Posted on 03/27/2006 3:11:32 PM PST by Libloather
Want Tax Reform? Stop Paying Taxes
March 27, 2006
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RUSH: Here's my idea. In addition to illegal immigration, many of us in this country are fed up with the federal tax system. We're just fed up with it. But over the years we've been intimidated into obeying. We call on our patriotism tendencies and our desires to do the right thing and so forth, but admit it: We're also scared to death that that's the one thing the federal government will not stop looking for until they find it, and that's every tax cheat in the country. But yet we need reform of this system. We need to reform it.
I mean, the tax code is punitive. Fewer and fewer people are paying federal income taxes, so the opportunity to reform the program is soon to vanish because once the minority is the one paying taxes and the majority of people are not paying federal income taxes, you have no hope for reform. So how do we do it? Well, we've tried any number of ways. We've proposed legislation. We have had books written. We have had speeches given. We have had pamphlets printed. Nothing works, and the reason is that members of Congress are just not going to give up the single greatest power they have, and that's social architecture that they can engage in with the tax code.
So, since Senator Specter and since Senator McCain and all the supporters of this amnesty program say, "Well, 12 million, 11 million? We can't do anything about it! We've got to come up with some way to deal with them already here because we can't deport them." Fine, how about if I we -- and I'm speaking hypothetically, just toying with this idea -- but how about if I, El Rushbo, were to write a tax book, and the idea I have is that we just stop paying taxes. Now, just bear with me on this. Just stop paying 'em. What if 40 or 50 million of us just refused to pay taxes. What are they going to do? (interruption) Well, Mr. Snerdley is yelling that they will get me. I will sacrifice myself for the good of the cause. But if 40 or 50 million -- it's hypothetical -- refuse to pay taxes, what are they going to do? They don't have that many IRS agents; they don't have that much jail space. They might actually build jails for this, though (laughing) and call it the Rush Limbaugh Correctional Facility. They might actually do it. But then what would have to happen because the government obviously needs revenue, we need for our government to perform various basic functions. But it could be a way to change the tax code, because if 40 or 50 million people just said, "The hell with it and dropped out," they'd have to come up with an alternative way of raising the money, and that's how we would get reform. That's how we would get the FairTax, the flat tax, a national sales tax, or whatever it is, one that we couldn't avoid paying because it would arrive every time we spent money.
Now, you say, "Well, Rush, how do you we avoid paying when taxes are withheld?" I understand. I understand that. There are ways around this, but that burden would fall on the shoulders of those who are self-employed and who do not have taxes withheld. It probably would lead to changing a law in five seconds that would require everybody have taxes withheld. (laughing) But my point is if the number of illegals is simply too large to deal with, the number of criminals is simply too large to deal with, and you're not going to have any enforcement mechanism, then all of this is just a bunch of jabberwocky about immigration. It's just designed to placate you and pander to you to make you think that they reeeeeally mean it this time.
That'll piss off the auditors. Turn those folks into border patrol officers...
Interesting idea. They can't throw the taxpayers in jail because there would be no one to pay the prison guards.
Listen we are the criminals according to Specter, kennedy, Graham and the senators who are even now voting in amnesty.
Perhaps Rush would volunteer to show us the way.
My cousin works at the IRS. Just recently, she laughingly recounted the story of some poor slob who called her distraught because the tax preparer made some mistakes and now there were penalites and interest that needed to be paid. My cousin told the guy he should have made sure the tax return was accurate, after all he had signed it.
Rush is brave. The IRS has more power than any other government agency. Ask Al Capone.
Isn't Irwin Schiff in jail for expressing nearly the same thing?
This is an interesting thought. In Atlas Shrugged the productive people refused to particpate.
And the world upended/
That's completely different. In Atlas Shrugged, you had a Europe that was slipping into some strange mix of socialism and religious fanaticism, a large part of the world that hated the U.S. for the very virtues that it embodied, oil supplies in the hands of lunatics, and...
Oh, never mind.
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough... The tough get going! Who's with me? Let's go! (run's from room screaming).
Have you ever felt as if you were living in Atlas Shrugged? I have - for years now.
I remember when I was living in Central Connecticut, I was walking along an abandoned railroad track when I came upon a fallen, rusted out coal tower. Someone had scratched "Who is John Galt?" in coal on the tower side. Gave me a chill.
PFLR
Dumbing down the Ed. system may pay off yet. The Fed/Guv can't get enough help that can handle the job, and besides that they HAVE to hire the correct numbers of various mainorities, just to be fair.
Oh yeah, that will work... suddenly the Bush administration would discover laws that it could enforce against millions of people, unlike those evil immigration laws.
Not much they could do if people just wind down their revenue-generating activities and just "drop out". It would be like a slow-motion general strike.
Rush (and Jim), the government prints its own money. You cannot fight a government that can pay jackbooted thugs with fiat money that the average American will accept as legal tender. So don't pay your taxes. The good news is that your income taxes will drop to nothing. The bad news is, so will your income, 'cause you'll be in jail.
Civil disobedience only works if you cost the government WORKER something. Personal time is the only thing a government worker cares about.
To make the government care about illegals you have to make NOT picking up illegals more work than picking them up. And that demands real civil obedience. For instance, you might utilize illegals' services to knock on doors and hand out pamphlets in wealthy neighborhoods, pamphlets with the phone numbers for the Homeland Security Border Enforcement office.
That's true. A technique I've employed myself at times. Which doesn't mean you need to do without, you just stay out of the visible economy when possible. Our reconquista amigos are very accomplished at this, BTW.
Now THAT would work, if everyone productive could stand to take a sabbatical.
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