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| **Defending the American Dream\                             |        |
| How the Wealthy Defend Against\                             |        |
| Taxes, Tort and Terrorism**                                 |        |
|                                                             |        |
| July 4, 2002\                                               |        |
| John Gaver                                                  |        |
|                                                             |        |
| As our elected representatives argue among themselves about |        |
| how best to exert even more legislative control over        |        |
| citizens and corporations, in the name of **\"fighting      |        |
| terrorism\",** they fail to realize that just that sort of  |        |
| draconian legislation is actually brewing a virtually       |        |
| unseen crisis of terrifying proportions.  Combine that with |        |
| the effects of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001  |        |
| and more data that we have uncovered and what you have is a |        |
| recipe for                                                  |        |
| d                                                           |        |
| isaster.![](media/image1.jpeg){width="1.0409722222222222in" |        |
| height="1.301388888888889in"}                               |        |
|                                                             |        |
| The wealthiest people in the United States - those who have |        |
| achieved the American Dream - those who pay almost all of   |        |
| the taxes - those who are responsible for the vast majority |        |
| of US investment capital - are leaving the United States    |        |
| large and growing numbers.  This isn\'t news.  We have      |        |
| known about the growing expatriation rate for some time and |        |
| common sense tells us that it isn\'t the poor who are       |        |
| leaving.  But, new data that we have uncovered confirms     |        |
| that it is indeed, the wealthiest Americans, who are being  |        |
| forced to leave.  Furthermore, we can now expect to see     |        |
| this **government induced capital flight** increase         |        |
| dramatically in the near future, as a result of the growing |        |
| media attention to this issue and the effect of the         |        |
| terrorist attacks.                                          |        |
|                                                             |        |
| This is a very serious problem, because as we have shown in |        |
| previous articles, if only the top earning 1% of taxpayers  |        |
| leave (just over a million taxpayers), it will mean a loss  |        |
| of over one-third of income tax revenue, requiring a **50%  |        |
| tax increase** for those who remain.                        |        |
|                                                             |        |
| It would be a serious mistake to call those who are         |        |
| leaving, unpatriotic.  After all, what could be more        |        |
| patriotic than defending the **American Dream.**  In fact,  |        |
| all that they are doing is responding to a recent spate of  |        |
| oppressive laws, designed to punish the wealthy for having  |        |
| achieved the **American Dream.**  If anyone in this         |        |
| equation is unpatriotic, it is our elected lawmakers, who   |        |
| are attacking the **American Dream** and forcing these      |        |
| patriotic Americans to defend what they have achieved, by   |        |
| taking it elsewhere.                                        |        |
|                                                             |        |
| Those who have followed our articles on [**Action           |        |
| America**](http://www.actionamerica.org/)                   |        |
| ([ht                                                        |        |
| tp://www.ActionAmerica.org](http://www.actionamerica.org/)) |        |
| in recent years are already aware of this disconcerting     |        |
| trend of **government induced capital flight** that has     |        |
| been growing like a cancer, just under the surface.  But,   |        |
| rather than report on an issue and then just set back on    |        |
| our laurels, we\'re constantly looking for new sources of   |        |
| information that might indicate that things are either      |        |
| better or worse than first reported.  The reason for this   |        |
| article is that we have, indeed, uncovered new information. |        |
|                                                             |        |
| **It\'s getting worse.**                                    |        |
|                                                             |        |
| I\'m sorry to have to say this, but it looks like the       |        |
| flight of wealth from our shores is much worse than         |        |
| originally reported; worse even than reported in our        |        |
| annually updated article on this subject,                   |        |
| **\"[Tick-Tick-Tick - The Economy                           |        |
| Bo                                                          |        |
| mb](http://www.actionamerica.org/taxecon/ticktick.html)\"** |        |
| which you can find at                                       |        |
| ([http://www.ActionAmerica.org/taxecon/ticktick.h           |        |
| tml](http://www.actionamerica.org/taxecon/ticktick.html)).  |        |
| There are three new facts that point to this ominous        |        |
| conclusion.  Actually, it is two new facts and one that has |        |
| been around for a while, but it took some work to uncover   |        |
| it.                                                         |        |
|                                                             |        |
| **1) The major media is taking notice.**                    |        |
|                                                             |        |
| In recent weeks, I have read numerous news articles about   |        |
| how Congress is considering several different pieces of     |        |
