Let's talk FairTax talk.(LETTERS)

Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In the Jan. 30 editorial "Taxes and candidates," there were inferences to fact that are not backed by the facts. Mike Huckabee's statements about the FairTax in the editorial are backed by the facts. Reading the FairTax Act and some of the $23 million in research on the FairTax could have prevented your errors.

The editorial debates whether the FairTax rate is 30 percent or 23 percent. To compare the FairTax to the income tax that it would replace, we would have to say a person at a 20 percent income tax rate would really be at a 26 percent ...

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