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Allen Waters for Congress 1st Congressional District US Inactive

THE WATERS COMMITTEE

ad creative

FAIRtax-What is It? Replaces income tax and payroll tax with sales tax

What is the FAIRtax? Repeal income and payroll taxes, close the IRS and replace with a simple, efficient and visible single rate national retail sales tax co...

Ad copy

Do you want to close the IRS? I do. I support the Fair Tax Act in Congress: Replace federal income tax with a sales tax and close the IRS. The Fair Tax is economic rocket fuel. Make a donation: WatersforSenate.com

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Performance proxies

Overall score25.8/100
Spend / Reach / Long. / Eff.0.0 · 39.6 · 0.8 · 62.6
Spend range<USD 99
Impressions2,000 – 2,999
CPM (≈ $/1k impr)USD 19.8
Est. audience size
Days live4 (2020-02-22 → 2020-02-26)
Created2020-02-22
Creative variants1 body · 1 headline
Platformsfacebook, instagram
Languagesen
CandidateRI — Allen Waters
Surfaced by“senate:Allen Waters”

🧠 AI analysis

Issueeconomy taxes
Framingissue advocacy
Message typefundraising
Emotional appealurgency
Production tierdiy amateur
Who picturednone
Symbolsnone
Call to actiondonate
Standout elementFacebook content-removed disclaimer gate replacing the actual ad creative
TacticThe ad was removed by Facebook for disclaimer non-compliance, so only the platform's takedown notice is visible, inadvertently making the policy violation itself the most prominent element rather than the FAIRtax economic pitch.

Where it ran (delivery by region)

Rhode Island100.0%

Who saw it (delivery)

45-54 · male 13.5%
65+ · female 4.4%
25-34 · male 13.0%
25-34 · female 20.9%
55-64 · male 18.0%
65+ · male 11.1%
35-44 · unknown 0.1%
35-44 · female 3.0%
45-54 · female 3.1%
35-44 · male 9.3%
25-34 · unknown 0.2%
55-64 · female 3.2%
45-54 · unknown 0.3%
65+ · unknown 0.1%

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