Thursday, April 26, 2007

 

As someone who does not subscribe to the AJC, I do not read Jay Bookman's column. However, I have been reading some of his work after I reading Neal Boortz's blog.

I must congratulate him on actually reading and responding to his emails from readers. Such sincerity goes a long way these days. I am not going to launch into a FairTax tirade, as I am not a fairtax (or tax) zealot. Tax talk puts me to sleep.

But I wanted to point out a few things:
1. The term "fair tax" appears only 122 times on boortz.com. Unfortunately, the search engine on that site isn't very sophisticated.
But his point is valid; it is quite hypocritical for Neal Boortz to cite you on such a small detail.

2. I don't know if you have or have not read the book, and quite frankly, I don't care. I haven't read the book. I haven't read any of Boortz's books. I think if you listen to his program for more than a week or so, you begin to hear the same points and logic repeated. You can't do that with a column; you wouldn't be original.

However, the basic principle of the sales tax and other basic concepts of the FairTax must be understood thoroughly before writing intelligently about it; I do not feel you have done your due diligence.

3. The idea of the FairTax is appealing to me, because it would reduce the amount of corrupting influences on our political system. There are many other merits of the proposal, and I really want to see our representatives be challenged with this proposal.

4. I would attend a debate or at least watch it on YouTube (one word) to see such a topic discussed. Personally, it's of greater value to watch two non politicians actually have a well informed debate on an issue. The state of "debates" by politicians in today's elections are a joke. They are not debates, they are a series of prepared statements and jabs.

Labels: Fair Tax, FairTax, Jay Bookman, Neal Boortz

posted by Jack 4/26/2007 12:14:00 PM