What are the objections that informed economists unconstrained by political pressure have and what are the authors' responses to those arguments? From this perspective, the book is lacking. There are some references to economists who oppose the FairTax who've made objections out of ignorance, but no illumination of informed objections are considered.

Lastly in terms of objections, I believe the authors should be more open to consideration of using a tax rate on top of the sales price rather than incoporation into the price. While I understand this increases the challenge of selling the tax since a 30% tax sounds a lot worse than a 23% tax, incorporating the tax into the price is contrary to one of the biggest benefits of the tax - transparency. While the authors do a great job of arguing that nearly all Americans, including this reader, are clueless regarding how much we pay in taxes while the FairTax provides much needed transparency, by incorporating the tax into a price they harm the very cause they are promoting.

I also believe the authors avoid a comprehensive rebuttal to the charge that the FairTax is regressive. I believe this is the only argument they avoid besides properly rebutting economist peer-acceptance. While they are correct that the FairTax's prebate plan will provide even more tax relief to poor people living at or below the welfare level than the current income tax scheme, they don't address how people who spend above the subsistence level will be affected in terms of their share of taxes relative to those in the top echelons of spenders. I happen to believe that even if it is somewhat regressive for an earner of, say, $50K/year relative to an earner making $500K/yr. in terms of what percentage of their income goes to taxes, I think the career opportunities that would be opened up for lower wage earners would immensely benefit them relative to the current tax scheme that acts as a disincentive for increased domestic capital investment in a global market. Would a middle class earner really care if he pays a higher rate relative to another earner if his net income after taxes goes up, say, 50% due to increased economic opportunities?

So while I remain a supporter of the FairTax, I can't go whole hog in support given the high quality of their falsification efforts do not extend to the very functional experts our country depends on to provide guidance to policy makers. Still, this book is a great primer on the issue and should help defend the idea from people who prefer rhetoric over reason and certainly achieves their objective that this proposal is worthy of serious consideration.

Everyone should read this and decide for themselves if this is the answer to tax reform.

Good job guys. I've been supporting the FairTax for several years and this was a great follow-up book to answer the many questions asked.

Honest and sensible responses to myths and criticisms surrounding the FairTax. Chapter 12 brings it all home by describing what life would have been like had we been living with the FairTax all along, and how our lives would change if a new system of taxation (our present system of income & payroll taxes) were implemented. The difference is eye opening and has made me a proponent of the FairTax.

Answers many questions raised or not explained sufficiently in the oirginal "FAIRTAX" book. I am using both of these books to convince many acquaintences to support these concepts. The biggest problem is convincing politicians that they need to make changes good for their constituents, and not just for themselves and their re-election effforts.

Think about all the babyboomers retiring in the near future and all of them collecting their Social Security. They will not be receiving what they paid in; that money has been paid to current retirees. To make matters worse, the retired babyboomers will not being paying INTO Social Security ANYMORE. The taxpayers that are left will be footing BOTH bills; retirees currently collecting Social Security and the millions of babyboomers soon to be collecting. How many of us will be able to afford the increase in taxes just to fund Social Security? The FairTax is the only solution in that the revenue can come from many other sources that the income tax is not capturing. Plus, by boosting the economy and bringing our jobs back from overseas, there will be more people paying the FairTax.

After reading this book all of my concerns are answered. I am now a part of this movement. If our country doesn't pass the Fair Tax we will be in trouble. I srongly suggest for everyone to read it and then give it to a friend.

This is another "Great Read" and we "ALL" Should read it and get involved to save our Great Country.

This book will answer critics and give you even more comfort about The FairTax. It answers legitimate objections, dispels stupid garbage, and overcomes opponents of The FairTax who have a vested interest in keeping our present outdated, unconstitutional, and demeaning tax system.

The present income tax is ridiculous, no one understands it, not even IRS. The Fair Tax is what anyone would consider fair and the book explains the truth about it and about criticisms about it. A fair tax bill has been introduced in the senate and house and it is time for tax reform.....time to read about a way to tax that has been researched to be good for the country, for bringing back jobs.

This is an amazing and powerful idea, well-researched by an impressive array of experts. The only people in this country that don't fervently want to change our tax system are those that are using it to abuse us. Certainly that includes most politicians and lobbyists. This simple plan will give us back a fairer, better, more prosperous, and freer country. It's a very American idea!

