Posted on 10/24/2005 11:47:42 AM PDT by JZelle
The president's tax reform panel's report is due at the end of this month, but don't hold your breath if you were looking for the reform that is really needed. Preliminary signs are the panel will recommend relatively modest (but several desirable) changes to the federal tax system. For decades the present income tax system, with its tens of thousands of rules and regulations, has been widely recognized as so complex no one human, no matter how talented, can understand it.
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Yeah, another campaign promise up in political smoke. TAX REFORM should be in my oxymoron dictionary...all it will be is bad news, if any news. Expect only more redistribution of wealth.
That AMT is pure BS!! Aimed at the very rich but never indexed to inflation, now it's oozing down into the middle class.
That AMT is pure BS!! Aimed at the very rich but never indexed to inflation, now it's oozing down into the middle class.
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The Tax Code should be torched and dumped. It is nothing but a political weapon that Washington pols use to get the support they need from select groups. It is also a vehicle for socialism.
We need a flat tax system, a fair tax system, whatever you want to call it. Something that removes the pols hands from the whole issue and treats EVERY WORKING AND NON-WORKING CITIZEN EQUALLY AND FAIRLY. You make a buck, you pay a dime --- I don't care who you are.
Then all this crap will end.
Outstanding post!
Outstanding post!
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Tks! Well, it is a huge problem. The pols are drunk on our tax dollars and they cannot stop taxing and spending, or more accurately, they DON'T WANT TO!!!
Something has to be done. Taxation is totally out of control at all levels.
Things are moving along fine with Fairtax; http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1505596/posts?page=10#10
Seven more Senators and Congressmen to sign up in support of Fairtax is nothing to bulk at.
Seven more Senators and Congressmen to sign up in support of Fairtax is nothing to bulk at.
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Well let's hope that translates into something MEANINGFUL...such as true tax reform that benefits the taxpayer, and not Washington politics.
If anyone would like to be added to this ping list let me know.
John Linder in the House(HR25) & Saxby Chambliss Senate(S25) offer a comprehensive bill to kill all income and SS/Medicare payroll taxes outright and replace them with with a national retail sales tax administered by the states.
H.R.25,S.25
A bill to promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national retail sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.Refer for additional information:
You make a buck, you pay a dime
You spend a buck, you pay 2 dimes --- I don't care who you are.
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.
The Intent of the individual income tax is for political and social control, not revenue collection. The Individual Income tax is maintained to establish and hold every person in the country perpetual legal jeopardy. That is a situation that must end with the repeal of the income tax from the statutes, and the prohibition of its use by Constitutional amendment that future generations will not face the same manner of manipulation and interference in their lives.
Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him."
- T. Coleman Andrews, Commissioner of IRS, May 25, 1956 in U.S. News & World Report.
"In Kelo v. New London, the United States Supreme Court held that government may take property that belongs to one person and give it to another. That is hardly surprising. Government today does little else." -- Timothy Sandefur"The point to remember is that what government gives it must first take away." -- J.S. Caldwell
"In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other." -- Voltaire (1764)
"Theft is theft even when the government approves of the thievery. Turning a democracy into a kleptocracy does not enhance the stature of the thieves, it only diminishes the legitimacy of the government." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." -- George Bernard Shaw
"Too many voters are already bought -- not by corporate campaign donors, but by the government itself." -- Joseph Sobran.
"THE PRIMARY ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IS TO INCREASE THE SIZE OF GOVERNMENT." -- NEAL BOORTZ's "UNIFIED THEORY OF POLITICAL DYNAMICS"
"Politicians don't like empowered individuals." -- Neal Boortz
"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos." -- H. L. Mencken, 1919
-- all from THIS PAGE
"Theft is theft even when the government approves of the thievery. Turning a democracy into a kleptocracy does not enhance the stature of the thieves, it only diminishes the legitimacy of the government." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
That line right there makes her my choice for the SCOTUS, but I know I'm dreaming.
Last time I peeked, it was up to 45 cosponsors in the House.
I heard a year ago it was up to 52 cosponsors in the House alone.
I believe that's right and it looks like it'll go beyond that soon.
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