Before 1913 Americans kept all of their income

X ^ | March 6 | @its_The_Dr

[RandFan]

@its_The_Dr

Rep. Thomas Massie just reintroduced the “End the Fed” bill to abolish the Federal Reserve.

[napscoordinator]

Begin by abolishing Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, etc.

We would end up with a 300 seat democrat house and a 75 democrat senate. If we’re lucky to have seats at all.

[Mlheureux]

Taxing income and property is BS.

[telescope115]

I would be in 8th grade forever, I think….😣

[central_va]

Free Traitors™ are offended....Income tax over tariffs is their motto

[central_va]

How about this? Republicans of century ago knew right from wrong.

1924 GOP platform:

The Tariff

We reaffirm our belief in the protective tariff to extend needed protection to our productive industries. We believe in protection as a national policy, with due and equal regard to all sections and to all classes. It is only by adherence to such a policy that the well being of the consumers can be safeguarded that there can be assured to American agriculture, to American labor and to American manufacturers a return to perpetrate American standards of life. A protective tariff is designed to support the high American economic level of life for the average family and to prevent a lowering to the levels of economic life prevailing in other lands.

In the history of the nation the protective tariff system has ever justified itself by restoring confidence, promoting industrial activity and employment, enormously increasing our purchasing power and bringing increased prosperity to all our people.

The tariff protection to our industry works for increased consumption of domestic agricultural products by an employed population instead of one unable to purchase the necessities of life. Without the strict maintenance of the tariff principle our farmers will need always to compete with cheap lands and cheap labor abroad and with lower standards of living.

The enormous value of the protective principle has once more been demonstrated by the emergency tariff act of 1921 and the tariff act of 1922. We assert our belief in the elastic provision adopted by congress in the tariff act of 1922 providing for a method of readjusting the tariff rates and the classifications in order to meet changing economic conditions when such changed conditions are brought to the attention of the president by complaint or application.

We believe that the power to increase or decrease any rate of duty provided in the tariff furnishes a safeguard on the one hand against excessive taxes and on the other hand against too high customs charges.

[central_va]

#TariffsAreFreedom

[central_va]

Tariffs have historically served a key role in the trade policy of the United States. Their purpose was to generate revenue for the federal government and to allow for import substitution industrialization (industrialization of a nation by replacing imports with domestic production) by acting as a protective barrier around infant industries.[1] They also aimed to reduce the trade deficit and the pressure of foreign competition. Tariffs were one of the pillars of the American System that allowed the rapid development and industrialization of the United States.[2]

[sphinx]

Yup. And that’s why we don’t deal with runaway spending, unfunded entitlements, and eventual bankrupcy or sovereign default. It’s all driven in the long run by entitlements.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Yes thanks to Tariffs.

[dragnet2]

“””Taxing income and property is BS”””

100%

[central_va]

Taxing imports is the way to go.

[central_va]

And replaced by something much simpler, easier, fairer, far less burdensome, lower much lower in amount, and free of abuse by those in power

Tariffs.

[faithhopecharity]

Tariffs would certainly be better than this pernicious income tax

Add some significant cost cutting
Today the report is that Trump is getting rid of the so-called department of education

That’s a good start

[faithhopecharity]

Tariffs would certainly be better than this pernicious income tax

Add some significant cost cutting
Today the report is that Trump is getting rid of the so-called department of education

That’s a good start

[dragnet2]

A good start? The procession of corrupt politicians before Trump would have never ever considered it. Bush didn’t, Reagan didn’t...Zip nothing!

Thank God for Trump!

[faithhopecharity]

agreed