Senator Cornyn's position on the tax issue.

Dear Senator,

I read a response that you wrote to a fair tax supporter on one of the FairTax organizations websites, and it has become obvious to me that you are missing the whole point to the FairTax movement. Your statement, "I believe our current tax system is unnecessarily complex and needs to be reformed. Thus, I support efforts to simplify the tax code by decreasing the number of tax rates and rate adjustments",
leads me to believe that you are in favor of keeping the 16th amendment in place and fix it by putting a bandade on it. This is what lawmakers have been doing for the past 1oo years and, simply stated; IT AIN'T WORKIN'.

This is totally unacceptable from our point of view. The 16th amendment is a travesty of American politics. In it's simple, unelaborated wording, it robbed the states and individuals of many of the basic rights that were passed to us by the forefathers of our country. It dismisses the citizens right to privacy, a right that was so apparent to the forefathers that it was only implied in the Bill
of Rights.

I can see where a bureaucrat would want to keep this in place. It's a source of immense power and influence. It gives corporations a reason to lavishly reward lawmakers such as you for the tweaking of the tax law at the common taxpayers expense.

Any legislation that does not include the repeal of the sixteenth amendment will not be supported by the FairTax group. We will see it as only a temporary fix to the legislative branches addiction of constantly passing law that is only self serving in the sense that it buys votes and corporate support rather than servicing the citizens and protecting their rights.

Best Regards

Robert Nathan