The fair tax, however economically feasible, however fair, and however liberating to the American polity, won't become a reality for two reasons: the liberal establishment won't allow it. And what's worse, WE won't allow it. Please try to understand: the fair tax is not about taxation at all. It's about a worldview, a way of thinking, which we are unwilling and unable to scuttle. How so?
Everything in this world requires money to exist, whether that money comes honestly, or by coercion, extortion, theft or embezzlement. The punitive, progressive income tax is the very reason for being for the ossified, corrupt, morally threadbare ideology we know as liberalism. Take it away, and the whole structure collapses under its own dead weight. So why not let it? Because the virus of liberalism has permeated too deeply into our institutions and over too long a period of time in order to be surgically excised in this way. And the surgery would inflict more pain than we're willing to bear. For example, everyone knows (or should know by now) that the way liberals get anything done is by ignoring or effacing the traditional concept of separation of powers. If you can't get it done in the legislature, then go to the courts. But corruption of the judiciary goes well beyond constitutional issues and the Supreme Court. But there is a single common factor: redistribution of income, in order to achieve a "fair" and "equitable" state of affairs. Needless to say,"fairness" and "equity" have nothing to do with "compassion" or "justice" as these terms are commonly understood. Justice and fairness aside, why are we now hagridden by a tort system that is unpredictable and capricious? Because it can sidestep the legislature in bringing about a redistribution of wealth, by fiat. The more astute among us lament it all the time, but what is being done about it? Liberalism's fundamental premise is loathing and contempt for common sense and the ability of people to run their own lives. Barack Obama's disparaging remarks about the voters in Pennsylvania weren't inadvertent or ill-advised; he really meant what he said. Liberals are not nice people; Obama is not a nice person. He's an upstart tyrant who, thanks to our gullibility, has been pretty much getting his way.
Make no mistake: whether there should be or will be an alternative system of taxation has nothing to do with the merits of any that is proposed. So long as the American public can even tolerate the likes of Hillary or Obama, and so long as people think of Oprah Winfrey as a "spiritual leader," they will not be ready to think critically enough to bring about the scuttling of the progressive income tax. But there is one ironclad law of nature which no one can set aside: people get precisely the kind of government they deserve. And the abject slavery which goes by the name of the progressive income tax is just what we deserve, simply because we have tolerated it. There may be redemption in religion, but there is none in politics. When you make a mistake, you bear the inexorable consequences.

The fair tax, however feasible, however fair, and however liberating to the American public, won't become a reality for a single reason: the liberal establishment won't allow it. Everything in this world requires money to exist, whether that money comes honestly, or by coercion, extortion, theft or embezzlement. The punitive, progressive income tax is the very reason for being for the ossified, corrupt, morally threadbare ideology we know as liberalism. Take it away, and the whole structure collapses under its own dead weight. The virus of liberalism has permeated too deeply into our institutions and over too long a period of time in order to be surgically excised in this way. For example, everyone knows (or should know by now) that the way liberals get anything done is by ignoring or effacing the traditional concept of separation of powers. If you can't get it done in the legislature, then go to the courts. But corruption of the judiciary goes well beyond constitutional issues and the Supreme Court. But there is a single common factor: redistribution of income, in order to achieve a "fair" and "equitable" state of affairs. Why does anyone believe that we are now hagridden by a tort system that is unpredictable and capricious? Because it can sidestep the legislature in bringing about a redistribution of wealth, by fiat. Everyone complains about it all the time, but what is being done about it?
Make no mistake: whether there should be or will be an alternative system of taxation has nothing to do with the merits of any that is proposed. So long as the American public can even tolerate the likes of Hillary or Obama, and so long as people can think of Oprah Winfrey as a "spiritual leader," they will not be ready to think critically enough to bring about the scuttling of the progressive income tax. But there is one ironclad law of nature which no one can set aside: people get precisely the kind of government they deserve. And the abject slavery which goes by the name of the progressive income tax is just what we deserve, simply because we have tolerated it.

I read this book and said "it's about time" Americans wake up and put an end to the IRS.

As a long time supporter of the fair tax I read this with great anticipation..

I like a lot of what it has to say and just hope we can move to a system close to exactly such as this.

This book is similiar to Fox News. It is neither "Fair or Balanced."

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Very good book. It really does answer the opposition. You can read it without reading the first book but you'll miss the history of the income tax. Buy it.

I don't recommend this book for those just trying to learn about the fair tax. Too often, the author will raise an issue that is important to the reader, and then move on without actually addressing the issue. If you have questions you need answered before you can buy into the fair tax, this is not a good choice. Frequently, the book seemed to be more about blowing smoke then providing a clear, reasonable, and coherent argument.

There isn't a single down side to the Fair Tax. The only reason we don't have it is because it would take away from Congress their ability to social engineer through the tax code, and it would also do away with the reason for most lobbyists' jobs. This concept makes so much sense.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE (that's another thing the Fair Tax does).

A well researched tool for those who feel that we desperately need to revolutionize our US tax policy. Those who love thier country will be inspired to share the vision of this movement and to get involved in some personal way toward implementing it.
- Hugh E. Nichols
Daleville, Virginia

Great book! This book rebukes the nay-sayers about the "FairTax". It will truly revolutionalize our broken taxation system.

