Posted on 09/07/2005 6:34:07 AM PDT by Phantom Lord
Why Boortz and Linder must be purged
Good afternoon, my dear comrades. We have a problem on our hands. It is a very big problem, indeed. A new book has been released that threatens the progress we have made in recent decades to transform the U.S. economy from a capitalist system into one more like the economy of our beloved former Soviet Union.
In 1848, our father Karl Marx wrote that “a heavy progressive or graduated income tax” is essential to the sustenance of a communist society. If Boortz and Linder succeed in tearing out the American tax code and replacing it with something simpler, we all know what will follow. A reformed government with less government spending will be the biggest blow to the new world order since the fall of the Berlin Wall nearly sixteen years ago.
The principal danger of this new “FairTax Book” is that it threatens to put an end to the woeful ignorance of American taxpayers who think that they pay less as individuals when businesses and corporations are hit with tax increases. Our methods of class warfare depend upon the uneducated American taxpayer who does not yet know that there is only one entity – the individual – who actually pays taxes in America.
In 1802, our great enemy Thomas Jefferson stated that “We might hope to see the finances of the Union as clear and intelligible as a merchant’s books, so that every member of Congress and every man of any mind in the Union should be able to comprehend them, to investigate abuses, and consequently to control them.” But, since then, we have made slaves of the American people, forcing them to pay accountants and lawyers just to comply with the law. They have been slaves to a system they do not even understand.
Think of the progress we have made, comrades. Today, about 5.8 billion work hours are spent per year to ensure compliance with the tax code. That means that yearly the lives of over 8700 Americans (assuming a lifespan of 76 years) are spent trying to figure out how to pay the government. It also means we have taken over 2.75 million people out of the capitalist system each year in order to figure out how to please the IRS. That is more than the entire work force of the auto industry, the steel industry, and several other major industries combined.
But now, our heroic efforts to cripple the capitalist system are threatened by this ridiculous new book.
Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this new “FairTax” plan is the prospect that American jobs and businesses that left years ago seeking friendlier tax structures overseas will return to America. That means America will be stronger. Clearly, comrades, if you want a stronger America you must join me in defeating this dangerous proposal.
We have fought to keep certain secrets from the Americans for many years. For example, Americans spent over $200 billion in 2003 filing IRS paperwork. Approximately the same amount of money was spent that year calculating the tax implications of business decisions. That means over $400 billion was spent just to collect roughly three times as much in tax revenues. What an absurd but ingenious system!
Think how we have been crippling the capitalists while the American people have remained ignorant. But now these inefficiencies have been exposed and this exposure threats to jeopardize the very existence of the IRS. And, needless to say, without the IRS we will never see a truly communist America.
Our greatest fear is, of course, the effect that all of this will have on personal savings. When people no longer have to put money away in IRAs and 401Ks over the long term in order to avoid taxes, what do you think will happen? Clearly, there will be an explosion in personal savings. Such savings are always followed by explosions in economic growth.
We cannot allow new jobs to be created unless the government takes all the credit. That is the communist way. And that is why these two authors are so very dangerous.
And, now, just imagine what will happen to the average retirement nest egg after all of the world’s investors are able to invest in the American economy without tax consequences. This means that the many millions of “have nots” – the ones we have been exploiting for so long - will attain real wealth that they can pass on to their offsprings.
We must get these two revolutionaries but even that will not be enough. Every existing copy of this FairTax book must be seized and burned. Then we must launch a propaganda campaign against the people of America. It will not be easy to fool the people but we must. It is for their own good – the good of the collective that we must act now. Individual freedom, autonomy, and self-reliance be damned.
Our entire world is beginning to crumble, comrades. We must capture Boortz and Linder immediately. If they resist, we will kill them. If not, we will transport them overnight to Siberia. I have nothing against Congressman Linder. But I can’t wait to get my hands on that other guy. I can’t stand the vicious SOB.
I had to click the link to see the part you omitted:
Mike S. Adams wrote this review shortly after paying his quarterly estimates to the IRS. He sincerely hopes that Boortz and Linder succeed before the auditors coming knocking on his door.
DUMP THE IRS!
Dr. Adams is great. Check out his website, particularly the hate mail.
Taxreform ping!
I'm sure his stuff has been posted here and I've read it, but man, the article got me hook line and sinker - great sarcasm.
And I definitely will check out his site.
Ah, it's just too bad the book is a crock and the FAIRTAX is a hoax.
And the "purge" begins...
Thats a mighty powerful argument you present.
If you would like to be added to this ping list let me know.
John Linder in the House(HR25) & Saxby Chambliss Senate(S25) offer a comprehensive bill to kill all income and SS/Medicare payroll taxes outright and replace them with with a national retail sales tax administered by the states.
H.R.25,S.25
A bill to promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national retail sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.Refer for additional information:
Have you simply forgotten the last 50 FAIRTAX threads? Have you forgotten Jorgenson's disavowal of the FAIRTAX org's numbers? Are you a paid shill of any FAIRTAX advocacy group?
But, Won't that just increase the level of existing corruption of Liberal (KAL., LA., IL. and WA....etc. :) State Governments ? :D
Oh my! We CERTIANLY can't have that can we!
The Fairtax proposal is, and always has been, about only one thing.
F R E E D O M ! ! !
That's my Senator!!!!!! (Go, Saxby, go!).
I want to be free to earn money without giving a large percentage of it to the government before I even see it. Other ideas are welcome.
Have you forgotten Jorgenson's disavowal of the FAIRTAX org's numbers?
You mean the same Jorgenson that assumes that businesses can steal tax withholding from its employees and do whatever it will with it as a simplifying implementation in his models?
The same Jorgenson that fails to include any reductions for tax related overhead costs on businesses with the repeal of income an payroll taxes in his simplified models?
The same Jorgenson that finds there is no loss of purchasing power for the consumer but finds instead a 3-10% increase in the purchasing power of the dollar even under the extreme conditions of replacing an income tax with the above simplifying assumptions in place?
The only thing Jorgenson had to say was his model shows that takehome pay does not decrease in noting that real wages will generally rise with increased productivity and economic efficiencies derived from repeal of the income tax and going to a retail sales tax.
You are referring to the the same Jorgenson that finds that GDP will grow by 10% in the first year,
private savings and investment would increase by over 70%,
U.S. exports would increase over 26% closing the trade gap,
U.S. production would rise at least 20% in most industries,
All obviously factors that provide increasing demand for labor (and consequently supporting wages) significantly, are you not?
Are you a paid shill of any FAIRTAX advocacy group?
Are you a paid disrupter in behalf of any Flat Tax or other Income Tax supporting group? You certainly act like one.
Dr. Adams must be a Freeper! He knows the Squirrels!
A wunnerful find ... and verry phunny!! Thanks much for posting it.
What HAVE you been (are?) you been drinking/smoking/ingesting??? You're wrong on all counts.
Get a life!
What, no book burning?
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