I AM KEENLY AWARE OF THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY.

A heroic American speaks.

Are you listening?

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE Ms Jackson! WOW!!!!!!!!!! Gosh I wish EVERY American would read her statement.

During the early 1900's, many members of the United Confederate Veterans (UCV) advocated awarding former slaves rural acreage and a home. There was hope that justice could be given those slaves that were once promised "forty acres and a mule" but never received any. In the 1913 Confederate Veteran magazine published by the UCV, it was printed that this plan "If not Democratic, it is [the] Confederate" thing to do. There was much gratitude toward former slaves, which "thousands were loyal, to the last degree", now living with total poverty in the big cities. Unfortunately, their proposal fell on deaf ears on Capitol Hill.
--http://www.37thtexas.org/html/BlkHist.html

Me too.

bti

wow! :o)

BUMP FOR FREEDOM!

BUMP VOLLEY-this is just too good to miss!

Now see, this is a prime example of why I don't think that an independent confederacy would have been the low-tax, limited government nirvana that so many of you sothron supporters think it would have been. Decades before a southern president inflicted a war on poverty and all the welfare programs on us, southern veterans were advocating a massive government program to help a segment of the poor population. And how typical of the big government mentality, the people that they wanted to 'help' would have been at least 35 to 40 years old and the SCV proposed yanking them from an urban environment and dumping them on a farm plot without any concern whether they could make it as farmers or not. Did they really see this as a 'fight against poverty' thing or was it more a chance to thin out the black population?

Come on Non_Sense fess up. You are a tool of the
international banksters that are fleecing humanity aren't you?

If not; what are you?

Come on Non_Sense fess up. You are a tool of the international banksters that are fleecing humanity aren't you?

Dang. They figured us out. I hope they don't find out we're Jewish too.

bippity bopping back to the top.....altho this subject matter is definitely NOT fairtale material...this woman is the real mccoy.....SHE ROCKS!

BUMP

We ask you to stand with us and let the voice of freedom be heard from every corner of our great country. It is time to end this long-standing injustice and tyranny over the American People.

Agreed, a stirring and emotional speech but lacking a bit in details on how precisely to go about ending the income tax.

Alan Keyes makes a much more definite point and offers a resolution to the problem as well, for it is not just the individual income tax that is the problem, it is the whole system of income/payroll taxes, both individual and corporate that creates the real monster.

The individual income tax operates by the maxim of

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
-George Bernard Shaw

and is designed to pit one group of citizen against the other in a perpetual class warfare to garner votes and power into the political machine.

The payroll (SS/Mediscare) tax is sold as an "insurance" or "retairment" plan disguising its real and explicit nature of being a regressive income tax on low to middle income wage earners. It is paid into general revenues not earmark or target in anyway from other income taxes.

Finally there are the corporate/business income and payroll taxes, these are the hidden levies of taxation, quite literally a VAT in it's operation being passed down to everyone rich and poor through higher prices, lower wages, and lower returns on investment. Yet no individual citizen is every provided a receipt on the tax he pays in the price of his goods and services. On top of all, with no mention from any political sector is the more the $0.65 for every dollar of tax collected into the federal coffers that comprises the cost of complying with these taxes again totally hidden from sight and blamed on inflation and greedy business, when by rights the entire amount is directly attributable to the imposition of the federal income/payroll VAT tax system upon this nation.

We must . . . End Tax Slavery Now; Nov '97
by Jarret B. Wollstein

HOW MUCH DO YOU REALLY PAY?
     According to the Tax Foundation, in 1994 the average American paid 22.4% of his or her income in federal taxes, plus 11.8% in state and local taxes - 34.2% total.
     But that's just the beginning! Dr. James Payne of the University of California found that in addition to direct taxes we also pay huge, hidden taxes including:

Compliance costs - record keeping, monies spent on tax planning, computers and software purchased to fulfill IRS requirements, etc.
Enforcement costs - IRS audits, field investigations, service center corrections, criminal investigations, litigation, and forced collections.
Emotional, moral and cultural costs - families forced onto welfare, time and creative energy lost figuring out how to avoid taxes, etc.

     For every $1 we pay in direct taxes, we spend an additional $0.65 in compliance costs. And even that figure doesn't include the cost of import duties, license fees and other government regulations. For a typical U.S. family, the real cost of taxes and regulations is at least:
Federal taxes              22.4% of income
State & local taxes      11.8%
Compliance costs        22.2%
Regulatory costs         12.7%
70.1% of your income is now consumed by government

One answer to the issue comes from Alan Keys, who also has a great deal to say about what is wrong about the US tax monster.

Alan Keyes refers to the income tax as the slave tax that should be abolished as a moral imperative, and replaced with a National Sales Tax:

Keyes on Taxes & Government Spending:

"The income tax in effect makes us vassals to the government – the politicians decide how much income we can keep. No mere “reform” of this slave tax, such as flattening the rate, can correct its fundamental denial of control over our own money. Only the abolition of the income tax itself will restore the basic American principle that our income is both our own money and our own private business - not the government's."

"Replacing the income tax with a national sales tax would rejuvenate independence and responsibility in our citizens. True economic liberty and moral revival go hand in hand."

"A national sales tax would also put the American citizen back in control of national fiscal policy. The best way to curtail government spending is to cut taxes, because they can’t spend what they don’t get. But with a sales tax, we could deny funds to a spendthrift government – and give ourselves a tax cut – whenever we make the private choice to alter our spending and saving habits."

Alan Keyes Interview with Des Moines Register:

Conservative commentator Alan Keyes said Thursday one of the first things he would do as president would be to replace the federal income tax with a national sales tax.

The Republican presidential candidate said he favors a national sales tax of about 23 percent that would also replace the payroll tax that pays for Social Security.

The intent of the structure of the individual income tax is for political and social control not revenue collection. The Individual Income tax is maintained to establish and hold every person in the country perpetual legal jeopardy.

The National Retail Sales Tax proposed by Keyes would makes the burden lying on each and every one of us visible for the first time in over a hundred years Allowing the citizen to truly exercise that "eternal vigilance" so necessary to maintaining our liberties.

The simply, is no way that any people, can maintain that vigilence with the blinders of the current income tax plus corporate VAT of today's tax system in place.

It is long past time to end the Income Tax once and for all and get rid of the intrusive anal exam of family finances by government. Support the enactment of the only bills before congress that would actually achieve that and allow us the people to exercise our most basic responsibility of "eternal vigilance" that we may actually hold government accountable for the real burden it imposes through its largess trying to buy votes and powert from the many on the backs of the few.

H.R.2525
SPONSOR: Rep Linder, John (introduced 07/17/2001)
A bill to promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national retail sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.
Refer: http://www.fairtax.org & http://www.salestax.org

the modification then enactment and ratification of:

H.J.RES.45
Sponsor: (introduced 4/25/2001)
Latest Major Action: 5/9/2001 Referred to House subcommitte.
Title: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to abolishing personal income, estate, and gift taxes and prohibiting the Untied States Government from engaging in the business in competition with its citizens.

(Modified to prohibit all income, payroll, gift estate taxes as HR2525 calls for, or we will see European VAT style hidden taxes along with payroll excises to take over in the place of the of the current individual income tax(i.e. personal income tax) that Ron Paul amendment prohibits.)

And to keep em reminded that there is indeed a Constitution to pay attention to:

H.R.175
Sponsor: (introduced 1/3/2001)
Latest Major Action: 2/12/2001 Referred to House subcommittee
Title: To require Congress to specify the source of authority under the United States Constitution for the enactment of laws, and for other purposes.

Thanks for the ping.

Good stuff; thanks.

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