Mark Levin would be wise to have a long talk with the folks at the Mises Institute (mises.org) like Tom Woods, Lew Rockwell and Peter Klein. They would be able to advise him on a way to structure taxes that would respect liberty and be economically beneficial.
Why don’t you call him....or better yet ping him.
Perhaps he is actually a ‘statist’ who is leading a disinformation campaign for bh0? On the other hand, perhaps he chose 11 amendments that he thinks have the best chance of passing the state legislatures?
Perhaps neither of the above? Or perhaps both of the above?
I like Levin [very much], but he’s probably ignorant of economics as most lawyers are.
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And here I was led to believe the top ~30% of the pyramid pays ~90% of the taxes. The bottom ~70% pays little or nothing. Patronage is in control of the tax system now and soon it’s gonna become impossible to change it. Too many little people don’t even have to work to make a good living anymore with tax credits, welfare and whathaveyou. Way too many are riding in the wagon and way too few are pulling it.
Mark is advocating a process. He is not wedded to any single amendment as worded. I am not sure I’m comfortable with each either but nobody else is doing a damned thing.
Mark Levin is doing his part. What are you doing other than posting vanities on a conservative website?
"The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied (emphasis added). … Our revenues liberated by the discharge of the public debt, and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings." --Thomas Jefferson to Thaddeus Kosciusko, 1811.
But since there no way that the rich can presently afford to pay for Congress's irresponsible spending, it would be up to the rich to do the following. The rich would have to police Congress to make sure that Congress complies with Justice John Marshall's official clarification that Congress is prohibited from spending tax dollars on anything that it cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers and other constitutionally mandated expenses.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Ask Levin
Levin has stated taxes should be paid within a few weeks of the elections, this in itself would help to keep any federal taxes low, April 15th was chosen as a tax day as it is one of the furthest days from election days, Mark Levin’s idea would reverse that...
Exactly correct, the progressive income tax must be abolished!
Boiling down the rhetoric as simply as possible, Mark Levin promotes a flat tax (15%) And you’re promoting a consumption tax, which is pretty much what the Fair Tax is.
Which is better? Beats me. When we have the states-led Convention (the Congress will never do it), I’d suggest two competing amendments. And we can decide then.
I dunno...let’s ask him and see.
And of course you document this claim with a direct quote from Levin, right???
DEFUND/DISMANTLE BIG GOVERNMENT/BIG TOTALITARIAN (IRS/FED) and its collectives, foreign and domestic. BIG GOVERNMENT = BIG TAXES
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
http://www.usa.gov/directory/federal/
BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM.
“Socialism Is Legal Plunder” - Bastiat
taxes would be small
—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.