Chairman's Report cover art

All Episodes

Chairman's Report — 361 episodes

#
Title
1

Want to Celebrate Workers--Pass the FAIRtax

2

Effective Tax Rates

3

Incentives Matter

4

Why America Needs the FAIRtax

5

How the FAIRtax Makes the Wealthy Pay Their Fair Share

6

If Your State Kills its Income Tax, It Needs a Prebate

7

The Answer Hiding in Plain Sight

8

Smith and Jefferson at 250

9

Bezos' Bold Idea - Catchy, but It Won't Solve the Problem

10

Our Predisposition to Evade Taxes

11

The Worst Kind of Taxes

12

How the FAIRtax Could Help Reduce Inflation

13

Why the FAIRtax is More Ethical Than the Income Tax

14

Let's Pit Americans Against Each Other (Part 2)

15

Let's Pit Americans Against Each Other (Part 1)

16

Excise Taxes in the United States

17

Why the FAIRtax Taxes Government Entities

18

Social Security Needs Money - Who Will Pay?

19

The FAIRtax Makes Buying a Home Easier

20

More Lipstick on a Pig

21

How a Tariff Fight Created the Income Tax

22

Missouri Looks at Replacing Its State Income Tax

23

Life Without the Federal Income Tax

24

The US Lost $2.2 Trillion to Tax Breaks

25

Social Media Influencers and What is a Business Deduction?

26

What Happens to Various Groups when the FAIRtax Passes?

27

The Income Tax - A Rigged System

28

The Council of Economic Advisors Supports Consumption Taxes

29

Internal, External and Effective Tax Rates Understanding the Difference

30

How Federal Taxes Inflate the Price of Everything You Buy

31

The VAT - How it Works and How Fraudsters Drain the System

32

The $2Trillion Mirage

33

How a Consumption Tax Differs from an Income Tax

34

Save Social Security and Reduce the National Debt

35

President Trump, Replace the Income Tax with the FAIRtax

36

An (Artificially) Intelligent Choice

37

What Happens When the US is the World's Tax Haven?

38

Happy Thanksgiving

39

Keeping Your Whole Paycheck

40

Would William of Occam Prefer the FAIRtax or the Income Tax?

41

Senator Cotton's OPT Fair Tax Act

42

More Lipstick on a Pig

43

The FAIRtax Will Not Make Prices Rise

44

No Tax on Tips - Simple Until Congress Got Involved

45

The FAIRtax and America's Youth

46

The IRS Is the Least Liked Federal Agency

47

The Cost of the Federal Income Tax System

48

No, Economics Is Not Too Complicated for Us

49

The FAIRtax Experiment, Have No Fear

50

The FAIRtax and Rental Property Ownership

51

Celebrating the Contributions of Workers

52

Misrepresenting Adam Smith

53

The FAIRtax and Really Small Business

54

Which Is Better for Business?

55

Enjoy Your Benefits Until They Expire

56

The FAIRtax and Border Security

57

The FAIRtax and Reconciliation

58

Some Hidden Gems and a Bright Future

59

The FAIRtax and Freedom on This Independence Day

60

The FAIRtax It's Big and It's Beautiful

61

It's Time to End the IRS's License to Hunt

62

Checking All the Democrat Boxes

63

When Will the IRS Audit the Pope?

64

The FAIRtax and the Spending Equilibrium

65

The Scorpion and the Turtle

66

Government Spending and the FAIRtax

67

Tax Compliance Costs Us Over $546 Billion Annually

68

Goodbye Mississippi Income Tax

69

Be Smart Pay Zero Taxes

70

Tennessee Resolution HJR 17

71

The FAIRtax - Finally, Modernization

72

Mandatory Taxation is Fractional Slavery

73

The FAIRtax - Seniors Love It

74

Professor Glenn Reynolds and Abolishing the Income Tax

75

The FAIRtax - The Ultimate Green Bill

76

Was Your Tax Return Leaked?

77

The FAIRtax Will Help Balance the Federal Budget

78

How Could This Happen?

79

The FAIRtax Democracy vs Bureaucracy

80

The Berlin Wall and the Income Tax

81

A Tax for Trump and America

82

A Bridge Too Far?

83

Federalist 21, President Trump and Eliminating the Income Tax

84

The Cost of Federal Regulations - Especially the Income Tax

85

2025 - The Year the Income Tax and the IRS are Abolished?

86

Will People Support Getting Rid of the Income Tax?

87

The FAIRtax vs. Our Growing National Debt

88

Trump Wants to Abolish the Income Tax

89

Know Your Enemy and Know Yourself

90

President Trump Is Our Champion for the FAIRtax

91

Mark Cuban Knows Kamela Harris Better Than She Knows Herself

92

Some Truth About Who Pays Federal Taxes

93

Trump's Tax Plan Will Be Fine

94

Raising the Corporate Income Tax Makes No Sense

95

The Social Pressure Index

96

We Won't Tax This Income - How Do You Like Me Now?

