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Thursday, April 26, 2007
Let’s talk more FairTax
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Writing about the dubious aspects of the proposed FairTax, as I did in a recent column, turns out to be a bit like kicking over an ant hill. As soon as the column was published, FairTax zealots swarmed by the hundreds to defend their cause. In fact, many of their responses were downright startling in their similarity. Email after email made almost exactly the same points in almost exactly the same language, as if they had been indoctrinated. The indoctrinator in chief, talk-radio host Neal Boortz, made some claims about my work on his show, which I address here. Apparently, he also challenged me to debate the issue, which I’m more than ready to do. I’ll go live on his show — the same forum he used to criticize my work — and we’ll talk it over. Yet for some reason, Boortz now refuses to let his audience hear that discussion. On Wednesday, we published a rebuttal to my column from the folks at FairTax.org, giving them access to our readers to make their argument. But apparently that’s a one-way street.
