Posted on 04/24/2017 4:46:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
Tell President Trump to ask Congress to end the federal income tax so that you and I can reach our full potential for wealth.
This weekend, President Trump tweeted that a: “Big TAX REFORM AND TAX REDUCTION will be announced [on] Wednesday.” This is great news. However, as we go through the process of improving the tax code, we must encourage our politicians to do two things:
1.) Eliminate the unconstitutional federal income tax.
2.) Reduce hidden taxes that politicians eternally use to offset tax “cuts”—namely increases in federal spending.
America turns 241 years old in July. We’re still a “baby” nation in contrast to Rome, which recently celebrated its 2,770th birthday. Now, consider that for the first 126 years of our country’s existence—which is longer than the second half of its existence—there was no such thing as a federal income tax.
How did our country thrive without income taxes for 126 years? Answer: federal spending was significantly lower than it is today. In the early 1900s, government spending accounted for roughly 7% of our GDP; today, federal spending accounts for around 35% of our GDP.
Tom Hanks and Kim Kardashian are more familiar to the average American than tax facts. One in two Americans believes that the federal government relies on personal income taxes to fund at least three quarters of its operating costs, according to a new survey by Ipsos. In reality, income taxes only fund about a third of total government spending.Most Americans, in other words, greatly overestimate the importance of income taxes. And the only reason there currently is a “need” for income taxes is because our country has dramatically increased overall spending. Solution: eliminate both income taxes and excessive spending.
Not Who We Are
Politicians love to slam policies that they disapprove of as: “Not who we are.” Well, the current tax setup in the United States is certainly not rooted in the foundation of freedom that our Founding Fathers established.
The federal income tax was implemented via the 16th Amendment to the Constitution in 1913—over 100 years after our Founders wrote the Constitution.
“A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.” Sounds like a simple description of the U.S. tax code, right? Yes, and it’s also a direct quote from Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto. Marx wrote that a progressive income tax was the second-most notable requirement for implementing the “Communist revolution.” Great.
Our founders understood that your first piece of private property is your body and the fruits of any labor completed through the toil of your mind and/or body are exclusively yours. All just human law is rooted in natural law (reason) and there is no natural law indicating that the government has a right to the fruits of your labor. Taxing labor is a form of extortion.
Young People: Get Involved Now
A new Census report finds that the majority of Millennials desire full-time employment by the age of 22, however, only 37% find full-time work by age 22.
Thanks to meager economic prospects and high student debt—one in three Millennials is living at home with their parents. Twelve years ago, in 2005, the majority of young people in the majority of states (35 states) “lived independently in their own household,” reports the New York Daily News. Today, the majority of young people live independently in only five states.
34-year-olds with master’s degrees living in their parents’ basement and 28-year-olds with law degrees working as coffee baristas are becoming startlingly common in what should be the Land of Opportunity.
I realize that only 19% of my generation voted in the 2016 presidential election, but I entreat them to get involved in tax reform now—and demand the elimination of the federal income tax. Otherwise, even when young people do land steady employment, they will struggle to buy a home, start a family, or build a retirement fund if Uncle Sam skims increasingly higher amounts off their income in the form of taxes every year.
Congress has the ultimate power to alter our tax code, but President Trump—like presidents before him—can aim Congress in the right direction by proffering specific tax reform legislation.
Tweet at President Trump and let him know that you support his efforts at tax reform, and particularly wish to see the elimination of income taxes combined with a corresponding decrease in total government spending.
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The only way we’re getting rid of the federal income tax is a collapse of the federal government itself.
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$20T+ in debt, $120T+ in unfunded liabilities, QE 3+, ‘rules\regs’ out out the wazzoo and 50.x% not paying a dime of income tax....
Who’s got the pool going on just how long the ‘democracy’ facade continues??
‘Til they confiscate (steal) the 401K/Roths? IMO, more people would voluntarily slap on the shackles if they thought they’d be cared for like property...just look at the welfare system.
Yup. It’s why I moved from Seattle to a farm in rural KY in 2011..
The IRS are like aliens.
They like to probe you... : )
10% tax across the board. No exceptions. Free rides must end.
“We will never be a FRee people so long as we have and income tax and an IRS!”
