Anyone advocating a move to a NRST is advocating the continuance and enrichment of the very subsystems that are destroying our rule of law and unique form of democratic republic.
Constitution for the United States of America:
- Article I Section 8: "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States;
A LAW DICTIONARY
by John Bouvier, Revised Sixth Edition, 1856:
EXCISES. This word is used to signify an inland imposition, paid sometimes upon the consumption of the commodity, and frequently upon the retail sale.The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787
(Farrand's Records)
James Mchenry before the Maryland House of Delegates.
Maryland Novr. 29th 1787--
Appendix A, CXLVIa, page 149, S9.
"Convention have also provided against any direct or Capitation Tax but according to an equal proportion among the respective States: This was thought a necessary precaution though it was the idea of every one that government would seldom have recourse to direct Taxation, and that the objects of Commerce would be more than Sufficient to answer the common exigencies of State and should further supplies be necessary, the power of Congress would not be exercised while the respective States would raise those supplies in any other manner more suitable to their own inclinations --"
"Imposts, excises, and, in general, all duties upon articles of consumption, may be compared to a fluid, which will, in time, find its level with the means of paying them. The amount to be contributed by each citizen will in a degree be at his own option, and can be regulated by an attention to his resources. The rich may be extravagant, the poor can be frugal; and private oppression may always be avoided by a judicious selection of objects proper for such impositions. "
"It is a signal advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess.
They prescribe their own limit, which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end proposed - that is, an extension of the revenue."
Patrick Henry, Virginia Ratifying Convention June 12, 1788:
- "the oppression arising from taxation, is not from the amount but, from the mode -- a thorough acquaintance with the condition of the people, is necessary to a just distribution of taxes. The whole wisdom of the science of Government, with respect to taxation, consists in selecting the mode of collection which will best accommodate to the convenience of the people."
[Montesquieu wrote in Spirit of the Laws, XIII,c.14:]
- "A capitation is more natural to slavery; a duty on merchandise is more natural to liberty, by reason it has not so direct a relation to the person."
--Thomas Jefferson: copied into his Commonplace Book.
The NRST enables the imposition of globalist free trade (to our disadvantage) and socialism. Period.
Let me see,
Today imports come into this country essentially free of any tax(tariff or otherwise) EU & Japan for example provide a credit to thier exporters for VATs the would otherwise end up paying on their manufacures, US products are hit with their VAT entering their countries.
Our exports, meanwhile, are loaded down with federal income and payroll taxes putting use even further into a disadvantage to incoming imports.
Something definitely wrong with that picture as far as "free trade", globalist or otherwise, is concerned.
Under the NRST, products manufactured in the US would be free of federal taxes thus exported at their full potential for competitive pricing in foreign markets.
Under the NRST imports would be hit with the full federal tax when sold.
As a consequence two things are apparent:
"The Sales Tax generates a substantial export boom; the level jumps to 29.2 percent about the Base Case level in 1996[1st year], but declines by 2020, reaching 18.9 percent of this level. Imports in 1996 exceed the Base Case level by 2.5 percent, but fall to 1.3 percent below this level in 2020."
Jorgenson/Wilcox 1999
And second:
Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee,
Rep. Bill Archer (R-TX)
August 12, 1996
- "A recent survey was done, in Europe and Japan, of the major corporations and I was astounded at the results. They were asked, 'If the US abolished its income tax and went to a sales tax, would that have any impact on your decisions?' Eighty percent of the corporations said they would build their factories in the United States of America. Twenty percent said they would move their international headquarters to the United States of America."
Hmmm, "free trade (to our disadvantage) Period." NOT.
As opposed to the income tax you have said you want to keep in place:
The progressive/graduated income tax, the 2nd plank of the Manifesto of the Communist Party, by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, published in 1848. We should never forget nor overlook the philosophical underpinnings of that choice:
"The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state ... . Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property ... . These measures will, of course, be different in different countries. Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable.
Which by your admissions of the past, to assure the economic destruction of the United States.
No Thank You Mr. Terrell
Soon, there won't be enough revenue to fund socialist programs. The income tax is dead in the face of global economic permeability. The only thing that will continue the programs is a deeper government proboscis into more people. That is exactly what the NRST provides.
You're not stupid, so the only reason you stump for the sales tax is to maintain the status quo.
Over and out.