MO FairTax Update - Urgent! Contact: John Putnam 417-674-1946 Historic Opportunity
MO FairTax Advocates, (Please forgive us if this is a duplicate email. Because of the urgency of this message, we are cross posting all lists.) A truly historic opportunity has presented itself to strike a major blow to our burdensome income tax system. Missouri is on the forefront of a sea change in the way taxes are collected and WE NEED YOUR HELP! Save this date now as we get more information to you: The situation is fluid and DEVELOPING... Wednesday, April 29, 2009 If at all possible, plan to spend the day in Jefferson City lobbying in support of the MO FairTax (MO HJR 36). Tentative Schedule: 12:00 noon - Senate Ways & Means Committee Hearing - MO State Capitol - Hearing Room TBA 1:00 - 5:00 pm - BRIEF calls of support to your personal State Senator 5:00 or 6:00 pm - FairTax Rally in the Capitol (we need several hundred people to be present!) Background: MO HJR 36 has passed the MO House and will be heard in the Senate Ways & Means Committee (currently promised for Wed at 12 noon but subject to change at the Chairman's discretion). Opposing groups have misconstrued the facts of the bill claiming it will raise the current MO state sales tax from 4.225% to 9%. In reality, it will raise the sales tax from the current rate TO 5.11% NOT BY 5.11%. Liberal advocates of the progressive income tax are calling for people to show up en mass to protest this bill and prevent its passage in the MO Senate. If passed in the Senate, the MO FairTax (the first state bill modeled after the national FairTax bill (HR-25) including a prebate resulting in a totally untaxed low-wage earner) will go straight to a referendum by the people without need for the Governor's approval. It would be on the ballot in Aug or Nov 2010 (probably Nov) and be effective in 2012 if it passes a vote of the people. The biggest significance of this issue is that, if passed, MO could be the incubator for proving that the FairTax works and offers to be an economic magnet to business. Once the FairTax's validity is established in time instead of theory, the path would be paved for other states and eventually the federal government to switch to this economic model. If you want to see the FairTax vision fulfilled, please do everything within your power to join us at the Capitol on Wednesday, April 29, 2009. To receive more information about these developing meetings, please join one of our two online action websites so you can stay in the information loop and not be dependent on high-maintenance email lists. They are: _http://www.meetup.com/MO-Fairtax/_ (http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102561917567&s=3625&e=001fdCJgr0n9BgWrBCcfyopr57TIBxs948BnuHUN93WDETNBfnZD_wSyE-a0NAZQAHp PXGZazeeT-F8cco2qpo-PgAOwsEiGSTgjWfNbOXjAUJ1J78PnQS2RSfVSDEFR03M) or _http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mofairtax/_ (http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102561917567&s=3625&e=001fdCJgr0n9BjRd1DEEzCfU-dTRebCUAU5VarRaiYINMmH77nQSyyWg2O9C JVetePzQLsR76DgFNjScXyvTuxUzugaE2-UQM7bMK-5RCH9aAFZ5H6yQ8YzuOAfco86ISsnCLr3D LV6KCA=) More information will be sent as it is available. For everyone who has ever been told the FairTax will never happen, this is your answer to the nay-sayers. Best Regards, John Putnam comse...@jscomm.net (please add to your address book) Bill Phelps (fmr MO Lt. Gov.) Co-Directors, MO FairTax.org _Join the National Fight for Tax Fairness Here_ (http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102561917567&s=3625&e=001fdCJgr0n9Bi5G-UaTb1FdtAPhxDWbje6LbjQ6d0wFy4wrN_dELou B_owdaoNUdaZWmB4p1aVHmsdJPpzy4W1eqlNkWz9iInKO0_O0duQeg0=) **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps!(http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1220814855x1201410739/aol?red ir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=62&bcd=A prilfooter426NO62) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ This is a Free Speech forum. The owner of this list assumes no responsibility for the intellectual or emotional maturity of its members. If you do not like what is being said here, filter it to trash, ignore it or leave. If you leave, learn how to do this for yourself. If you do not, you will be here forever. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
