Americans For Fair Taxation (AFFT) is the nation's largest, single-issue grassroots organization dedicated to fundamental tax code replacement. They are a non-partisan group of volunteers who are working to get the Fair Tax Act enacted in the United States. Americans For Fair Taxation subscribe to the ideals of simplicity, fairness, and freedom which they believe are embodied in the FairTax. The organization claims to have over 600,000 members & supporters. Grassroots is a political movement for individual constituents of a community to voice their ideas and opinions. ... An organization or organisation (read more about -ize vs -ise) is a formal group of people with one or more shared goals. ... Partisan may refer to: A member of a lightly-equipped irregular military force formed to oppose control of an area by a foreign power or by an army of occupation. ... Volunteers is a 1969 album by American psychedelic rock band, Jefferson Airplane. ... The FairTax Book, co-authored by Neal Boortz and John Linder, was published on August 2, 2005, as a tool to increase public support for the FairTax Plan. ...

History

In 1994, three Houston businessmen, Jack Trotter, Bob McNair, and Leo Linbeck were meeting together for lunch. As was common, they began commiserating about the ridiculousness of the Federal Income tax code. But at this particular lunch, they decided to do something about it and each pledged $1.5 Million as seed money to hire tax experts in the country to identify the faults with the current system, to determine what American citizens would like to see in tax reform, and then to design the best system of taxation.

With their initial infusion of $4.5 Million, the three went on to raise an additional $17 Million. That money funded focus groups with citizens around the country and studies with nationally prominent experts in tax policy.

Some of the experts funded include:

• Professors David Burton and Dan Mastromarco, University of Maryland and The Argus Group
• Larry Kotlikoff, Boston University
• Stephen Moore, The Cato Institute
• Professor Dale Jorgenson, Harvard University
• Bill Beach, The Heritage Foundation
• Jim Poterba, The National Bureau of Economic Research
• Professor George Zodrow, Rice University and the Baker Institute for Public Policy
• Professor Joseph Kahn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

External links

• Americans For Fair Taxation Main Website
• Americans For Fair Taxation Volunteer Website
• Americans For Fair Taxation Blog Website

AFFT grassroots sites

• FairTax Blog - Group blog with news and discussion of the FairTax plan
• FairTax Revolution - Provides FairTax Action Alerts
• FairTax Groups - National FairTax message forums
• FairTax Foundation - Organization promoting the FairTax
• FairTax Yahoo Groups - State groups for FairTax information
• FairTax Indiana - Hoosiers for the FairTax
• FairTax Texas - Texans for the FairTax
• FairTax Florida - Floridians for the FairTax
• FairTax Georgia - Georgians for the FairTax