#501 The FAIRtax vs Government Shutdown

December 10, 2025·29 min·2 clips

Bob explains how the FAIRtax would keep revenue flowing even during a federal government shutdown.

Fat Albert gets the first laugh. Bob Paxton and Bob Scarborough start loose, ribbing the heavy prop, the steam locomotive background, and the income tax comparison. The tone is dry from the jump. A half remembered hotel room story turns into the kind of small annoyance you can picture immediately. North Carolina gets its weather run. Football season, NASCAR season, baseball season, spring one, spring two, fake fall, and winter all get pulled into the same bit. Then the tax talk snaps back into place. S-2972 goes into the Hall of Shame pile, with its benefits sounding like part of the joke. They check the date out loud, land on December 30 for the full 2025 Tax Proposal Hall of Shame, and make it clear the stack is already getting long. The clock starts to matter. One host says they have used about half the show, then explains he has barely been breathing after nasal passage surgery. That makes the handoff practical: his partner was supposed to bring the topic, and the topic is the government shutdown. The recording date matters. They say it is October 31, around day 31 of the shutdown, while noting the episode is being recorded early. The hope is plain enough: by the time it streams, they want the shutdown done. The FAIRtax close is simple. No lawyer chase, no income games, no charity angle. Under the FAIRtax, the way to pay less tax is to consume less and choose when to buy.

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A blunt shutdown discussion that turns tax policy into everyday consequence.

Fair Tax Power Radio folds a government-shutdown conversation into its usual back-and-forth defense of the Fair Tax. The show keeps returning to the same practical pitch: under this system, people would have more control over how much they pay and when they pay it by choosing…

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You want a shutdown episode from the Fair Tax guys with live-show banter and tax-policy talk.

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