| legislation aimed at preventing major corporations from     |        |
| reincorporating in offshore jurisdictions, in order to      |        |
| remain competitive with their foreign rivals and punishing  |        |
| those corporations that leave anyway.  What those           |        |
| corporations are doing is referred to as corporate          |        |
| expatriation and is not only legal, but in many cases,      |        |
| necessary in order to stay competitive with their foreign   |        |
| rivals.  But, it\'s not corporate expatriation that this    |        |
| article concerns.  I only mention it, because it            |        |
| demonstrates that the media is beginning to take notice of  |        |
| capital flight issues.                                      |        |
|                                                             |        |
| In previous articles on the subject of capital flight, we   |        |
| have pointed out that even though the number of wealthy     |        |
| individuals choosing to leave the United States, for more   |        |
| wealth friendly climates, is increasing rapidly, **the      |        |
| worst flight will not occur until the media takes notice**  |        |
| of what is happening and draws attention to the problem.    |        |
|                                                             |        |
| **Oops!**  The media **is** taking notice.                  |        |
|                                                             |        |
| Granted, the current news is not about the **government     |        |
| induced** **individual** expatriations that represent a     |        |
| true threat to our economy, but only about corporations     |        |
| that expatriate and cause no real harm to the economy in    |        |
| the process, since their jobs stay here.  But, if the media |        |
| is now reporting the **smoke of government induced          |        |
| corporate expatriations,** how long do you think it will be |        |
| before they find and begin reporting on the **fire of       |        |
| government induced individual expatriations?**              |        |
|                                                             |        |
| As the media tries to bleed every ounce of interest out of  |        |
| the story of corporate expatriations, it\'s almost certain  |        |
| that some industrious journalist, eager to make a name for  |        |
| himself, will soon stumble across the facts surrounding     |        |
| expatriation of wealthy **individuals.**  After all, it\'s  |        |
| not that hard to run across that info, once you start       |        |
| looking.  For example, let\'s just take two likely search   |        |
| terms that a journalist might use in such research and try  |        |
| them on the [Google](http://www.google.com/) search engine  |        |
| ([http://www.google.com](http://www.google.com/)).  Since   |        |
| we are talking about \"expatriation\" and \"capital         |        |
| flight\", let\'s use those terms.                           |        |
|                                                             |        |
| Note:  To enter a two word phrase into Google, you need to  |        |
| quote the phrase.  So, to see how easy it will be for a     |        |
| journalist to stumble across this information, go to        |        |
| [Google](http://www.google.com/) and enter:                 |        |
|                                                             |        |
| > **\"capital flight\" expatriation**                       |        |
|                                                             |        |
| On July 4, 2002, if you entered that search criteria on     |        |
| Google, you would have found that 11 out of the 42 listed   |        |
| links related to the increasing level of expatriation of    |        |
| wealthy **individuals.**  In fact, 5 out of the 10 links on |        |
| the first results page directly addressed individual        |        |
| capital flight and four of those were **Action America**    |        |
| articles.                                                   |        |
|                                                             |        |
| Even dropping the quotes in the search does not             |        |
| significantly change the outcome of the search, other than  |        |
| increasing the number of results.  One [National Review     |        |
| article](http://                                            |        |
| www.nationalreview.com/nrof_comment/comment-rugy041802.asp) |        |
| that was returned verifies, \"As taxes continue to soak up  |        |
| a larger percentage of the GDP, the number of U.S. citizens |        |
| moving out of the country is increasing\".  If National     |        |
| Review is reporting on this ominous trend, how long do you  |        |
| think it will be before other major news sources pick up on |        |
| it?                                                         |        |
|                                                             |        |
| The major media, in general, has not yet realized how       |        |
| serious this is.  But, as you can see, it\'s only a matter  |        |
| of time.  Whether the story is broken in the Wall Street    |        |
| Journal, on Fox News or through any other large news        |        |
| outlet, the other news organizations will jump all over it  |        |
| and the word will spread like wildfire.  In fact, as        |        |
| pointed out above, it actually looks like National Review   |        |
| is beginning to take notice.                                |        |
|                                                             |        |
| Many wealthy individuals are already aware of this flight,  |        |
| but have no idea how serious it is.  Oh, most wealthy       |        |
| Americans know a couple of people who have expatriated, but |        |
| they think that those expatriations were one-of-a-kind      |        |
| events and that expatriations, in general, are infrequent   |        |
| and of little concern.  When stories about expatriations    |        |
| start showing up in the media every day, they will realize  |        |
| just how serious a problem it really is and start planning  |        |
