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Americans For Fair Taxation (AFFT), also known as FairTax.org, is a US political advocacy group dedicated to fundamental tax code replacement. It is made up of volunteers who are working to get the ''Fair Tax Act'' (/) enacted in the United States – a plan to replace all federal payroll and income taxes (both corporate and personal) with a national retail sales tax and monthly tax "prebate" to households of citizens and legal resident aliens. According to the Clearwater, Florida〔(FairTax ); Executive Leadership〕-based organization, it is the largest, single-issue grassroots taxpayers union in the United States, and claims to have signed up over 800,000 supporters. The organization states that it subscribes to the ideals of simplicity, fairness, and freedom which they believe are embodied in the FairTax. ==History== AFFT was founded in 1994 by three Houston businessmen, Jack Trotter, Bob McNair, and Leo Linbeck, Jr., who each pledged $1.5 million as seed money to hire tax experts to identify what they perceived as faults with the current tax system, to determine what American citizens would like to see in tax reform, and then to design the best system of taxation.〔 The three went on to raise an additional $17 million to fund focus groups with citizens around the country and tax policy studies.〔 Some of the experts funded include: *Professors David Burton and Dan Mastromarco, University of Maryland and The Argus Group *Laurence Kotlikoff, Boston University *Stephen Moore, The Cato Institute *Professor Dale Jorgenson, Harvard University *Bill Beach (economist), the Heritage Foundation *Jim Poterba, The National Bureau of Economic Research *Professor George Zodrow, Rice University and the Baker Institute for Public Policy *Professor Joseph Kahn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Americans For Fair Taxation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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