97

The FAIRtax Will Force a Sane Immigration Policy

98

The Bipartisan Itch to Tax Behavior

99

Celebrating Workers

100

We Get Less of What We Tax

101

Senators Blast IRS Power Grab

102

The Emperor Has No Clothes

103

Senator Ernst Demands that the IRS Follow the Law

104

The Complexity of the Income Tax

105

The FAIRtax, not tariffs

106

Another state level FAIRtax?

107

The Moore Decision - Bad for Taxpayers Good for the FAIRtax

108

The FAIRtax and Freedom

109

Annihilation

110

Linder's Letter

111

Why Taxing Corporations is a Bad Idea

112

Commissioner Werfel Demands More Money

113

Presidential Campaigns and the FAIRtax

114

The FAIRtax and the National Debt

115

The IRS Is Using AI to Spy on You

116

National FAIRtax Day

117

Eight Things We Could Change About Tax Day

118

Why the FAIRtax Works

119

It's OK to Break the Law If the Elites Agree with the Lawbreaker

120

We Now Know the Real Reason

121

Hidden Taxes. Another Reason Why DC Loves the Income Tax

122

Mike Huckabee Continues to Promote the FAIRtax

123

A Great New Book

124

Your Tax Return May Be on Your Neighbor's Laptop

125

FAIRtax Q&A with John Linder

126

What Does Artificial Intelligence Think of the FAIRtax?

127

DC Doubletalk - Americans Don't Believe You

128

Secrets and Lies the DC Elites Tell Us about the Income Tax System

129

The Way to Sell Elimination of the State Income Tax

130

Morality and the FAIRtax

131

President Trump You Don't Need Tariffs - You Need the FAIRtax

132

Rudy Giuliani Takes Advantage of the Income Tax Code

133

Comparing the Value Added Tax and the FAIRtax

134

The FAIRtax - Show Me the Man

135

FAIRtax Testimony Before a Congressional Committee

136

Federal Budgeting After the FAIRtax - What a Difference!

137

School Vouchers Are Not Taxed Under the FAIRtax

138

The Reason Social Security and Medicare Are Going Broke

139

The FAIRtax.- The Best Protection for Your Confidential Data

140

Ensuring the Solvency of Social Security

141

How to Collect Taxes from the Super Wealthy

142

Tax Avoidance is Legal, Tax Evasion is Criminal

143

It's Time to End the Dirty Dozen

144

Meet Your New IRS Auditor

145

The Law Doesn't Apply to the Connected People

146

Unless the Supreme Court Stops Them, Congress Will Pick Our Pockets Even More

147

The Tax Code--A Tool for Social Engineering

148

The FAIRtax Deserves a Look

149

The IRS Free File System and its Real Goal

150

The Wrong Allocation of Resources

151

More Problems at the IRS

152

Responding to Inaccurate Reporting

153

Income Tax Laws Don't Apply to the DC Elites

154

Armed IRS Agents Raid a Gun Shop

155

The FAIRtax, the Federal Debt and Inflation

156

Thomas Jefferson Revisits America

157

IRS Agent Used Fake Name to Target Ohio Taxpayer

158

IRS Backdates Documents--A Felony

159

The Supreme Court Exposes More IRS Abusive Powers

160

No Money for Retirement? Enact the FAIRtax

161

Governor DeSantis Has Joined the Fight for Freedom from the IRS

162

We Need a Pro-Taxpayer Tax Code

163

The Insiders in DC Hate the FAIRtax

164

Rent Seeking

165

Strength Lies Not in Defense, but in Attack

166

Ten Reasons Why Democrats Should Support the FAIRtax

167

The DC Magicians

168

What Are Your Chances of Being Audited?

169

Another Economist Endorses the FAIRtax

170

It's Time to Slay the IRS

171

Will the Additional IRS Funding Lower the Tax Gap?

172

The FAIRtax vs. the Flat Tax

173

The FAIRtax Will Benefit All Americans

174

Tax Preparation Companies Busted!

175

The Income Tax is Unfair to Blacks

176

Is the FAIRtax Fair?

177

The FAIRtax is Back

178

The Lies and Untruths in Attacks on the FAIRtax

179

The IRS and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

180

Want to Save Social Security? Pass the FAIRtax

181

Another Unnecessary Burden

182

The FAIRtax and New Product Purchases

183

Senator Whitehouse Demonstrates Why the IRS Must Go

184

President Trump's Tax Returns - An Unnecessary Soap Opera

185

Math is (Apparently) Complex, the FAIRtax Is Not

186

The Transition to the FAIRtax

187

Voting When the FAIRtax Is Passed - A Major Change

188

The 90% and the FAIRtax

189

With the FAIRtax, Federal Incentive Credits Will Work Better

190

How Long Would It Take to Find an Honest Man in DC?

