http://zeugmaweb.net/histdocs/income_tax.html.
Personally, I do not believe the tinkering with rates and deductions do enough to kill the beast. Today, the vast majority of the code is concerned with identifying exactly what is considered income. Regardless of what is done with the rates, this infrastructure will remain, as well as the requirement that you waive your 4th/5th Amendment rights, and the huge infrastructure in place to collect all of this data from you, employers, and investment houses.
The real solution is to dump the income tax completely by repealing the amendment that authorized it, and going with a straight national sales tax. I figure 10% would be about right, because God only asks for 10% and the government surely doesn't deserve more than God. If that's not enough money to run operations, then it is time to take a chainsaw to departments and agencies until it does.
> “Actually, your recap of the 1st income tax isn’t quite correct. On my website, you’ll find a page about it, that includes a PDF of the original income tax form and the instructions that it came with. It is 4 pages total.”
Thanks for posting your link but you’re talking about the form, not the code. The code was 14 pages long.
Almost correct. Fix your sentence to state:
The real solution is to dump the income tax completely by repealing the amendment that authorized it, and going with a straight national RETAIL sales tax.
> "I figure 10% would be about right, because God only asks for 10% and the government surely doesn't deserve more than God. If that's not enough money to run operations, then it is time to take a chainsaw to departments and agencies until it does."
Fine 10% it is except you will need to cut everyone's social security check in half or extend the retirement age to about 95.
You're smart enough to see that more work needs to be done rather than just blowing hot air about the level of tithing etc. I'm not criticizing you so much as I am egging you on to think and work further because you're on the right path.