>> The fact the federal government has to resort to weapons in order to make people comply is a statement the existing income tax code is out of control. The federal government wouldn’t need anyone weapons to threaten and control the people if the Fair Tax was enacted since everyone would be complying at the point of sale.
But what if the businesses don’t comply? Where there is a law, there will always be people circumventing, evading or ignoring. There has to be a mechanism for enforcement — and there have to be penalties for noncompliance.
SnakeDoc
Well, then it would only be a matter of time when most all businesses would say to themselves, "What the heck, why should I bleed?"
Then the whole welfare state, hacks, projects, schemes, rackets, robbing Peter to buy off Paul, legions of semi-literate clerks, form fillers, collaborators, lobbyists, lawyers, would roam the nation staving with no productive skills. Washington would become an overgrown Detroit,......
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I thought extortion was illegal under RICO.