Are you listening?
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. WollsteinHOW 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:
Alan Keyes Interview with Des Moines Register:
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.
Richard F.
Thanks for posting.
Were it not for the "income" tax, most attorneys in America -- whether they specialize in divorce, bankruptcy or tax law -- would be out of work, and rightfully so. It's a multi-billion-dollar fraud that has the tacit approval of every lawyer and CPA in the country.
The last year I used a lawyer (or anyone else for that matter) to do my taxes, I started asking him questions during our annual hair-pulling session such as "How can the government compel me to send it information it can then turn around and use against me?" and "Sir, did you know there's a Miranda warning in the 1040 instruction booklet and does that therefore mean 'I have the right to remain silent'?". He became very vague and muttered something like, "Well, taxes have been around since Julius Caesar". By the end of our (last) meeting he couldn't even look me in the eyes anymore.
It's a hoax, people.
As long as the IRS keeps showing up with guns and leans to take out one tax payer at a time, ruin one family at a time, no one will object.