{"id":8955,"date":"2011-02-15T13:04:24","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T21:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/?p=8955"},"modified":"2011-02-15T13:04:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T21:04:24","slug":"stevencurtis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/2011\/02\/15\/stevencurtis\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Curtis tells why the 16th Amendment should be repealed and replaced with a Fair Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steven L. Curtis serves as State Director for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohfairtax.org\/\">Ohio FairTax<\/a> and Chair of the Strategy Subcommittee of the FairTax Grassroots Advisory Board.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the FairTax?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The FairTax plan is a comprehensive proposal that replaces federal income and payroll taxes with an simple, integrated approach including:<\/p>\n<p>* A progressive national retail sales tax.<br \/>\n* A prebate to ensure no American pays federal taxes on purchases up to the poverty level.<br \/>\n* Dollar-for-dollar federal revenue neutrality.<br \/>\n* Repeal of the 16th Amendment through companion legislation.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2008 Presidential Election Campaign, Mike Huckabee was singled out for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairtax.org\/site\/News2?page=NewsArticle&#038;id=9281\">his support<\/a> of the FairTax.<\/p>\n<p>For another perspective about the FairTax plan, listen to excerpts of <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/2009\/06\/04\/waynejett\/\">past shows<\/a> with economist Wayne Jett.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven L. Curtis serves as State Director for Ohio FairTax and Chair of the Strategy Subcommittee of the FairTax Grassroots Advisory Board.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,11,39,12],"tags":[694,693,302,3123,741,3432,24,3419,3420,692],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}