Roanoke Area FairTax

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 parties will begin tomorrow across the U.S. Go to a location near you and participate in letting our legislators know where you stand. Push the FairTax as the alternative to the current way to fund the government.

Let your voices be heard July 4th at Elmwood Park, from 5-7 pm.

A ‘Tea Party’ is being organized in the SML area and is scheduled to be held near the Grand Furniture Store in Westlake, VA on Tuesday, April 14th, between 2:30 and 4:00 pm.

Robert L. Matzuga found a way to speak to Congressman Tom Perriello about the FairTax and sent me his report. Robert’s example is one that every one of can follow in our own Districts.

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

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.

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.

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.

Roanoke Area FairTax will begin its 2008-9 monthly meetings with a special program, “The FairTax Story.”

Roanoke Area FairTax will resume its monthly meetings on November 6th. This meeting will be devoted to training people who would like to speak to groups about the FairTax.

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.

The IRS sent out more than $1 billion in fraudulent refunds last year. Yet more reasons to adopt the FairTax.

What suggestions do you have to increase the number of visitors to our website?? We’d like to reach thousands of people in the Roanoke Valley and beyond?

Do you know of a group that might like to hear “The FairTax Story”?