Posted on 04/17/2007 11:17:05 AM PDT by JZelle
Ronald Reagan said it back in 1983: "Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive... [it] reeks with injustice and is fundamentally un-American... it has earned a rebellion and it's time we rebelled."
But what politician would rail against the country's irrational, insufferable, infernal Internal Revenue Code today, except perhaps for ceremonial purposes? Some in Congress have made distinguished careers leading the innocent and unwary through its byzantine ways and byways, occasionally constructing secret passages to favor the special interests they represent. Whole industries like accountancy and tax law have been built on it.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
And you expect a power-mad socialist (any of them) to go along with squashing the tax code...it is their life-blood and political tool for power...IMHO, we will never see a fair and flat tax system in America without radical changes.
Its a monster, all right. But, unless we also get a handle on spending, the monster will always be there. It may be a fairer, differently formed monster, but it will still be huge as long as the government hand is in a substantial (close to 50% if indirect mandates are counted) portion of the economy.
What ticks me off is social security. I`m self employed and just had to lay out an obscene amount to this scam that will unbelieveably be taxed when I`m old enough to get it back, “if” I ever get that old. It`s a freggin` joke, that amount of cash I could have thrown into an IRA or a mutual fund and got back probably 100 times the amount in 30 years.
I am surprised that no-one has mentioned the debate over the IRS and the constitutionality of our tax system. There are those who still hold that the Amendment that authorizes the IRS and the tax system never legally was ratified. I even read somewhere that a federal judge once actually said as much in a ruling - but I don’t recall where I read that.
Of course - regardless of the constitutionality of the issue, it will remain the giant monster as long as our government continues to believe in forced redistribution of wealth.
FAIRTAX.com
The complexity has me nearly immobilized. I've been reduced to simply sending checks, big ones, to the IRS, hoping they'll wait patiently for 2005. I'm still working on it.
I can't be the only one this is happening to.
There appears to be a good bit about it:
http://political-resources.com/taxes/16thamendment/default.htm
Line 1: How much did you make last year?
Line 2: Send it in.
Line 1: How much did you make last year?Line 2: Send it in.
ROFL. So that's what a flat tax is!
Why doesn't the IRS just offer these as alternate instructions on the 1040?
As well as a good bit to debunk it:
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