| their own escape.  (\"Escape,\" by the way, is the common   |        |
| term used by most US expats to describe expatriation.  That |        |
| in itself, is a sad commentary on where our government has  |        |
| brought us.)                                                |        |
|                                                             |        |
| Other Americans, who are already in the process of planning |        |
| to expatriate, will speed up their departure, knowing that  |        |
| in response to such news, the government will try to slam   |        |
| the door shut on expatriation.  This additional boost in    |        |
| expatriations will certainly become part of the news, which |        |
| will encourage even more expatriations and that cycle will  |        |
| continue until such time as the government really does      |        |
| close the borders.  But as history shows, even that won\'t  |        |
| stop capital flight.                                        |        |
|                                                             |        |
| Unfortunately, our lawmakers are so obsessed with their own |        |
| power and control, that they are unlikely to realize in     |        |
| time, that their attempts at control are only making        |        |
| matters worse.                                              |        |
|                                                             |        |
| **2) New evidence proves it is the wealthy who are          |        |
| leaving.**                                                  |        |
|                                                             |        |
| As we have shown in previous articles, there is ample       |        |
| evidence of the growing number of expatriations.  However,  |        |
| the amount of dollars concerned has been, until now, a      |        |
| matter of conjecture and projections.  This new evidence    |        |
| actually ties dollars to these expatriates.                 |        |
|                                                             |        |
| For many years now, Forbes Magazine has been publishing     |        |
| annual lists of the [400 Wealthiest                         |        |
| Americans](http://www.forbes.com/2001/09/27/400.html) and   |        |
| the [World\'s                                               |        |
| Billionaires](http:/                                        |        |
| /www.forbes.com/people/2001/06/21/billionairesindex.html).  |        |
| When most people look at those lists, they just look at the |        |
| names and net worth of the people on the lists.  But, we    |        |
| have discovered that those lists tell a much more important |        |
| story, if you dig deep enough.                              |        |
|                                                             |        |
| Since Forbes has been using the same basic procedures to    |        |
| build those lists for years, I got to wondering if those    |        |
| lists might reflect the same alarming level of capital      |        |
| flight that we, at **Action America,** have been reporting  |        |
| on.  They did.                                              |        |
|                                                             |        |
| In fact, the Forbes lists show that since 1999, the number  |        |
| of **US billionaires has dropped by over 13%,** with a 7%   |        |
| drop in average net worth, while the number of              |        |
| **billionaires worldwide has increased by over 80%.**       |        |
|                                                             |        |
| Think about what those numbers say.  Either wealth is       |        |
| leaving the United States at an alarming rate and moving    |        |
| offshore or wealthy people in the United States are losing  |        |
| huge amounts of money, while wealthy people in the rest of  |        |
| the world are making tremendously more money.  It doesn\'t  |        |
| matter which explanation you accept, because if you accept  |        |
| the second scenario, how long do you think wealthy          |        |
| Americans will continue to stay in such an inhospitable     |        |
| business environment before adopting the first scenario.    |        |
| What it comes down to is that **the land of opportunity no  |        |
| longer offers the greatest opportunity.**                   |        |
|                                                             |        |
| You won\'t find the above information quoted in any major   |        |
| media source.  I had to take it upon myself to do the       |        |
| research.  For your information, the lists that we used     |        |
| were the [Forbes 400 Richest                                |        |
| Americans](http://www.forbes.com/2001/09/27/400.html) and   |        |
| the [Forbes World\'s                                        |        |
| Billionaires](http                                          |        |
| ://www.forbes.com/people/2001/06/21/billionairesindex.html) |        |
| for 1999, 2000 and 2001.  Since the information was not     |        |
| easily downloadable, we had to copy and paste the Forbes    |        |
| data for the last few years, from dozens of web pages, into |        |
| a single worksheet.  We totaled up the number of            |        |
| billionaires in the US and worldwide for each year, along   |        |
| with their combined net worth and used that to calculate an |        |
| average net worth for each group.  If you want to go to     |        |
| that effort (3 to 12 hours, depending on the speed of your  |        |
| Internet connection), you will come up with the same        |        |
| results.                                                    |        |
|                                                             |        |
| By doing the research yourself, you eliminate a lot of the  |        |
| spin.  This is especially true, when you use non-political  |        |
| data, such as the Forbes lists.  Perhaps it is for that     |        |
| reason that nobody in the major media ever thought to use   |        |
| the Forbes lists in such a manner.  I certainly don\'t      |        |
