Posted on 09/14/2013 3:33:06 PM PDT by JOHN W K
In one of Mark Levin's Liberty Amendments he promotes keeping alive taxes calculated from profits, gains and other incomes.
If one wants to judge the motives and character of those who advocate changes to our Constitution, there are two specific issues which give us a clue: (a) the manner in which Congress fills our national treasury; and (b), what our nation uses for “legal tender”. In other words, “its all about the Benjamins”. So, let us take a look at issue (a) and ask ourselves why does Mark Levin offer to perpetuate taxes calculated from profits, gains and incomes which is a tool of despotic governments and particularly embraced by our progressive domestic enemies?
To fully understand this issue one must first be informed about the progressive movement of the late 1800s and early 1900s, a movement which was, among other things, intentionally designed by its leadership to enslave the working class person, not to mention seizing an iron fisted regulatory control over America’s businesses and industries.
In 1913 the leadership of the progressive movement convinced the working person [that’s your ordinary working person] to get behind the 16th Amendment. It was sold to the working person as a means to get those greedy corporations to pay their “fair share” in taxes.
During the 16th Amendment debates we find Mr. HEFLIN agitating the working class people into supporting the amendment by saying “An income tax seeks to reach the unearned wealth of the country and to make it pay its share.” 44 Cong. Rec. 4420 (1909). Note the wording “unearned wealth“ as distinguished from earned wages.
And this was shortly after Mr. BARTLETT of Georgia had begun the class warfare attack by preaching to the working poor: As I see it, the fairest of all taxes is of this nature [a tax on gains, profits and unearned income], laid according to wealth, and its universal adoption would be a benign blessing to mankind. The door is shut against it, and the people must continue to groan beneath the burdens of tariff taxes and robbery under the guise of law.” 44 Cong. Rec. 4414 (1909).
But what these cunning con artists really had in mind was to create a tax allowing the expansion of the federal government’s manipulative iron fist over the economy which would eventually be used to squeeze the working people’s earned wages from their pockets in a more devastating manner than any tariff has ever done, and make them dependent upon government for their subsistence! But they cleverly waited for one generation to pass after the adoption of the 16th Amendment and a war to begin before completing their mission which the imposition of the Temporary Victory Tax of 1942, not letting a crisis go to waste!
Roosevelt’s class warfare tax expanded the “income tax” upon corporations and businesses to include a 5 percent “temporary” tax upon working people’s earned wages. And although the 16th Amendment was sold as a way to tax “unearned income”, the temporary tax on working people’s earned wages was sold as a patriotic necessity in the war effort. But somehow Roosevelt’s class warfare tax, which robs the bread which poor working people earned by the sweat of their brow, is still to this very day being collected, and its burden has constantly increased over the years, forcing millions upon millions of poor working people into a state of poverty and then dependency upon government for their subsistence, an outcome which is needed by corrupted political leaders to maintain a permanent and captive voting block!
Now, with this in mind the question is, does Mark Levin’s proposed Liberty Amendment to reform taxation offer real change, or is it a “fan dance” to keep alive the source of power which is now used to create an iron fisted control over America’s businesses, industries and working class people? Why does Mark Leven avoid getting to the root cause of our miseries and could be ended by adding the following 32 words were to our Constitution?
The Sixteenth Amendment is hereby repealed and Congress is henceforth forbidden to lay ``any`` tax or burden calculated from profits, gains, interest, salaries, wages, tips, inheritances or any other lawfully realized money
These words, if added to our Constitution, would return us to a consumption based taxing system, our founding father’s ORIGINAL TAX PLAN as they intended it to operate! And, they would remove the evil power Congress now exercises which has socialized America‘s once free enterprise system. The words would also help to end Congress’ current love affair with class warfare, which it now uses to divide the people while plundering the wealth which America’s businesses and labor have produced.
JWK
“Honest money and honest taxation, the Key to America’s future Prosperity“ ___ from “Prosperity Restored by the State Rate Tax Plan”, no longer in print.
Levin has stated taxes should be paid within a few weeks of the elections, this in itself would help to keep any federal taxes low, April 15th was chosen as a tax day as it is one of the furthest days from election days, Mark Levin’s idea would reverse that...
Exactly correct, the progressive income tax must be abolished!
Just as I suspected. You haven’t read the book. I suggest you read all of his books before you pass judgement on one part of his proposal. You know nothing of what you suppose to speak of. You aren’t fit to wipe his boots.
I have been promoting our constitution's original tax plan for almost 30 years.
Thanks, eh? When all else fails, try reading the directions. Amazing things often happen.
Boiling down the rhetoric as simply as possible, Mark Levin promotes a flat tax (15%) And you’re promoting a consumption tax, which is pretty much what the Fair Tax is.
Which is better? Beats me. When we have the states-led Convention (the Congress will never do it), I’d suggest two competing amendments. And we can decide then.
I dunno...let’s ask him and see.
Quoting from Mark's proposed amendment: SECTION 2: The deadline for filing federal income tax returns shall be the day before the date set for elections to federal office. (Page 75 in the book.)
Brilliant.
You can "surmise" all you want, but you offer no evidence about what Congress was thinking in 1790 and 1795. There are other logical possible explanations.
Were the 1790 Act not repealed, Congress could redefine who was eligible to be president.
No not at all.
And of course you document this claim with a direct quote from Levin, right???
Levin is not calling for a Constitutional Convention!
Mark Levin is doing his part. What are you doing other than posting vanities on a conservative website?
Mark Levin is doing his part. What are you doing other than posting vanities on a conservative website?
LIKED IT SO MUCH I’LL POST IT TWICE
“It cannot be a coincidence that the media and Republican movers float one naturalized citizen after another, Jindal, Haley, Rubio, Cruz, for 2016 when we have so many who are natural born.”
You rant in favor of precision, and then you write this nonsense. Neither Cruz, nor Haley, nor Rubio, nor Jindal is a naturalized citizen. Each and every one of them was a citizen at birth.
No.
Levin proposes that federal taxes be paid the day before election day.
Since “the rich” are no longer the only people who use imported articles, what Jefferson concluded from that fact is no longer necessarily true.
I am for the FAIR Tax. It would “penalize” “the rich” by taxing only NEW consumer goods.
Which is better? Beats me. When we have the states-led Convention (the Congress will never do it), I’d suggest two competing amendments. And we can decide then.
If its calculated on income, the takers still have no skin in the game. Maybe I lack the necessary understanding, but, everyone consumes, so I'd like to see a consumption tax ( like I don't a,ready, LOL!)
JWK
Are we really to believe the founder of fairtax.org., Leo E. Linbeck Jr. and Herman Cain, both former ringleaders of the federal reserve banking cartel which plunders our national treasury?
I suspect you have never read H.R. 25, the alleged fairtax.
Want to get the payment of the tax more in line with the elections? Force all the citizens to go onto a July fiscal year instead of a January fiscal year. That will make the tax bill fall on November 15.
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