With the IRS the taxpayer is presumed guilty until proven innocent.
The tax code is incredibly complex. Forty accounts at Money magazine -- this was about fifteen years ago when the tax code was considerably smaller -- each did the tax returns for a family of four. None of them arrived at the same amont of tax owed.
In a study, when calling the IRS help-line, 40% of the answers given were wrong.
The overwhelming negatives of the tax system need not be exaggerated for the speak for themselves.
The income tax system is intentionally deceptive. For example, people think the taxes withheld from their paycheck and/or the tax-"bill" they pay on April 15 is how much they pay in taxes. That's a deception because they are unaware of the taxes they pay when they by a loaf of bread or other product and service. A portion of the product's price is passed along by the seller to the government as business income tax. For you, the consumer, the tax you pay that is embedded in the price of products and services is out of sight, out of mind -- yet paid out of your wallet.
Honesty and justice demands that the accuser/prosecution/IRS bare the burden of proof. The defendant/taxpayer is innocent until proven guilty.
The income tax and IRS is a bushel of warts. Ugly and unwanted.
Of the various tax systems offered to replace the present system the FairTax has by far the most grassroots support than any other; the most support from businesses, big and small; the most support among economists. The FairTax has been much more thoroughly researched than any of the others and probably more than the others combined. The most notable being the VAT (value added tax) and the flat tax.
With ample proof of the warts on the income tax and the abuse of citizens by the IRS there's no reason to exaggerate the negatives They alone speak volumes for (read: against) the income tax and IRS.
For that same reason in juxtaposition to the FairTax there's no reason to exaggerate the benefits of the FairTax. As many people have voiced their opinion: anything would be better than the tax system we have now. Likewise, the FairTax is winning over, by large and widening margins, evermore people businesses and economists than the VAT and flat tax. There's simply no reason to exaggerate or be deceptive in educating people about the FairTax.
The smell of a skunk is what it is. The smell of a rose is what it is. That's a spot on analogy of the juxtaposition of the income tax and FairTax.
There's a small cadre of anti-FairTax posters on these threads. Why they are anti-FairTax and what their vested interest is in maintaining the present status quo is irrelevant not just by the number of pro-FairTax people that dwarf them, but rather, becasue...
“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.” – Victor Hugo
Note that lewislynn responded to one of my posts by pointing out an inaccurate technicality. Wow. The irrelevancy of that little exchange is so tiny, so wee, so miniscule to the ideas that we are tossing about on this forum that one must feel a sort of pity. One would except that LewisLynn is not your typical poster. He is of the Maureed Dowd, Molly Ivins ilk in that he finds tiny little cracks and tries to make canyons out of them - as if he were some sort of earth moving item himself.
But then one would have to doubt that lynn is a real debater. This forum is all about honesty, facts, debate. Something that has long gone out of our major media outlets. Thankfully it has been rejuvenated on talk radio and here.
So, lewis. Why on earth would you tax my income as I toil away to earn it? Why? I need to create some wealth for myself as do millions of others. Why not wait until I spend those fruits of my labors? Why can't you wait until then? What is so important about you taking away part of my income? Part of the money I am using to build assets, part of the money that I make every day? Why can't you wait until I spend it?