FairTax Rally & Tea Party Offers Public Officials a Single Solution

Daytona Beach, FL - On Wednesday, July 1, 2009 5pm-7pm, hundreds of people from all over Volusia County will rally at Daytona Beach City Hall (301 S. Ridgewood Ave.) with a solution to the economic crisis. The FairTax Act (HR 25, S 296) is nonpartisan legislation. It abolishes all federal personal and corporate income taxes, gift, estate, capital gains, alternative minimum, Social Security, Medicare, and self-employment taxes and replaces them with one simple, visible, federal retail sales tax administered primarily by existing state sales tax authorities. In the first year of FairTax, GDP will increase by an estimated 10%.

The FairTax is the most independently researched (not a brainchild of a politician) tax reform in US history. The FairTax is the single solution to:

• the current economic crisis
• the rising unemployment rate
• fleeing corporations
• wasteful government spending
• failing small businesses
• the untaxed underground economy
• trillions of off-shore money
• the lack of transparency in taxation




“Our public officials think that printing money and raising taxes will stimulate the American economy; history proves this technique untrue. By enacting FairTax, an estimated $13 trillion in off-shore money will return to the United States and our business climate will attract companies to create jobs here,” says Kristina Bouterse, volunteer coordinator for FairTax in East Volusia County. “On Wednesday, we will rally with a solution to our economic crisis. Now is the time to pass FairTax and truly stimulate the economy.”

Rally participants request that public officials cosponsor the bill, talk about FairTax with other politicians and help bring America back to its roots. Otherwise, they will find leaders who have the interest of America at the heart of their service. Speakers include Kristina Bouterse, Zsolt Kovacs, political refugee; Crazy Eddie Colosimo, Bikers for First Amendment Rights; Jason Davis, Gulf War Veteran; and Doug Kosarek, Wake Up Daytona! and LowerTaxesNow.org.


For more information on FairTax or to schedule an interview, contact Kristina Bouterse directly. 386-986-7215 or Kristina@WingZoneDB.com. Visit www.FairTax.org.



July 1, 2009
FairTax Rally & Tea Party
Full Agenda - time approximated

• 4:50 – “FairTax is Coming” plays on repeat
• 5:05 – Kristina introduces Jim Dearborn
o Jim Dearborn leads pledge of Allegiance
o Play “Proud to be an American”
• 5:10ish – Kristina Bouterse does FairTax talk
o Play “FairTax is Coming”
• 5:20 – Kevin Niceley hypes up crowd
o start chant
o introduce yourself to your neighbor – why are you here?
• 5:25 – Kristina introduces Zsolt
• 5:25 – Zsolt Kovaks
o play “America the Beautiful”
• 5:40 – Kristina introduces Crazy Eddie
• 5:40 – Crazy Eddie
o play “2nd American Revolution”
o more Crazy Eddie
o play “Red White & Blue” Lynyrd Skynyrd
• 6:00 – play Taxation Trivia
o Kevin: invite 10 people up to the front to play the game. Get a question right, win a FairTax bumper sticker (questions coming)
• 6:10 – Kristina introduces Jason Davis
• 6:10 – Jason Davis
o play “Times, they are a Changing”
• 6:20 – Kristina offers open mic
• 6:30 – Kristina introduces Doug Kosarek
• 6:30 – Doug Kosarek
o play “FairTax is Coming”
• 6:45 – Kristina presents march around the block led by Susan Hall

Over the recent past years, the City of Daytona Beach has suffered a systemic breakdown of the public trust as a result of rampant abuses by public officials to the service of a handful of wealthy political patrons. This unprecedented corruption has driven the city into a moral and economic breakdown. Help is needed, and immediate attention from State and Federal authorities is required to break up the good 'ol boy network grip on corrupt public officials.

Capone would have drooled over the power that today's "capos" have over the local politicians in Daytona Beach; a product of good ol' boy networks, campaign contributions and undue influences that propel unqualified individuals with a nasty predisposition for corruption into power. Their patrons exert total and absolute control over a city as if it was their private ranch and much to the detriment of its citizens.

Their control extends to the institutions that are tasked with the checks and balances to protect the public, and as a result they act with impunity.

They have reaped untold riches by getting their captive public officials plunder the public trust and finance everything from overpriced sales of real estate, privileged zoning deals, selective retaliatory zoning actions against their enemies, virtual immunity against criminal state laws, and, most galling, the funding of their personal pet projects and private indulgences. All courtesy of the taxpayers, which are unknowingly funding the largesse and who now must bear a gigantic burden that will take generations to pay off.

The worst kind of organized crime is organized crime under Color of Law.

The Daytona Post

Please contact Governor Charlie Crist and urge him to instigate a corruption investigation of Daytona Beach City Government.

Phone:(850) 488-7146 [Office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time]
Fax: (850) 487-0801

email to: Charlie.Crist@MyFlorida.com

or Mail to:

Office of Governor Charlie Crist
State of Florida
The Capitol
400 S. Monroe St.
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0001

Sample of What to say:

Honorable Governor Crist:

Daytona Beach has been besieged by an unprecedented wave of local government corruption that has thrown this formerly bustling beach town into anarchy, poverty, crime and despair.

Under near absolute control of a few multimillionaire special interests, corrupt officials have literally raped and pillaged a formerly bustling beach city into the poster boy of Florida Corruption. In no other place is the "Good 'ol Boy Gang-of -Thugs" mode of government more evident and acts with more impunity.

