it would be beneficial to have a bill in advance of the 2026 midterms
What is this means tested crap? The rules should be the same for everybody.
Eliminating the 1040 would require a massive re-write of the entire social welfare system in this country, along with the distribution of what are currently welfare payments who identify as non-refundable credits.
Why not pay off the national debt first?
Wait a minute there pal....Did he get permission from Judge Boasberg to do this?
Need to get rid of the 16th Amendment as part of the deal or the government parasites will later reinstate income tax and go on a spending spree.
In 1994, after the GOP retook Congress, Texas Rep. Dick Armey promised the abolition of the income tax and the IRS. Didn’t happen.
Trust the GOPe/uniparty at your own peril, as of now these redistribution of wealth thieves are putting us in further debt some $2,000,000,000,000 a year.
And this is exactly why those spend-a-holics frequently lose the mid-terms with regularity, voter turnout is anemic for this reason.
How about you just pay off the debt and Give stability to SS and Medicare?
He has my vote, but I want to leave the next generation with at least that stability.
Sounds good, but I don’t know how practical this is. If we stop importing from other countries and bring back manufacturing here, then the money collected from tariffs will be less. Will it be then be enough to support the military, police and other government services? I would be in favor of a flat tax, say 5% - 10% depending on income. Much simpler filing. Takes me half day to do taxes every April and I hate it. Have to down a couple bourbons afterwards.
So... We finally paid for WW 1... Before World War 1 personal income taxes didn’t exist in most countries.
Taxes were levied on land owners, businesses and through import and export taxes... I.e. Tariffs. Then some politician and several rich people decided that instead of the rich paying for the war... The people should pay for it. And we’ve been paying personal income taxes ever since.
I will take “Things that will never happen for $200, Alex.”
Won’t do much good unless you prohibit the states from raising their income taxes to capture what the feds stop collecting. Th interplay of state and fed is a long-term waltz designed to keep governments from collecting as much income from the citizens as the citizens will tolerate.
Also, we sometimes forget that much of the power of the federal government has been accretions from the cowardly state governments who want monies but don’t want the citizens blaming them for high taxes. So, in return for being the taxing “bad guy”, the fed gets to flex more and more power against both the states and the individuals. While changing the source of federal funds would work somewhat, you have to rein in the states before the citizens would see the real benefits.
There goes the democrats election rigging and squandering lists.
I think he is referring to the oft mislabeled wage tax that they call income via SCOTUS Glenshaw-Glass court case. The penumbras were just getting started in 1952. They needed to feed the beast. If it included real income, then that’s great too. The wage tax as implemented should be apportioned and has been unlawfully collected for 60 years.
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The numbers say he is wrong. We do not import enough - in dollar terms, to tariff imports enough to get anything near what the federal government is spending or even just what it ought to be spending. You could tariff imports 100% and it would not be enough.
Income tax is indentured servitude and indentured servitude -- without the freely-given consent of the indentured -- is SLAVERY.
The first national income tax in the USA was created by the Revenue Act of 1861, which was signed into law by POTUS Abraham Lincoln.
So the man who allegedly "freed the slaves" in fact enslaved the entire nation.
Trump says Americans may soon pay ‘no income tax’ as White House explores alternative revenue streams
If When PDJT47 succeeds with his plan for no income tax, then he needs to do the following. He needs to make his no income tax legacy permanent by leading the states to end the post-17th Amendment ratification (popular vote for federal senators) Congress's ongoing abuse of its 16th Amendment (direct taxes) powers by leading the states to repeal those amendments.
The 16th Amendment (16A) has turned into the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for organized crime, front-ended by deep state Congress.
Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature. —Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Consider that a resolution to repeal 16A was introduced as recently as 2021, but was unsurprisingly ignored.
We'll call the repeal amendment Trump's Boston Tea Party II Amendment.
Once unconstitutional federal taxing and spend is stopped, the states will ultimately find a tsunami of new revenues that they probably won't know what to do with imo, healthcare, including taking care of the poor, and education, on the short list of priorities.