1. Remove a key incentive for outsourcing of non-tech/non-professional jobs.  Yes, education for professional jobs is terrific but not everyone can be a doctor, lawyer, financial planner, software developer.  Our nation needs to produce things as well.  Our abusive/intrusive tax structure - specifically Payroll, Corporate, and Capital Gains taxes - chases many jobs that often-times are stepping stone jobs (call center operators, etc.) for younger workers away from our lands.
2. Make the U.S. a tax haven and attract jobs at all levels to our lands.  By removing the Capital Gains Tax, investment can grow within our lands tax-free. 
3. Level the playing field between small, large, and enterprise-sized business by reducing the complexity of tax compliance for business.  Enterprise business has an economies-of-scale advantage purely from a tax compliance stand-point.  Simplify tax compliance and entrepreneurship will thrive!
4. Be more progressive than the current tax structure.  Payroll taxes are the most regressive tax around since they start from dollar #1 earned.  This hits the less fortunate the hardest.  The FairTax removes payroll taxes from earning and funds Social Security and Medicare through the general fund.  Families will chose when to contribute to the tax system when they pay for new goods and services (not education) beyond the poverty-level.  The poverty-level is key since legal family are rebated their anticipated taxes up to the poverty level.  My family of four would get $537 per month rebated to untax our consumption up to the $28,000 poverty level.  This means that all families' survival is made the top priority ahead of any contribution toward our nations taxes (as it should be).
5. Remove a key incentive for illegal immigrants to stay within our lands.  Since illegal immigrants do not qualify for the tax prebate, they will pay taxes on consumption of all new goods and services.  This is important... not only will illegal immigrants finally contribute to government services, so will tourists who visit our lands...  so will the underground economy who avoid/evade current taxes.
6. Streamline tax compliance tremendously.  Businesses who sell to consumers within our lands collect the tax and forward it up to the state with state sales taxes.  By eliminating personal tax returns and business-to-business tax obligations and by drastically reducing the tax complexity, we can scale back 90% of the IRS and stop wasting productive time of business people and citizens.  Our nation wastes $300+ million each year on tax compliance which can be put toward advancing our nation instead.

Last night I had the great pleasure of meeting a handful of people at the Macaroni Grill in Cerritos (Southern California) who are interested in the FairTax and what it can do for our country.

Nick and Joanna are already well-informed (and passionate) about the FairTax and are actively promoting it.  Both are super-dynamic. I look forward to teaming up with them in order to raise visibility. 

Ernie, a great close of mine, had some concerns about the FairTax – specifically… how can we ensure that individuals and businesses comply. The concern was eased by pointing out that it would take two entities in collusion (the buyer and the seller) to not comply with the Fairtax whereas under the current tax system, the individual (or biz) can fudge a number here or there when reporting income. I also personally believe that there would be stiff penalties on businesses for non-compliance (prison, fines, loss of business licenses, etc.). Besides, why try to evade/avoid when the system is not abusive?

Richard, my nephew, agreed that online communities such as facebook would be a great way to gain visibility. Clearly, www.meetup.com as a sole promotional tool is insufficient.

So… promote, promote, promote!

Joanna tossed out some great ideas about facebook, Teleseminars, etc. Nick wants to team up and do booths at heavily trafficked areas like the Promenade in Santa Monica, 2nd Street in Long Beach, malls, etc. Nick also has a rapper friend that it might be fun to shoot a video of to post on YouTube.

So, I have dusted off the facebook account and will be adding some content to that community about Southern California efforts. I have ordered a domain (www.socalfairtax.org) which will enable us to create a group e-mail address (info@socalfairtax.org) . I have also started this new blog on TH specifically for SoCalFairTax postings.

Finally, toward the end of our meeting three guys (Kurt, Pablo, and Albert) in their early twenties saw my “NO IRS” sign and came over to ask what we were all about. They had just finished dinner and, I kid you not, one of the discussions was taxation and how one of them wanted to go Wesley Snipes on the system (i.e. avoid taxation). We all chatted for at least 30 minutes and had a great exchange of FairTax concepts. Looks like we have a few more FairTax enthusiasts!

That’s it for now…