This is the Ramsey Call of the Day, part of the Ramsey Network.

Joining me today is Ramsey personality, Ken Coleman.

I was wondering if you have an opinion on the proposed Fair Tax Act that would eliminate federal taxes, impose

a national sales tax on new goods purchased, and eliminate the IRS as we know it.

That's the perfect question for the two of us.

I don't know two people that hate taxes more than me and Dave Ramsey.

Well, I've always been a fan of this.

In fact, I lived for years in Atlanta, and Neil Borts, who was a well-known local talk radio guy,

you're probably friends with Neil.

I know Neil.

I know Neil Well.

He was a big proponent of this and wrote a book on a show several times back in the day talking about this.

Yeah.

He had a book.

Best-selling book on this very issue. And I'm not going to endorse the book, nor am I going to endorse the policy,

but I like the direction that it's heading.

And I'll tell you why.

I think a sales tax, it forces the consumer to kind of deal with it,

and it's not the federal government mandating

what is taken from my income.

I like the flat tax idea, which is really the guts of what Neil Borts was kind of proposing,

and that's everybody pays the same tax rate.

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