Roanoke Area FairTax

The dirty little secret is beginning to seep out. Your federal government, ever watchful for new ways to take your money from you in order to (in part) use it to compel you to adopt certain behaviors, is thinking about the socialist European Value Added Tax (VAT). Even Speaker of the House Pelosi admitted, in [...]

There is an email going around to FairTaxers all over the country.  It is urging folks to go take a look at www.usdebtclock.org
The email usually says “I urge you to go to www.usdebtclock.org. This is a site every American, FairTaxer or otherwise, Democrat, Republican or Non-Affiliated, should see. The numbers are truly shocking, and this [...]

More than 9,000 of your fellow FairTaxers have already downloaded the new FairTax.org Toolbar to help raise money for the FairTax cause.
Will you take a moment now to help us hit our goal of 10,000 downloads on our way to 25,000 this year?
Thousands of FairTax supporters are already taking advantage of the our browser [...]

FairTaxNation.com has organized a protest for September the eleventh of this year on the day before the National March on Washington organized by the 9/12 project.
The Plan is to:

Meet with other FairTax supporters at the Pentagon Memorial at 9AM
Everyone go as a group to the METRO at 10 AM
Take the METRO to the “Federal Triangle [...]

Come out to the Next Tea Party at Smith Mountain Lake and bring your FairTax signs! Go and talk to the people there about the FairTax. They are fed up with the current tax system and some of them don’t know about the FairTax.  Please go to this Tea Party and talk to the folks [...]

Hollins Branch Library on Peter’s Creek rd.
first Thursday in Sept,3rd 7:00 pm
and Thursday ,October 1 at 7:00pm
Now more than ever we must educate everyone on the benefits of the FAIRTAX.  We want to reach those who are unfamiliar
with the FAIRTAX, so please bring your friends, neighbors and family to the meeting. Be part of the [...]

On Monday August 3rd Jackie Bledsoe, Roanoke Area FairTax District Director, made a presentation to the Roanoke Valley Libertarians (RVLP) at their August Meeting. She gave a short talk and outlined several of the key points of the FairTax.  She also showed a short video about the FairTax. The meeting had RVLPs regular members with [...]

Several of the Roanoke Area FairTax Supporters are planning on attending the The Americans for Prosperity Health Bus Stop in Roanoke, Va. We plan on passing out literature, talking about the FairTax to people there,  and possibly setting up a table (if we can get permission).
The Americans for Prosperity Health Bus Stop will be at [...]

If you have thoughts you’d like to express about the FairTax, send them to RAFT@cox.net. We’d be happy to consider them for publication on this website.

Americans for Fair Taxation’s Communications Director has written to FairTax supporters urging us to keep spreading the word. After pointing out how elected officials and candidates are not doing their jobs to solve problems, he gives examples of good news regarding the FairTax.

Rep. Bob Goodlatte is not yet a supporter of the FairTax.

Rep. Bob Goodlatte does not support the FairTax and is not a co-sponsor of H.R.-25 in Congress.

Hollins Branch Library on Peter’s Creek rd.
first Thursday in Sept,3rd 7:00 pm
and Thursday ,October 1 at 7:00pm
Now more than ever we must educate everyone on the benefits of the FAIRTAX.  We want to reach those who are unfamiliar
with the FAIRTAX, so please bring your friends, neighbors and family to the meeting. Be part of the [...]

Several of the Roanoke Area FairTax Supporters are planning on attending the The Americans for Prosperity Health Bus Stop in Roanoke, Va. We plan on passing out literature, talking about the FairTax to people there,  and possibly setting up a table (if we can get permission).
The Americans for Prosperity Health Bus Stop will be at [...]

There will be no August Meeting due to the number of people being away on vacation.
Our Regular meeting schedule will resume on the 1st Tuesday of September.

Do you wonder about how you can contribute to the FairTax debate? Donald Koop will describe a number of websites that are providing new ways to get the proposal well known around the country.

An article in Sunday’s paper was an eye opener of gigantic proportions..On page 10 was a picture of  at least 15 boxes of amendments
 to HR 3200, known as the health care bill.
 What is “buried” in these  legal documents that only lawyers can understand?    Some of the wording is almost laughable if it weren’t so
binding!!   ie a [...]

The Roanoke Times published Ricky Parker’s letter that explains how the FairTax would be a better way to stimulate the economy.

An interesting new website is attempting to create a national priority list for the new administration. I urge a visit to this site to keep the FairTax out in plain view.

The election has changed the situation regarding the FairTax. Read the inspiring message from Ken Hoagland, National Communications Director of FairTax.org.

Tax Day, April 15th is a great opportunity to spread the word to people whose minds are firmly focused on the unpleasantness of filing income taxes. And this year there is the additional opportunity of a national grassroots Tea Party movement. Roanoke Area FairTax is combining both at Roanoke’s main Post Office on Rutherford Ave. across from the Civic Center.

Roanoke Area FairTax needs your input! We are coming up on the most intense tax-based activity of the year and need your good ideas about how to get the FairTax message out during this time. We have a couple of Tea Party activities already scheduled and invite your participation in them, as well as your suggestions for expanding them or arranging new ones.

Saturday (3/14) is Roanoke’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade, a time for family and fun. Roanoke Area FairTax will be there again this year but with a new twist: an invitation to party.

The Goode-Perriello Congressional race is undecided three days after Election Day. Is it possible that Perriello’s distorted FairTax-based ad caused a surge of support for him? View the ad.