FairTax Would Replace Federal Tax System with Simple Alternative

That is, if you believe former baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth, who recently wrote an editorial with the above title in the Whittier Daily News. I wrote an article on the pros and the cons of the FairTax that generated a lot of response from FairTax advocates. In fact I still get a few e-mails a week on the article, which was written almost two years ago. The FairTax issue is being kept alive by an army of advocate-volunteers, but it remains to be seen how far it will get in Washington.

Articles on the FairTax Proposal
1. FairTax - Income Taxes vs. Sales Taxes
2. FairTax - The Advocates Strike Back
3. FairTax Redux

In other news Chapter 6 of Conte and Carr's Outline of the U.S. Economy is now on the site:

CHAPTER 6: The Role of Government in the Economy
1. Government and the Economy
2. Laissez-faire Versus Government Intervention
3. Growth of Government Intervention in the Economy
4. Federal Efforts to Control Monopoly
5. Antitrust Cases Since World War II
6. Deregulating Transportation
7. Deregulating Telecommunications
8. Deregulation: The Special Case of Banking
9. Banking and the New Deal
10. Savings and Loan Bailouts
11. Lessons Learned From The Savings and Loan Crisis
12. Protecting the Environment
13. Government Regulation: What's Next?