191

Why Has the FAIRtax Not Become Law?

192

The IRS - Agents of the Police State

193

The Insanity of DC Thinking

194

$80 Billion to the IRS - WHAT!

195

Labor Day

196

The FAIRtax vs. the Income Tax - Continuity vs. Chaos

197

The McCabe/Comey IRS Audits

198

The FAIRtax and Literacy

199

Really Save Social Security and Medicare - Pass the FAIRtax

200

The FAIRtax in a Recession

201

How Do You Spell Relief?

202

Congress Gives Their Staffs Double Digit Raises

203

A Fresh Black Eye for the IRS

204

Happy Fourth of July

205

Atlas Shrugged and the FAIRtax

206

The Supply Chain Crisis and the Income Tax

207

We Told You So

208

Stop the Hidden Payoffs

209

Cancel Culture and the FAIRtax

210

The Tax Foundation Is Advocating for Sales Taxes

211

Harris Poll on Taxation--Frustration and Distrust

212

The Billionaires Minimum Income Tax Proposal

213

The Economy, Inflation and the FAIRtax

214

A Theoretical Note on Tax Evasion

215

This Should Be the Last Tax Filing Deadline We Have to Endure

216

Is It OK for the Government to Have Access to Your Financial Life?

217

The Income Tax Is for Fools

218

War--How Would the FAIRtax Factor In?

219

Good News Tax Evaders, the IRS Can't Keep up with You

220

Millennials and Generation Z Should Demand the FAIRtax

221

Would the FAIRtax Have Made George's Job Any Easier in 1794?

222

Would Karl Marx Support the FAIRtax?

223

A President Tells Us Why We Must Continue

224

Face Time with the IRS

225

In Tax We Trust

226

How Would Our Past Leaders Feel About the Income Tax and the FAIRtax?

227

Evading Federal Taxes with the State's Help

228

The Income Tax, the FAIRtax and Illegal Income

229

Wake Up Tax Professionals - Put America First

230

How Would Businesses React to the FAIRtax?

231

The FAIRtax Message Is Being Heard - In the States

232

Budget Reconciliation and How it May Help Pass the FAIRtax

233

The FAIRtax - The Right Thing 17 Years Ago, The Right Thing Today

234

Crony Capitalism, Plaintiff's Lawyers and the Income Tax

235

Increasing the IRS Budget - A Waste of Money

236

The FAIRtax vs. the national debt

237

President Biden, Help Us Take Back Control of Our Tax System

238

The Budget and the FAIRtax - How Democracy Is Supposed to Work

239

Senator Sanders, the FAIRtax Will Fund Your Spending Proposals

240

Americans Are Great at What They Do

241

The Government Is Very Afraid of the Growing Tax Rebellion

242

Who Benefits from the Complexities of the Income Tax?

243

Salute to a Great FAIRtax Advocate and a Great Man

244

A FAIRtax Labor Day message

245

The FAIRtax As Explained by a Golf Ball

246

I'm From the Government and I'm Here to Help

247

Why the Government is Subject to the FAIRtax

248

The Hypocrisy of Attacking Wealthy Borrowers

249

The IRS Can't Be Fixed

250

They Are Still Afraid of Us

251

The IRS Made a Mistake and Dyane Smith Is Still Paying the Price

252

The FAIRtax and the Morality of Taxation

253

Happy 4th of July

254

Tax Exemption Denied Because Prayer and Bible Reading Boost the Republican Party

255

The Leaked Files Prove that the IRS Has Got to Go.

256

The IRS is Coming and We Should Be Very Afraid

257

Why Do They Still Defend the Income/Payroll Tax System?

258

It's Time to Take a Chance - What Have You Got to Lose?

