thanks, that’s very interesting indeed
certainly we should get RID of the federal income tax, it is NOT being levied as PROMISED when the “progressives” campaigned to initiate it
they said that ‘no working man will ever have to pay a single dime in the federal income tax!’
it was sold on the basis that only the “rich pigs” or “top one percent,” to use today’s communist lingo, would ever have to pay it
Institutionally indoctrinated, constitutionally low-information state lawmakers evidently don’t understand that nearly all of the federal funding they beg for is arguably stolen state revenues. The feds steal state revenues by means of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
Here’s Supreme Court clarification of Congress’s limited power to appropriate taxes if you missed it in previous post.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824."they said that ‘no working man will ever have to pay a single dime in the federal income tax!’ it was sold on the basis that only the “rich pigs” or “top one percent,” to use today’s communist lingo, would ever have to pay it"
I commend the many wealthy delegates to the Constitutional Convention. Not only did they establish the federal government, but Thomas Jefferson had noted that many delegates and their wealthy friends paid all taxes for the feds to operate.
“The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied [emphasis added]. … Our revenues liberated by the discharge of the public debt, and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings.” —Thomas Jefferson to Thaddeus Kosciusko, 1811.
If patriots support PDJT in working with the states to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, then wealthy people and corporations can pay all federal taxes again, roughly no more than $1 trillion annually and probably significantly less than that.
Wealthy people and corporations, protective of their wealth, would be ideal to police federal budget to make sure that it reasonably complies with Congress's Section 8-limited powers.