| believe that Forbes has been tweaking their lists to make a |        |
| political statement, just waiting for someone to stumble    |        |
| across that data.  In fact, such unbiased information from  |        |
| a non-political source soundly substantiates the            |        |
| information that we have derived from many other sources    |        |
| that might be considered political.                         |        |
|                                                             |        |
| **3) Since September 11, more people who can afford it, are |        |
| leaving.**                                                  |        |
|                                                             |        |
| Within a month after the attacks on the World Trade Center  |        |
| and the Pentagon, we learned that foreign consulates of a   |        |
| couple of favored haven nations had noticed a significant   |        |
| rise in the number of requests for information concerning   |        |
| how to obtain citizenship and/or permanent resident status  |        |
| in their countries.  At that time, however, we could not    |        |
| get further information from other countries, so we did not |        |
| report on our assumption that these two countries were      |        |
| likely representative of other haven nations, as well.      |        |
|                                                             |        |
| But today, ten months after those terrorist attacks, we are |        |
| just beginning to see positive signs of a significant       |        |
| increase in expatriations of wealthy US citizens.  That ten |        |
| month delay is just about how long it would take most       |        |
| semi-prepared wealthy people to get their affairs together, |        |
| in preparation for a move.                                  |        |
|                                                             |        |
| But, to make such preparations in that short a time, a      |        |
| person would have to already have a good idea of who to     |        |
| talk to and what to do.  In other words, the only people    |        |
| who could prepare that fast would be those who were already |        |
| considering expatriation as a **risk management** move,     |        |
| prior to the terrorist attacks.  Since many tax consultants |        |
| advise their wealthy clients to maintain an up-to-date exit |        |
| strategy, as a worst case scenario, it is reasonable to     |        |
| believe that a significant number of wealthy people could,  |        |
| in fact, prepare that fast.                                 |        |
|                                                             |        |
| What\'s more troubling is that many wealthy people, who     |        |
| might have already left, were totally unprepared and are    |        |
| still planning their move.  That number could be small or   |        |
| large.  There is no way to know until they leave.           |        |
|                                                             |        |
| But, one thing is for certain.  This is adding to an        |        |
| already serious problem, caused by an **out-of-control      |        |
| IRS** and unrestrained frivolous litigation in this         |        |
| country.  In fact, if it were not for those more serious    |        |
| threats, I am sure that few of those who are leaving today  |        |
| would be fleeing the terrorist threat alone.                |        |
|                                                             |        |
| It is important to understand that the terrorist threat is  |        |
| not the primary reason that those people are leaving.       |        |
| Terrorism is just the proverbial \"straw that broke the     |        |
| camel\'s back\".  If it were not for the **out-of-control   |        |
| IRS,** the terrorist threat alone would not be reason       |        |
| enough to cause most wealthy people to leave.               |        |
|                                                             |        |
| So, added together, here is what we have:                   |        |
|                                                             |        |
| The wealthiest Americans are under attack in several ways.  |        |
|                                                             |        |
| -   IRS records show that the wealthiest 1% of Americans    |        |
|     pay over 35% of taxes and the wealthiest 5% pay well    |        |
|     over half of taxes.                                     |        |
|                                                             |        |
| -   The US taxes the wealthy just for dying.                |        |
|                                                             |        |
| -   Frivolous litigation is at an all-time high, with the   |        |
|     US having far more lawyers, per 100,000 population,     |        |
|     than any other country (ex: 307 in US, 82 in Germany,   |        |
|     12 in Japan).                                           |        |
|                                                             |        |
| The IRS is the most hated and feared agency in the history  |        |
| of the world.                                               |        |
|                                                             |        |
| -   2000 Discovery Health Channel Study of fears and        |        |
|     phobias shows that Americans fear the IRS more than     |        |
|     they fear God.                                          |        |
|                                                             |        |
| -   1999 survey of most despotic government agencies of all |        |
|     time (no longer available online) shows that Americans  |        |
|     rank the IRS number 2, close behind Hitler\'s Gestapo   |        |
|     and far ahead of the former Soviet KGB.                 |        |
|                                                             |        |
| -   The USA is the only nation in the world where citizens  |        |
|     risk losing all of their assets, due to a signature of  |        |
|     a single non-elected bureaucrat, regardless of where    |        |