As a FairTax supporter and reader of their first book, I found their responses to the critics to be supportive of the program's merits. Unfortunately, that took about one third of the book with the remaining two thirds consisting primarily of repetitious sales propaganda. The first book was really worthwhile and made me a much stronger FairTax supporter. This book, while helpful, was churned out as much to take financial advantage of the prior success as to present any thorough response to criticism. If you are already sold on the FairTax, read this also to strengthen your debate with the critics. FairTax, The Truth should not be expected to convert the non-believers though. Get them a copy of The FairTax Book for that.

Neal Boortz is a knowledgeable person and has co-authored a book that everyone needs to read. We are on a downward slope with current tax system and this is the best solution to the problem at hand. I hope that the people in Washington will take notice and consider this alternative.

A must read especially as we near April 15th. For anyone who feels the current tax system is in need of a drastic overhaul this book's for you. Boortz makes a logical case for the Fair Tax and answers many of its critics. I now push the idea of the Fair tax to everyone I know.

Everyone in America should read this book, our government is too big and this would solve lots of problems.

This is a great follow up book for those who know about the fairtax, and are already fairly well informed, and yet still have doubts. Actually, this book works well for those who are brand new to the subject also.

The brilliant thing about this book is how the authors have worked to make sure the book is entertaining, as well as factual. (I think Boorts is the main one responsible for that... the factual part is due to the other two authers).

If your still not sure about the fairtax, or if you are new to the whole idea, and want to check it out. This is your book!

Excellent book! Answers all of the questions the critics and naysayers have against the best tax reform for the taxpayer and the economy.

The FairTax just might work, but the extreme right-wing authors have added a loop-hole for the wealthy: the purchase of existing homes is exempt from the FairTax. If someone earns $30,000,000 and buys a $30,000,000 mega-mansion with it, not one penny of that money goes to help the American people. They may then purchase a $10,000,000 beach-front vacation property and go tax-free again.

Some might argue that people of all incomes may enjoy this benefit. But there's a big difference between a working class family buying a small home because they need shelter and a multi-millionaire buying a luxurious mansion for recreational and show-off-to-the-world purposes.

Others might argue that a real estate purchase is an investment, but it's really the purchase of an enjoyable commodity that happens to appreciate because population grows while supply of land does not. It's nothing like a capital investment which benefits the economy and brings money to America.

For the FairTax to be fair, exemptions like this one must be eliminated.

Also, the authors fail to address the fact that Americans, who will do anything to avoid paying taxes, will seek to spend money outside the U.S. in order to avoid the FairTax. The wealthy already spend a lot of money abroad. This behavior will decrease tax revenue and export America's wealth.

Worse yet, the authors of this book promote the great Republican lie that good, hard-working people get rich and that everyone else is stupid and lazy. On p. 215, they make a reference to the "rich", and follow it with the statement, "If you work hard, that means you." That's funny, I know people who work 60-70 hours per week and struggle to provide basics for their families. According to the authors, they should be rich.

Overall, the FairTax is an idea worth studying, but beware of the one-sided, pro-upper class arguments of its creators. Someone in touch with working class America needs make adjustments to the FairTax so that it's actually fair.

Excellent book that expands on the original FairTax book. This is a must read for anyone who is tired of being taxed to death and who wants to be more informed with other options.

I really enjoyed "The FairTax Book". Since this book followed up on the great plan, it seemed like a logical purchase. I'm not unhappy with it.

Every True American should read this. Public schools should have it in their libraries.

Haven't finished book yet, but find it very interesting and it sounds like a solid common sense approach to a very big and unmanagable problem.

If you're looking for a great understanding of the fair tax you couldn't find a better book to get it from. It has many facts that will benefit you in more ways than one.

The CD production was very good. If you like the way Boortz delivers his radio program you will like the delivery on the CD. The book does what is advertised, that is it answers the critics of the Fair Tax. I have read the book, The Fair Tax and answering the critics speaks to all the cons, even when there is not a good answer or a weakness'.

I rate this CD series with an A+ and highly recommend it to people who are pro or con on the Fair Tax concept.

Dennis Sidwell

great, prompt service by Amazon as usual. Written to clarify misconceptions and mis-information about this proposal. It accomplished that.

As a Fair Tax supporter it was great to read Neal's responses to the critics on this plan. Now I have the ammunition to repel opposition from friends and acquaintances.

I read this book on my flight. A great book. It answers all the fair tax questions that one may have. Well written.

I have read this book and its predecessor "The Fair Tax". I purchased this book as a gift for my sister in Orlando Fl. She had introduced me to the concept of The Fair Tax. Without a doubt, this is an idea that can save our economy and put us back to a world trade leader in exports, not imports, creating jobs and eliminating our onerous tax sysyem. Our politicians with their self-serving interests will probably fight it and likely defeat it. (H.R 25 and related bills pending in Congress). Sadly, partisan politics have brought us to where we are now. If we can overcome them, this concept has a chance. More people should read these books.