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DEL.ICIO.USOn the Fair Tax, shifting cash, and another third party preparing to enter the Senate race
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Notes on the U.S. Senate race:
— Supporters of the Fair Tax, with Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss in attendance, predicted this afternoon that an attack on the national sales tax will backfire on Jim Martin, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate.
The Washington-based Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee this week began running a television ad attacking Chambliss for supporting a 23 percent tax on every purchase — not mentioning that the Fair Tax also advocates elimination of the income tax.
(My AJC colleague Jim Tharpe was there. I’ll post a link to his complete file as quickly as possible.)
Chambliss can’t help but be delighted by this. One would have to guess that the Fair Tax crowd, by and large, is the same Republican-oriented group ticked off by Chambliss’ support of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout. Which Martin opposes. By attacking the Fair Tax, the DSCC risks driving these fiscal conservatives back into the arms of the Republican incumbent.
On the other hand, the DSCC couldn’t exactly throw out a TV spot taking Martin’s side against the bailout. Most Democrats in Congress supported the rescue. The Fair Tax, meanwhile, has few Democratic defenders.
— Tom Baxter, who once served as the chief political analyst for a major metropolitan newspaper, included this paragraph in one of his files for the Southern Political Report:
While the Democrats have been expanding their sites in House races, Republicans have been pulling back and circling the wagons in the Senate. The National Republican Senatorial Committee this week dropped advertising for Republican challenger John Kennedy, who’s trying to unseat U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu in Louisiana, reportedly to divert money to the suddenly troubled campaigns of incumbents Mitch McConnell in Kentucky and Saxby Chambliss in Georgia.
— My AJC colleague Ben Smith says he’s picked up some signs that the pro-Republican group called Freedom Watch is preparing to drop some big bucks on TV ads in metro Atlanta, presumably on behalf of Chambliss.
The group is already playing in the U.S. Senate race in Colorado. Last week, USA Today reported that Freedom Watch had already dropped $3.7 million on congressional races, on behalf of the GOP.
— Meanwhile, Julia Malone in our Washington bureau says the national AFL-CIO will join the fray as well — on Martin’s behalf, of course.
Richard Ray, Georgia’s AFL-CIO president, said the national union will assist in the mailing of 250,000 flyers and dialing tens of thousands of robo-calls. Ray said he expected the national organization to send more dollars to the state but said no specific amount has been allotted for the Georgia contest, which now ranks near the top among a dozen Senate races that the AFL-CIO has targeted.
Click here to see a union mailing that goes out Monday. It conveniently pictures Chambliss with a certain incumbent president.
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Comments
By Will Jones
October 18, 2008 3:34 PM | Link to this
The “Fair Tax,” a federally administered universal sales tax, is a scheme to protect the wealthy from the paltry taxes they presently pay - evidenced by the deficit, debt, and financial crisis the political false-elite they bribe/”contribute to” have created - and to force the poor and low-income to fork out in their subsistence purchases.
Righteousness exalteth a Nation. Do not oppress the poor.
It is completely regressive and should be supported only by those who support fascist plutocracy and the welfare fascism now lining the pockets of Wall Street usurers.
So it makes perfect sense that “Bush-pal,” and his fellow draft-dodger Chambliss is the candidate for supporters of the “Fair Tax;” and other patent aggressions of the Roman Anti-Christ’s Fifth Column against the People’s Sovereignty and the Constitution: cheating Bush into office; tacitly endorsing or explicitly ordering Bush/Cheney’s 9/11 treason; Bush’s father’s murder of John and Martin to keep us in Rome’s Vietnam; illegal immigration, false war, debasement of our currency and defense of Rome’s pedophile priesthood.
The rest of us, Georgians, thank G-d the great majority, seeking righteousness, reason, and justice will proudly support Jim Martin, a Veteran who honorably and nobly answered Duty’s call even though our country was duped into making it by the corruption Bush, Chambliss, McCain and the rest of the Gay Old Perverts continue to attempt to foist off on us.
Martin/Obama ‘08 and may G-d Bless America again.
Jeffersonian Exegesis
By tkrop
October 19, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this
Only a fool or a socialist or a communist would oppose the FairTax Take your pick
By tkrop
October 19, 2008 11:50 AM | Link to this
Only a fool or a socialist or a communist would oppose the FairTax Take your pick
By MrLiberty
October 19, 2008 7:59 PM | Link to this
The only FAIR tax is 0% tax on income. Anything else is slavery. The FAIR tax is just another way to keep the government spending excessive amounts of money while making the process of paying a little more palatable to the average american.
What we need are massive spending cuts and a return to the size government allowed by the constitution. With that we could eliminate the income tax along with dozens of other taxes and still have enought money to pay for national DEFENSE (not empire) and the few other constitutional activities of the federal government.
Don’t look for a republican (except Ron Paul) or any democrat to ever call for that kind of sanity.
By Bitter EX democrackkk
October 20, 2008 7:18 AM | Link to this
The FAIRTAX just keeps gaining momentum, but ONLY if the Federal Income TAX is outlawed…wait a minute, you mean it was never ratified? what?
God bless those companies who already refuse to be tax collectors for the government by allowing their employees independent contractors!
Will Jones should understand MORE about the FAIRTAX and HOW it will actually HELP the ‘poor’ people. Will, there would be vouchers for necessities to be tax free, based on the size of yo family.
With FAIRTAX, all the other inbred taxes would be removed, and the taxes would come from actual consumption of goods and services. Visitors and ILLEGALs would pay their fair share while in our midst. Payroll bookeeping for companies would be eliminated, cost of accounting, etc would decrease. (yes we know CPAs scoff at FAIRTAX, but they get rich helping people ‘save’ money, dont they?)
anyway, if NObama goes in, for the immediate future, your federal income tax is likely to double+ within 2-3 years.
the rEVOLution continues…