Their control extends to the institutions that are tasked with the checks and balances to protect the public, and as a result they act with impunity with the knowledge of having literal immunity in front of the law no matter the malfeasance.

They have reaped untold riches by getting their captive public officials plunder the public trust and finance everything from overpriced sales of real estate, privileged zoning deals, selective retaliatory zoning actions against their enemies, virtual immunity against criminal state laws, constitutional violations of property and personal civil rights and, most galling, the funding of their personal pet projects and private indulgences

As a result, in Daytona Beach, corruption has reached a level that is overt and in-your-face yet it remains uninvestigated and unpunished.

Your urgent intervention is needed.

History is replete with cases of criminals that get caught and receive their just punishment. Other malfeasors, whose conscience tortures them, end up turning themselves in for their punishment. There is a third group: those without conscience, the true sociopaths that actually believe they are above the law and above the rights of other citizens.

One of the most well known examples of the second kind is the story of Raskolnikov, the fictional protagonist of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Raskolnikov is a young and handsome ex-student of law living in extreme poverty in St Petersburg. Despite his very humble origins, he considers himself to belong to a superior caste of people. Emotionally and financially stressed, he is also socially inept and neurotic about small things, such as crowded spaces. Raskolnikov fluctuates between extremes of altruism and apathy.

Raskolnikov believed that people were divided into the "ordinary" and the "extraordinary": the ordinary are the common rabble, the extraordinary (notably Napoleon) must not follow the moral codes that affect the ordinary since they are meant to be great men.

An extraordinary man would not need to think twice about his actions. Raskolnikov believes himself to be one of these extraordinary men and as such he considers it acceptable to even commit murder if it helps his utopian world. He murders an elderly pawnbroker whom he considered an inconvenient parasite to the greater good of society.

Soon after committing his crime, Raskolnikov's conscience and sense of guilt become and unbearable torture. He turns himself in to justice as he began to realize that he was not a superior being at all but just one more of that group of people he held in contempt.

The last group of criminals represents the most extraordinary danger to society. This group is composed of those that commit crimes and abuses without a sense of guilt. These are convinced and act as if they were superhuman that transcend moral and legal limits.

Dostoevsky Brilliant psychological observations depict the need of criminals and psychopaths to believe they are smarter than ordinary mortals ... that they are above certain things. So when the house of cards start tumbling - the sense of inferiority is enraging - way more than it would be to a regular person who knows he is NOT a "superman intellect".

Very far from the Russian steppes, in Daytona Beach, a small group of men and women have turned their regime into a veritable gang of thugs under Color of Law. Under near absolute control by a few multimillionaire special interests, they have literally raped and pillaged a formerly bustling beach city into the poster boy of Florida Corruption. In no other place is the "Good 'ol Boy" Gang-of -Thugs' mode of government more evident and acts with more impunity.

Their influence is palpable with the local corrupt politicians and, thanks to the magic of Quid Pro Quo campaign contributions and undue influence, infects the very institutions responsible for the checks and balances. In the Daytona Beach model of government, the "watchdogs" are controlled by the thugs.

Raskolnikov turned himself to justice without being denounced; a striking difference from the megalomaniacs ruling this poor city, convinced that their actions in favor of their patrons bear no moral or legal obligations to the people they serve.

Thus they continue to plunder the public trust, grant gifts to their patrons, deprive the local youth of educational and job opportunities, utilize retaliatory zoning enforcement to control their enemies, selectively enforce the laws (Where else can multimillionaire capos openly operate vehicles while drunk and without fear of being prosecuted under Florida's DUI laws? Where else can multimillionaire capos obtain private property without paying for it? Where else can multimillionaire capos get their corrupt poles abuse their zoning powers to take property away from its lawful owners?).

They waste the taxpayers' hard-earned dollars, cause the flight of local businesses and talent to more politically-sanitized locales, destroy jobs and, in the end sink the city into further despair.

Sooner or later, these actions will attract Federal attention and then, but only then, will Daytona Beach have a chance.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL - There's certainly strength in numbers and local officials have at hand a rising force to beckon. Joining over 1,500 similar events held around the country, the Daytona Beach - Deland Tax Tea Party drew a large demonstration of local citizens weary of abuse at the hands of corrupt, inept and wasteful politicians.

We're on a very slippery slope. It scares me half to death, you just can't stay home and be a potted plant anymore. The spending this government is doing is ludicrous.

Senior Citizen and Local Protester

While we are firing teachers and our children's education suffer because Volusia County has no money, and Daytona Beach's youth roam the streets on an unprecedented crime wave due to lack of jobs or educational or social programs, these corrupt politicians never had any qualms about gifting millions of dollars to fund the indulgences of the local millionaires - Look at the waste of ECHO funding on pet projects, the multimillion-dollar International Speedway Subsidies or the News Journal Monument to nothingness...

Local Teacher

Note - Names withheld to protect against retaliation by local public officials

The large contingent of citizens included doctors, teachers, nurses, engineers, carpenters, policemen and common folks, joined with the common goal to reign in government waste.

The local area of Daytona Beach has been hit especially hard during this economic depression due to the widespread corruption in City Hall and the overt favoritism of public funds spending on pet projects and private hobbies of multimillionaire patrons. This waste created a financial vacuum that syphoned funds away from public projects, social programs, education, job creation and fighting crime.





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