Tea Party Or Teetotaler?

I like to read Neal Boortz "Nealz Nuze" every morning because I like the way he sees things, that and the fact he introduced me to the Fair Tax. This morning he mentioned that the Fair Tax had disappeared from the Contract From America Site managed by the Tea Party Movement.

The effort here is for folks to vote on the top ten items that should be in the Tea Party Contract From America. Well, in my humble opinion, if the Fair Tax is not part of the Tea Party Contract From America, then I believe such a contract should be called the TEETOTALER CONTRACT FROM AMERICA. What have Tea Party leaders done? Let themselves be co-opted by mainstream Republicans?

I firmly believe that Fair Tax supporters and activists were the fore-bearers of the Tea Party Movement. I mean, just take a look at then number of Fair Tax signs that show up at any Tea Party Event! How could the Tea Party not support the Fair Tax?

Let's take a look at what I believe are some of the basic principles of the Tea Party and how they relate to the Fair Tax and the impact the Fair Tax would have on our country.

Basic Principle 1.
I believe that by and large the people that make up the Tea Party movement believe that politicians pay more attention to special interests than the voting public, crave power and will do what ever is necessary to keep it. That politicians don't think they have to listen to us, so they don't. As a solution, I believe that Tea Party members want to support politicians that want to change that mind set and will go to Washington to be true to that belief.
Fair Tax Solution:
The Fair Tax does away with the current tax code and the IRS. Such an event begs these questions: How do politicians today retain power over you and I? Through the ability to reward one and punish another through the TAX CODE! Who persuades politicians to manipulate the tax code for personal, or group benefits? Special Interests! If you believe this to be true, then one could argue that political types that do not support the Fair Tax want to keep their power over you through the tax code, and those that do support the Fair Tax want to put power back in the hands of the people. What a great way to validate Tea Party Support for any Republican Candidate!

Basic Principle 2.
Politicians are spending us blind, they are building debt that our children and grandchildren will be paying off, if our economic system does not collapse first! Part of this issue I believe is that Tea Party supporters do not believe that government can create jobs or stimulate the economy through throwing our tax dollars against it. Rather it is the private sector that creates jobs and will do so when there is consumer demand and less uncertainty.
Fair Tax Solution:
The Fair Tax does away with federal income withholding taxes of all types. These dollars flow directly into each tax payers pockets each pay period, not through a one time stimulus. What to do with that raise? Go out and buy something? How do you pay off debt? Revenue. Taxes reduce revenue, lower taxes increase revenue, what would no payroll taxes do to revenue? Any politician that supports the Fair Tax must be a believer in Capitalism and understands that the private sector creates jobs and prosperity, not government. What a great way to validate Tea Party Support for any Republican Candidate.

To separate the Fair Tax solution from the Tea Party Movement is a bad idea. The Tea Party Movement should be the movement of Pam, Sally, Bob, and Sam not Gingrich, Romney, and Steele.