A reform that continues to depend on taxing income will keep the IRS in place. It may be rebranded. It may be chastened for a time, but it will be there to come clawing back into your life in due course.
unless you are Al Sharpton, Charlie Rangel or Jesse Jackson.
The author keeps referring to the US as a democracy...
We are not a democracy, we are a republic!
This is an important distinction that keeps getting convoluted and / or obfuscated (by design in many cases).
This article is a hot, steaming pile of crap.
Income taxes aren’t a fraud or a deception on anyone, they’re just a bad way to raise revenue. A consumption tax being the obvious alternative.
How about that? We could throw out about 70,000 pages of regulatory details and rules and nobody would have any reason to lobby for this or that special treatment in the future.
Not to mention that we could get rid of maybe 90-95,000 of our 100,000 IRS employees.
A tax that encourages investment. No special treatment possible. I’ll vote for that and anyone who supports it every single time.
The so called Byzantine tax law is far worse...... it is American
The power to tax is the power to destroy. — Edmund Burke
It means after taking max on my 401(k), withholding the max plus more, all charity donations, and any deductions I can I will still get to write a 5 figure check on top of what was withheld.
“Politicians will never do anything about the intrusive, bureaucrat-laden IRS. They may attempt reform, but with a careerist Congress any real move will be defeated...”
Wait. People are expecting the same people that CREATED the IRS, illegally started SS/MediXYZ/welfare, exempt themselves from a myriad of Laws (if not EVERY), fail to prosecute those which Laws they are NOT exempt and ....To police, pull-back and/or dismantle that which they can use for their own benefit??
Year after YEAR they hold the ‘town cryer’ abuses w/ a ‘promise’ to fix that which is not broken, but BEGUN that way (IE: It’s working as designed).
Hell, there’s FR posters whom think the IRS, Fed. Reserve and 16th are just dandy; just don’t point out that ‘fair share’ doesn’t cover EVERYONE (though they use services as much, if not more, than others), the reversal of presumption of innocence, no Amendment was passed to allow Congress to pass their powers to others and/or the violations of the 4th, 5th and 13th.
The Socialist education has done what an invasion could not...tear down the Republic.
It means I just sent a check of all my leftover and saved money to the government for all the needy women and children!
We won’t get rid of the IRS until we burn DC to the ground and all our misreps are recalled to the states, jailed, or killed. Plus we’d get rid of a lot of other problems by doing that also. Um, just sayin’.