|     those assets were acquired or may be domiciled.  Worse  |        |
|     yet, in a court challenge, the burden of proof is on    |        |
|     the citizen.                                            |        |
|                                                             |        |
| Wealthy Americans are taking all their money and leaving in |        |
| ominously large and growing numbers.                        |        |
|                                                             |        |
| -   Expatriation increased from less than 40,000 in 1995 to |        |
|     about 100,000 in 2000.                                  |        |
|                                                             |        |
| -   Since the wealthy are most under attack by government,  |        |
|     most at risk to frivolous litigation and most able to   |        |
|     afford to leave, it follows that most expatriates are   |        |
|     probably wealthy.                                       |        |
|                                                             |        |
| -   The Forbes data confirms the conclusion that wealthy    |        |
|     individuals are indeed the people who are leaving.      |        |
|                                                             |        |
| Signs are that capital flight is getting worse.             |        |
|                                                             |        |
| -   The terrorist threat is causing an increase in capital  |        |
|     flight, over and above expatriation caused by the IRS.  |        |
|                                                             |        |
| -   Expatriation will likely increase dramatically when the |        |
|     major media eventually delves deeper into this story    |        |
|     and begins reporting the facts.                         |        |
|                                                             |        |
| -   Major media sources are now beginning to take notice of |        |
|     expatriations.                                          |        |
|                                                             |        |
| There is only one conclusion that can be drawn from all of  |        |
| this.                                                       |        |
|                                                             |        |
| **The United States is on the verge of a crisis of          |        |
| calamitous proportion, created by an out of control IRS and |        |
| draconian laws aimed at government control of all wealth.** |        |
|                                                             |        |
| The additional fear of unbridled frivolous litigation and   |        |
| the more recent fear of terrorism, though not principal     |        |
| causes, hasten the approach of this looming disaster.  But, |        |
| rather than repeal the laws that are causing this capital   |        |
| flight, our lawmakers only make matters much worse by       |        |
| passing even more oppressive legislation, which actually    |        |
| has the effect of making matters worse, by driving even     |        |
| more wealth offshore.                                       |        |
|                                                             |        |
| History has shown that no government has ever been          |        |
| successful at using **force** and **intimidation** to keep  |        |
| citizens with means from leaving the country and taking     |        |
| their wealth with them.  Furthermore, every time that any   |        |
| government has attempted such tactics to keep the wealthy   |        |
| from leaving, their attempts, as has our government\'s,     |        |
| have had exactly the opposite effect.  The only thing that  |        |
| will keep wealth from leaving any country is the same thing |        |
| that generated so much wealth here and attracted so much    |        |
| foreign wealth to the United States in the first place -    |        |
| **greater freedoms** and **less oppressive laws.**          |        |
|                                                             |        |
| Since the root cause of this capital flight is clearly the  |        |
| **IRS** and since the IRS is a requirement of any method of |        |
| taxation that is **based on income,** the obvious solution  |        |
| is to adopt a method of taxation that is **not based on     |        |
| income** and therefore, does not require such an abusive    |        |
| agency to insure the payment of taxes, through the use of   |        |
| **intimidation** of citizens, prying into their private     |        |
| financial affairs and **summary confiscation** of their     |        |
| property.                                                   |        |
|                                                             |        |
| There are several such viable replacements.  But, since     |        |
| time is of the essence, we must concentrate on those        |        |
| proposals that already have some support, are part of the   |        |
| national discussion and exist as proposals in Congress.     |        |
|                                                             |        |
| There are currently only two such proposals that are        |        |
| expressed in the form of bills in Congress.  These two      |        |
| bills are the [**Fair Tax Act of                            |        |
| 20                                                          |        |
| 01**](http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:H.R.2525:) |        |
| ([H.R.2                                                     |        |
| 525](http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:H.R.2525:)) |        |
| and [**Individual Tax Freedom Act of                        |        |
| 20                                                          |        |
| 01**](http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:H.R.2717:) |        |
| ([H.R.27                                                    |        |
| 17](http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:H.R.2717:)), |        |
| both of which **eliminate the IRS** by completely replacing |        |
| the income tax with a **National Retail Sales Tax.**  Note  |        |
