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There’s libraries full of debates on the best way to tax.

Income tax, Property tax, excise taxes, use taxes, value added taxes, flat taxes...all have pros/cons.

What we do know is that any “progressive” tax is flat out unfair and penalizes success. The fact that some people use the system to become hyper rich is an indictment of the system, not them. They just be playing the game by the rules. Cars aren’t bought on a sliding scale of income and neither should government “services”. A flat tax would make far more sense. A national sales tax is one better because it DOESN’T tax income not spent, thereby allowing wealth creation and growth.

ALL of these ideas beggar the original problem: the Federal government has NO BUSINESS reaching into the States and taxing individuals. It took an Amendment to make that possible.

If the States United want to fund a federal government then they should all get a dues bill every year that they have to pay to be in the club. The State legislatures can then be free to figure out how they want to make that money, and the populace will be free to evict their representatives if they don’t like the way they do it.

The problem with the original Confederation of States (under the Articles of Confederation) was that the States would not pay their dues, which was rather churlish. There have been many mechanisms to cure this proposed; don’t know which one is right. May think about it more now that there might actually be a chance of doing something about it. The current Constitution tried to settle the matter with customs and tariffs, but that didn’t work out so well and ended in two little dust ups: the War Between the States and the 16th Amendment. Both were abominations.

But one thing is obvious to anyone with a sense of history: the Federal Income tax and its attendant collection state is an affront to the original claims of the Revolution. It is nothing more then the resurrection of the Feud, which is all Marxism ever was: a way to enslave the peons again for the benefit of the Nobility. The new Nobility? The bureaucrats and the politicians of course. We can get by on about 10% of the numbers we currently have.

The rest will have to get real jobs and actually support themselves.