259

See No Evil. Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil

260

Calls for Eliminating the Income Tax

261

Want to Know Who's Paying for Biden's Spending? Pass the FAIRtax

262

The Income Tax Adds More Risk to Investments - Ridiculous

263

Tax Evasion Is Picking Our Pockets

264

Follow the Money

265

The Biden Tax Hikes - Time for Truth, Not Tricks

266

Punishing Kids Who Work - Another Problem the FAIRtax Fixes

267

The Wealthy May Soon Decide That It's Time to Pass the FAIRtax

268

They Think the Purpose of the Income Tax Is to Redistribute Wealth

269

FAIRtax Power Radio at CPAC

270

Another Unnecessary Fight - Taxing Cryptocurrency

271

Fraud, Tax Crimes and Prison

272

The Income Tax Crisis - The IRS Will Show Its Teeth

273

Into the Weeds - How the FAIRtax Rate is Calculated

274

What's the Best Way to Increase the Minimum Wage? Pass the FAIRtax

275

It's Just Not Worth the Cost

276

Biden's Tax Plans, Puerto Rico and the Case for the FAIRtax

277

The 1918 Flu, the COVID crisis and the FAIRtax

278

Meet Our New Lead Sponsor in the House

279

The FAIRtax--the Vaccine for Many of Our Problems

280

The Power of Choice

281

The California Tax Revolt

282

How Taxes Affect Your Life

283

Tax Reform Big Enough for Texas

284

Democracy at Work

285

The FAIRtax Will Make Politicians Focus on what's Really Important

286

The FAIRtax Will Increase US Manufacturing Jobs - Why That Matters

287

What Happens After the Election?

288

Employee or Contractor? A Problem Created by the Income Tax

289

Make Financial Planning Possible - Pass the FAIRtax

290

Want Less Tax Evasion? Pass the FAIRtax

291

President Trump Is Making it Easier to Enact the FAIRtax

292

Evasion Under the FAIRtax

293

The Lobbyists Love Mr. Biden's Tax Proposals

294

It IS Possible

295

Joe Biden's Tax Hikes--The Real Problem

296

Yet Another Unnecessary Solution

297

Why California Needs to Rely More on Sales Taxes

298

Like Pigs at the Trough

299

The Supreme Court and the Trump Tax Returns

300

Assisted Suicide

301

Ordinary and Necessary - Language only a Bureaucrat Could Love

302

Happy 4th of July

303

How to Compel Your Congressional Representative to Answer You

304

Modern Monetary Theory May Help Pass the FAIRtax

305

Estate Planning, the Estate Tax and the FAIRtax

306

Religion, Churches and the FAIRtax

307

Could the Reaction to COVID-19 Be the Beginning of the End for Ruling Class Control?

308

How the FAIRtax Helps Solve the Student Loan Debt Crisis

309

The FAIRtax Rate Is Their Problem, Not Ours

310

Defending a Tax Break in the CARES Act

311

It's Time to Plan for the Post-Crisis World

312

Generalities and the Internal Revenue Code

313

Business Tax Compliance Burdens and Crony Capitalism

314

The Coronavirus Filing Delay Gives Us a Glimpse of the Future

315

The Coronavirus and its Economic Impact on the US

316

US Manufacturing and Higher Paying Jobs

317

Manufacturing, the coronavirus and Occam's Razor

318

The FAIRtax and the Coronavirus

319

The Right Way to Encourage Foreign Investment

320

The Parasitoids Are at it Again

321

How much do you REALLY pay?

322

The Income Tax Puts Everyone on Welfare

323

The right way and the wrong way to tax inheritances

324

The right way to fund Social Security

325

Should We Be Taxing Corporations?

326

An Unnecessary Problem for Small Business

327

The Ruling Class is Horrified

328

The Solution That Makes the Problem Worse

329

Rent Seeking via the Tax Code

330

How To Explain the FAIRtax Rate

331

A Thanksgiving Day Message

332

Why Senator Warren Should Embrace the FAIRtax

333

The Warning Shot To The Ruling Class

334

The FAIRtax Calculator

335

Confusion, The Tax Code & Free Stuff

336

Saving Social Security with the FAIRtax

337

The Smart People Outsmart Themselves Again

338

Impeachment Talk Is Costing The Swamp

339

Fewer Are Itemizing and the Swamp Is Worried

340

The Unnecessary Cryptocurrency Controversy

341

Taxpayers Pay For Congress' Bad Decisions

342

Is It Time To Switch The Income Tax With A Sales Tax?

343

The FAIRtax Volunteer From Down Under

344

Congress vs. The Business Round Table

345

Is the Feeding Frenzy Ending for the Swamp?

346

Is the FAIRtax Prebate an Entitlement?

347

Understanding the Alabama Economic Freedom Act

348

The "Alabama Economic Freedom Act"

349

The FAIRtax & the Farmer

350

Land Conservation - The Swamp Strikes Again

351

The Unnecessary Farm Crisis

352

The Spirit of July 4th Is Needed for the FAIRtax

353

When Bernie Examines the FAIRtax, He Will Demand It!

354

The Tariff Penalty Caused by the Current Tax System

355

Why Don't Business Leaders Demand the FAIRtax?

356

Stop Special Tax Treatment for the Very Wealthy

357

Earned Income Tax Credit —A Mess Only The Swamp Loves

358

Punishing Gold Star Families

359

The China Tariff Dispute - Largely Unnecessary

360

The Swamp Should Be Embarrassed

361

A Very Regressive Tax - The Excise Tax