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To: Badray
After the FT is in place, the IRS infrastructure will be gone making the re-imposition of an income very difficult from both and operational standpoint as well as making the voters angry. Once you start getting your entire paycheck, will you let it be stolen from you again?

Simple answer, no. But this isn't simple. If the 16th amendment is not repealed their is nothing, especially "voter anger" that will stop the politicos from reforming the Income Tax. 50% of Americans do not pay Federal Income Tax. Without a repeal; you can't hear those porkers saying, "we're only going to tax the rich"?

I don't know about you, but I can.

123 posted on 04/17/2006 12:27:37 PM PDT by The Shootist
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To: The Shootist; Badray

I think the roundabout answer is still "No".

Congresscritters currently pay only enough attention to their constituents to make it sound like they care. Their attention is split by lobbyists for business interests. The less the government interferes with business, the less lobbying those business interests will do, so untaxing business will remove a lot of the lobbying that goes on -- along with a lot of the campaign finance. That will leave Congresscritters listening to their constituents. In particular, those constituents that donate heavily to their campaigns.

Those wealthy donors will fund other candidates rather than be fleeced again. I tend to think they've learned their lesson over the last 90 years and won't let it happen to them again.

If the government gets hungry for money, I think they'll focus on the remaining social-engineering taxes -- raise fuel taxes "to reduce reliance of foreign oil and to save the environment" and alcohol taxes "to discourage the associated health problems", etc. You know, places where the minority they pounce on won't have an impact on their re-election campaign finances.


127 posted on 04/17/2006 2:04:57 PM PDT by Kellis91789 (Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ~)
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To: The Shootist

If we can get the FT passed, there will be enough support to get the amendment passed too. Those who try to reinstitute the IT will be hung from the nearest tree and I'll chip in for the rope.

(We can't shoot them because it's illegal to possess a gun in DC.) LOL


129 posted on 04/17/2006 2:56:30 PM PDT by Badray
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