FairTax group helped Huckabee an awful lot.

[MsDoodahs]

http://www.iowaindependent.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=785

Fair Tax Voters Boost Huckabee
by: Garance Franke-Ruta
Saturday (08/11) at 21:28 PM

Voters bused to the Ames Straw Poll by Americans for Fair Taxation helped give a boost to suprise second-place poll winner Mike Huckabee, according to both a spokesman for the group and Huckabee campaign manager Chip Saltsman. Asked about things that might have made the difference for Huckabee, who did not bus voters to the poll and purchased about 1,850 tickets for supporters, Saltsman said, "We talked a lot about the fair tax."
The group, better known as FairTax.org, bused about 500 voting Iowans and 1,000 other supporters to the Straw Poll today, according to FairTax.org national director of grassroots Mike Rose. The group sponsored a ferris wheel -- the "Fairest Wheel," they called it -- at the Straw Poll, as well as a fan-cooled tent serving barbecue and dessert to supporters. This came on the heels of a two-week, 25-stop bus tour across the state to drum up enthusiasm for the group's tax reform plan, which Huckabee supports. Poll winner Mitt Romney and third-place finisher Sen. Sam Brownback do not support the plan.

All told, the group spent $150,000 on the straw poll, according to national spokesman Ken Hoagland -- roughly the same amount as the Huckabee campaign itself. "We're about 6 inches off the ground," said Hoagland. "We see it as a victory for our issue."
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(Hat tip to the LRCblog)

[BLS]

Fan cooled my ass.

It was hotter than 2 squirrels screwing in a wool sock in there.

[MsDoodahs]

Roflol!

[Psyclone]

Yep, the Fair Tax tent was an oven.

[Eli]

how do we get fair tax to endorse ron paul?

[mrchubbs]

I got an email from the FairTax org the day after the straw poll with the subject of:

Iowa Heats Up - FairTax Decisive in 2nd Place Finish for Huckabee

And in the text of the email it has the following bit:


"Once again, we energized the candidates/campaigns that support the FairTax and reminded those candidates who have failed to support our cause that the FairTax movement is second to none and cannot be summarily dismissed.

We continue to thank Mike Huckabee, Tom Tancredo, Mike Gravel, Duncan Hunter, John McCain, Ron Paul, John Cox, Fred Thompson (yes, it is true!), and Tommy Thompson for their continued support of the FairTax."

So they acknowledge his support of it, at least.

[JosephTheLibertarian]

Why did they then exclusively endorse Huckabee? bastards. All they are is a pro-Huckabee group that pretends to represent the FairTax movement.

[Man from La Mancha]

My conspiral mind suspects the fair tax people are government backed. They know now we have a voluntary tax so they have to fix it with a new law that says it is mandatory.:) Ron wants no tax.


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[Kuldebar]

Cross post from a post yesterday at the alt site...

Ran across this over at Lew Rockwell's Huckabee's buses labeled "Fair Tax" (http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/014661.html)

It led me to this place:

Huckabee’s secret sauce? The FairTax (http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/08/12/huckabees-secret-sauce-the-fairtax/)

(how can a 501(c)(4) give to a state party??)
Which pointed to the Iowa Independent site:

Fair Tax Voters Boost Huckabee (http://www.iowaindependent.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=785)


Voters bused to the Ames Straw Poll by Americans for Fair Taxation helped give a boost to surprise second-place poll winner Mike Huckabee, according to both a spokesman for the group and Huckabee campaign manager Chip Saltsman. Asked about things that might have made the difference for Huckabee, who did not bus voters to the poll and purchased about 1,850 tickets for supporters, Saltsman said, "We talked a lot about the fair tax."

The group, better known as FairTax.org, bused about 500 voting Iowans and 1,000 other supporters to the Straw Poll today, according to FairTax.org national director of grassroots Mike Rose. The group sponsored a ferris wheel -- the "Fairest Wheel," they called it -- at the Straw Poll, as well as a fan-cooled tent serving barbecue and dessert to supporters. This came on the heels of a two-week, 25-stop bus tour across the state to drum up enthusiasm for the group's tax reform plan, which Huckabee supports. Poll winner Mitt Romney and third-place finisher Sen. Sam Brownback do not support the plan.

All told, the group spent $150,000 on the straw poll, according to national spokesman Ken Hoagland -- roughly the same amount as the Huckabee campaign itself. "We're about 6 inches off the ground," said Hoagland. "We see it as a victory for our issue."

[JosephTheLibertarian]

Be weary.. many of these shills want to implement Fair Tax AND THEN leave in the current Income Tax system!

[Kuldebar]

The only "fair" tax is no tax.

[JosephTheLibertarian]

The only "fair" tax is no tax and a government that relies on private contributions and temporary [deadline] taxes. Unless you want to indulge in the realism of anarchism? ;)

[Craig_R]

taxation is theft

[stevedasbach]

Why did they then exclusively endorse Huckabee? bastards. All they are is a pro-Huckabee group that pretends to represent the FairTax movement.

Huckabee is the candidate that most visibly and publicly supports the FairTax.

[TexMac]

Cross post from a post yesterday at the alt site...

Ran across this over at Lew Rockwell's Huckabee's buses labeled "Fair Tax" (http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/014661.html)

It led me to this place:

Huckabee’s secret sauce? The FairTax (http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/08/12/huckabees-secret-sauce-the-fairtax/)

Which pointed to the Iowa Independent site:

Fair Tax Voters Boost Huckabee (http://www.iowaindependent.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=785)They're denying it today.

FairTax.Org Responds (http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/08/the_iowa_independent_blog_belo.php)

They say their tent was air conditioned. I thought that was Brownback's claim to fame.

[Mani]

I got an email from the FairTax org the day after the straw poll with the subject of:

Iowa Heats Up - FairTax Decisive in 2nd Place Finish for Huckabee

And in the text of the email it has the following bit:


"Once again, we energized the candidates/campaigns that support the FairTax and reminded those candidates who have failed to support our cause that the FairTax movement is second to none and cannot be summarily dismissed.

We continue to thank Mike Huckabee, Tom Tancredo, Mike Gravel, Duncan Hunter, John McCain, Ron Paul, John Cox, Fred Thompson (yes, it is true!), and Tommy Thompson for their continued support of the FairTax."

So they acknowledge his support of it, at least.

Rudy's not on that list. From the debates I remember him being asked if he could get rid of one tax what would it be???




The Death Tax...




Great. You want to stop taxing us once we are dead. What a great guy.



I literally LOL when I heard his answer.

[RevolutionSD]

The so-called Fair Tax is a fraud created by the government.
It will kill our country faster than the income tax.

[The Only Woj]

we need to make brochures for something called the "no tax". inside the brochure it just says "no income tax. no tax to replace it. the no tax, brought to you by Dr. No"

[Mr. White]

How about brought to you by ron paul

[Badger Paul]

Who is funding this group?