[raybbr]

Really? Seriously? Ask lifelong addicts to simply stop stealing from their neighbors and friends to fuel their addiction? I LOL’ed.

[Mr. Douglas]

I’ll just post this once: Ignoring the FedGov itself, MILLIONS OF AMERICANS depend on the federal income tax for their livelihood. And this includes high paying and VERY high paying jobs in law, accounting and security.

The only way we’re getting rid of the federal income tax is a collapse of the federal government itself.

i.e. it will not be voluntarily.

So get used to it.

[Taxman]

Well, Ms. Keiffer did not go far enough!

She should have expanded her essay to make the case for replacing the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolishing the IRS!

Find out how you can help us do that at https://www.fairtax.org.

We will never be a FRee people so long as we have and income tax and an IRS!

PS If you would like to get on (or off of) my FAIRtax ping list, please FReepmail me.

[RayChuang88]

We really need the flat tax that Steve Forbes proposed some 21 years ago.

The current income tax system has 75,000-plus pages of tax code so complex that it makes James Joyce's famously unreadable Finnegans Wake almost readable by comparison. And it's costing American residents over US$1 TRILLION per year in compliance and economic opportunity costs. No thank you.

Going to a flat tax like Forbes proposed would free up nearly $800 billion per year for more productive activities like actually growing a business. And that will trigger off the next American economic boom--a boom that will "raise the boat" of economies around the world in the long run.

While I like the idea of FairTax, we need this flat tax now so we have a transition period to put into place the entire mechanism for FairTax collections nationally before the income tax is finally phased out.

[Neoliberalnot]

Look at who holds the majority of federal jobs. Last figure I saw, 32% were held by Africans and yet they are 13% of the population. The jobs have the highest pay for pushing paper, answering the phone, highest benefits and shortest years to full retirement. But, but, we have to do more.

[Neoliberalnot]

Count me in favor. National sales tax of about 10% is all that is needed and would end the freeloaders paying nothing.

[DoodleDawg]

bfl

[Gen.Blather]

In 2008 there was only $900 billion dollars in circulation. Much of that money is in foreign banks, owned by foreigners and used to satisfy their nation’s debts with other nations. (That’s a unique and privileged position occupied by the United States. Obama tried to end this advantage by suggesting using a basket of currencies instead. Treason? I think so.)

Now, the US economy is worth much more than $900 billion but the economy doesn’t operate on cash. Actually, the cash aspect of the American economy is probably one of its smallest components. So, under the guise of an economic stimulus Obama added an addition $900 billion dollars. They just whipped it up out of nothing and threw it into the economy.

How did the economy respond? It was like hitting a dead man with a cardiac stimulator. Nothing happened. So, because Democrats throw money at every problem in 2010 they added an additional $900 billion. Again, nothing happened.

True, stock prices went up, but with the purchasing value of every pre-2008 dollar suddenly diluted the rise in stock prices merely reflected inflation. Okay, Democrats thought, maybe we were too fast with the cash. From that point they started adding $87 billion per month in something called “quantitative easing.” How did the economy respond? Nothing. Flat line.

If the government can simply wave a magic wand and get all the money it wants, why does it take taxes from citizens? Further, what is the hidden tax of diluting the money supply? (A coffee pot I bought at Walmart in 2008 was $8. The identical coffee pot a week ago was almost $14; a 57% increase. That, is a hidden tax on my savings.

Hey, Government! Just print whatever you want and leave my money alone. The tax will be paid in the increased cost you have leveled on savers.

[central_va]

More tariffs and less income taxes.

[OIFVeteran]

You may not agree with an income tax but to say it is unconstitutional is a bald face lie. A constitutional amendment was past therefore it is constitutional. That is how our constitution works.