You’re dead on, absolutely right, yet even though the income tax is more than a century old, just a few years ago I was attacked on FR any time I suggested that this is NOT a free country! I notice that such statements are not attacked so vigorously now. I pray that the Donald can change things and he seems to be working hard to do so but I don’t know how freedom can be restored when it appears that the majority of Americans, even those who claim to be freedom loving patriots, don’t seem to have a real concept of freedom. Most would accept something far more restrictive than our actual constitution will allow and call it freedom even though it is far removed from true freedom.
I will see my 73rd birthday in five weeks and while the situation during my childhood was far better than now nothing close to real freedom has existed in this country during my lifetime. Those who think otherwise either lack knowledge or have a vastly different idea of freedom than I have ever had.
Isn’t it amazing that that same 13 percent insist that they are the oppressed victims of white racists who enjoy something called “white privilege”? Every day I search for my white privilege and cannot see a sign of it anywhere.
Lying and conning is part of African culture. Multiculturalism provides support for diversity, which, of course, is our strength.
As I understand it selling USED goods would not require paying the tax. No doubt some would try to sell new without paying but at least you would be able to go to the flea market as often as you liked to sell used stuff without being taxed. I hate the crazy sales tax on used cars in this state, if you want to sell your old vehicle to your neighbor he has to pay the same sales tax rate as on a new vehicle and since there is a cap on the tax on a new vehicle someone buying a beat up used car may end up paying the same amount in sales tax as a rich person buying a new Ferrari.
WEll, my FRiend, you are there.
The FAIRtax IS a 23% import duty, albeit paid at the retail checkout counter! And, it is legal by GATT definitions!
That is just one of the beautiful features of the FAIRtax.
Please! I implore you, go to https://www.fairtax.org and read all about it!
FAIRtax ha no exemptions nor exceptions.
FAIRtax will be levied on all retail sales of new goods. Used goods will not be taxed.
FRom you lips to Trump’s ear, Principled!
Greeeeeen Acres is the place to beeeee!!!
You may not agree with an income tax but to say it is unconstitutional is a bald face lie. A constitutional amendment was past therefore it is constitutional. That is how our constitution works.
There is, of course, no question that the FAIRtax is far and away a better tax than ANY income tax!
FAIRtax will be administered by the individual states, who are, trust me, EXPERTS at chasing down cheaters. I don’t expect cheating to be a major problem with FAIRtax.
There are five states without a sales tax: Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire and Oregon. They have the choice of “harmonizing” their tax structure with the FAIRtax or of allowing the Fed to administer the tax. I predict that they will all implement a state sales tax.
I further predict that the states that currently have a state income tax will abolish their income tax and likewise “harmonize” their taxes with the FAIRtax.
States and businesses will be compensated for collecting the FAIRtax which will eliminate the unfunded mandate which the income tax currently imposes on businesses and individuals.
And, the IRS will shrink in size to the point that all the Feds will have to do is count the money!
It will also be renamed!
A fair Tax doesn’t favor domestically produced goods. That is why a tariff is necessary. To promote domestic industry.
The income tax fundamentally altered the relationship between the American people and the government.
Prior to the 16th Amendment being passed, We the People were the masters and the government was our slave.
Subsequent to passage of the 16th, We the People became slaves. And, you are correct, very few realized what had happened. The only discussion we have been having since 1913 is what percentage slave are we?
We fought a Civil War (well, The War of Northern Aggression!) over slavery. It seems to me that the form of slavery we all have had to endure since 1913 is worth fighting to end!
That master/slave relationship will flip back in favor of We the People when FAIRtax is the law of the land!
I’ll be 76 in two weeks. Been advocating for the National Retail Sales Tax since April 17, 1991. FAIRtax is at the top of my Bucket List!
True, but folks will try to buy wholesale (no tax) and sell as used (no tax). How will someone track that? And it will need to be tracked.
There, will, unfortunately, still be a role for the IRS.
I believe that is a matter of opinion if the income tax is constitutional or not as it was not established until 1909 and not by the founding fathers
The FAIRtax levels the playing field between domestic and foreign goods.
It is called FAIR TRADE!
I am most definitely NOT in favor of laws that discriminate either for or against American goods!
America can compete with ANY country on price, quality and availability of goods, and that should be the criterion.
Then you are being an idiot.
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