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(Kalamazoo) -
Separate challenges (consolidated for Press, below) were delivered,
today, by fax and e-mail, to four congressional candidates that are
running, or allowing others to run, advertisements claiming that
their opponent's tax plan is an additional tax rather than a
replacement tax. In each instance their opponent advocates for
the adoption of the FairTax Act (HR 25), which is a replacement tax
and not an additional tax.
Volunteer President of the
Michigan FairTax Association, Roger Buchholtz, said, "To provide the
public clarity on this issue the Michigan FairTax Association has
challenged each of the candidates to debate the claim made in the
ads that the tax proposal is an additional tax or a tax
increase."
Buchholtz continued, "FactCheck.org has found
these ads false because the ads omit the fact that the FairTax
eliminates and replaces many other taxes and is not, therefore, an
additional
tax."
FairTax
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FAX
TRANSMITTAL
(Addressed to recipients, and sent,
separately; combined below for this PR)
October
22, 2010
To:
Gary
McDowell, Candidate, 1st Congressional District; 906
635-3060
Dale Kildee,
Candidate, 5th Congressional District; 240 332-6104
Mark Schauer, Candidate, 7th
Congressional District; 517 783-1278
Gary Peters, Candidate, 9th
Congressional District; 248 808-6742
From: Roger
Buchholtz, President Michigan FairTax Association
Pages: 1 of
1
Subject: Debate
Challenge
Gary McDowell (Dale Kildee, Mark
Schauer, Gary Peters), you are challenged to a
debate.
Whereas, you and/or your supporters assert in
advertisements and other means that your opponent, Dan Benishek
(John Kupiec, Tim Walberg, Rocky Raczkowski, respectively), proposes
an additional 23 percent tax; and
Whereas, Dan
Benishek (John Kupiec, Tim Walberg, Rocky Raczkowski, respectively)
advocates for the adoption of the FairTax Act (HR 25); and
Whereas, the FairTax Act is a non-partisan replacement
tax and not an additional tax; and
Whereas,
FactCheck.org has found such ads to be false; and
Whereas, you have chosen not to request that the ads
be pulled, nor have you renounced the ads as misleading and
deceptive;
You are hereby challenged to debate the
issue and provide evidence of the claim that the FairTax is an
additional tax, as you and/or your supporters assert to the public,
rather than the replacement tax that is now before the House Ways
and Means Committee as HR 25.
It is advised that,
prior to the debate, you read the FairTax Act, so that you can speak
from first-hand knowledge about the proposal.
The
debate can be scheduled at your convenience any time between Monday,
October 25 and Thursday, October 28, 2010.
Contact
Roger Buchholtz at roger.buchholtz@mifairtax.org or (269) 345-0950
to schedule this debate or to renounce the assertion that the
FairTax Act is an additional
tax.
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