If the NRST is passed, the liberals will dig in their heels (will HAVE TO dig in their heels to have any chance of political survival with their constituencies) and will block the repeal of the 16th amendment.
Of course to get that income tax back into the books, they will have that little problem of getting past all those folks, including many of their constituents that remember just how bad income taxes and the IRS that goes with them really are.
Sorry the real danger lay in leaving an income tax on the books now, the stealth sales taxes await Congress's pleasure on both sides of the isle. No constitutional amendment of anykind required. Just the right Flat Tax pitch to get it in, and always saddled with the bureaucracy and personal intrusion that goes with income taxes, always.
"A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man's business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man's counting house....The law will of necessity have inquisical features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it men will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the tax payer. An army of federal inspectors, spies, and detectives will descend upon the state."
-- Virginian House Speaker Richard E. Byrd, 1910, predicting the consequences of an income tax.
Personally I prefer to see the income tax thrown out, and let them fight to put it back instead of handing them the certain victory for fear that I might have to put up resistance to a future income tax with all the barriers to enactment that exist for every bill introduced to Congress.
Bottom line the income tax must go, whatever it takes to achieve that.
| "As a matter of fact, what the income tax does — and this is the debate that I think we always try to get into in order to let you and him fight, see — and the people of this country are led down a path where the actual control of their resources, which in the end is the control over their will, is handed off to the government." . . . "The government then manipulates that will in order to destroy the freedom of our electoral system through the income tax structure, and we call the resulting slavery a free system." "In point of fact, it is not as the founders understood, and the only way to restore real freedom is to give people back control over the income that they earn so that they won‘t, at the voting booth and in other phony issues, be subject to that manipulation." |
Dear ancient_geezer,
Oh, heck, getting the income tax back is a piece o' cake.
Wait a few years, when the first crisis appears, say, "Here's the solution! Tax the rich! We'll just nick 'em a little!"
Or, let the liberal lamestream media do lots of news stories on how people can hardly afford their health insurance because they have to pay 30% on the premium.
"Introduce a 2% [or whatever percent] income tax on the rich, to pay for exempting health insurance!" will go the cry.
Then, it will be the high cost of food!
"We can add a little to the income tax on the rich to pay for that exemption!" and the lower classes will rally to their patrons.
LOL. This is too easy.
sitetest
More from Mr. Keyes:
Last week I discussed the importance of abolishing the income tax because of its tendency to form a habit of servility in the souls of a people that accepts it. Servility of soul is bad not only in itself, it is also an open door through which will soon walk the abuses of ambitious government power. Leaders who find themselves with governmental power over a servile people will be quick to conclude that such a people exist to serve them. And in the 20th century we have seen the horrors to which such conclusions tend.
President Clinton is a kind of prophetic precursor of the kind of leader we can expect increasingly to see -- naturally and easily presuming that the entire people he leads is merely an instrument of his own ego. ...
The habits of shame and respect for the rule of law will not restrain our presidents, at least until the disgraceful Clinton precedents are reversed, and the Senate's pusillanimous acquittal of Clinton shows that the people's representatives cannot be relied upon either. The break-up of centralized governmental authority over our economic lives, and above all the elimination of the income tax, has never been a more pressing moral and political imperative. We must reclaim our economic sovereignty, so we can limit the damage our increasingly corrupt political class can inflict on our property, our wills, and our character.