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Comes the fair tax: the latest in the push for saner, more effective taxation in the United States.(2008 II)(FairTax, tax reform)
The biggest success story of the 2008 Republican primary season isn't about a candidate. It's about an issue: FairTax, a proposal that would eliminate income taxes outright and replace them with a national sales tax. From relative obscurity a year ago, the FairTax campaign has come to dominate Republican politics at the grassroots level, especially in battleground states like Iowa, where the GOP's state chairman has said, "The most important economic reform Congress can enact to win the fight against poverty is the FairTax."
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