| that the much touted flat (income) tax is not a viable      |        |
| replacement for the current income tax, since it is itself, |        |
| still an **income tax,** and as such, would **NOT**         |        |
| eliminate the IRS.  On the same note, Americans should      |        |
| remember that our current income tax started out as a flat  |        |
| income tax.  The income tax (both flat and progressive) has |        |
| failed.  It is now time to replace it with something that   |        |
| will solve the problems that the income tax has created.    |        |
|                                                             |        |
| Expatriation of our wealthiest citizens and the loss of our |        |
| largest companies will continue until either the income tax |        |
| is replaced with a method of taxation that does not punish  |        |
| citizens for the successful acquisition of wealth or the US |        |
| economy finally implodes from lack of native investment     |        |
| capital.  Failure to soon replace the income tax with a     |        |
| **NRST** is a recipe for certain economic disaster.         |        |
|                                                             |        |
| This has become a critical issue.  **Action America**       |        |
| encourages our readers to study the two **NRST**            |        |
| proposals.  To learn more about those proposals, go to      |        |
| [Americans for Fair Taxation](http://www.fairtax.org/)      |        |
| (AFFT) and [Citizens for an Alternative Tax                 |        |
| System](http://www.cats.org/) (CATS).  Most of all, we urge |        |
| you to contact your                                         |        |
| [Congressman](http://www.house.gov/writerep/) and           |        |
| [Sen                                                        |        |
| ators](http://www.senate.gov/contacting/index_by_state.cfm) |        |
| and let them know that, come the next election, you will    |        |
| register your dissatisfaction in the voting booth, with any |        |
| of your elected representatives, regardless of party, who   |        |
| fail to actively support the **NRST.**                      |        |
|                                                             |        |
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| 2000, 2001, 2002 John Gaver\                                |        |
| All rights reserved.                                        |        |
|                                                             |        |
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|                                                             |        |
| **[Tick-Tick-Tick - The Economy Bomb[\                      |        |
| ]{.underlin                                                 |        |
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| [US Taxpatriates                                            |        |
| List](http://www.actionamerica.org/taxecon/taxpats.html)**  |        |
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| ]{.underline}The Tax Foundation IRS Data\                   |        |
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| Affairs) (Dead Link) [[\                                    |        |
| ]{.underline}Health Insurance Portability & Accountability  |        |
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| 1996](http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/26/877.html)**     |        |
| ([26 USC 877(a                                              |        |
| )(1)](http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/26/877.html))**[[\ |        |
| ]{.under                                                    |        |
| line}](http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa193.html)[Immigration |        |
| and Nationality Act of                                      |        |
| 1996](ht                                                    |        |
| tp://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/8/1182.html#1182.b_10_E)** |        |
| ([(INA) sec. 212(A)(10)](http:/                             |        |
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|       [8 USC 1182(a)(10)(E)](h                              |        |
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| ]{.underline}](http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa193.html)The  |        |
| Economic Impact of Replacing Federal Income Taxes\          |        |
|       [with a Sales                                         |        |
| Tax](http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa193.html) (CATO)\       |        |
| [Fair Tax Act of                                            |        |
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| 01](http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:H.R.2525:)** |        |
| ([H.R. 25                                                   |        |
| 25](http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:H.R.2525:))\ |        |
| [**Individual Tax Freedom Act of                            |        |
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| 01**](http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:H.R.2717:) |        |
| ([H.R.27                                                    |        |
| 17](http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:H.R.2717:))\ |        |
| [**Americans for Fair Taxation**](http://www.fairtax.org/)\ |        |
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| Alliance**](http://www.salestax.org/)\                      |        |
| [**How to Hide Your A\$\$et\$ and                           |        |
| Disappear**](http://www.pankau.com/books.html)\             |        |
| [**Escape From                                              |        |
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| [**Escape Artist**](http://www.escapeartist.com/)\          |        |
| [**Expat World**](http://www.expatworld.net/)\              |        |
| [**Second                                                   |        |
| Passpo                                                      |        |
| rts**](http://www.escapeartist.com/passports/passports.htm) |        |
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