Only violent revolution, or the destruction of the economy will liberate us.
It's a question of time.
Do you want us free in 10 years? Or 10,000?
If things continue in this lukewarm - half capitalist, half slavery society - that's the worst thing that can happen. People will grow fat, happy and complacent (errr...those that aren't terrorized personally by the police state, that is..)
Radical change is just that. Radical. It ain't pretty.
Personally, I'd rather the US die - than to see the mass of people that live in these geographic bounds exist as the slaves they will become over the next 100-200 years.
You think the Patriot Act or Klinton I was bad? Just wait...
The only remote chance we have of peaceful change, would require the abolition of withholding. But then, our 'masters' know this... why do you think we have withholding?
why do you think we have withholding?
First & Foremost: so government can give refunds and credits to the low end of the income range. Allows government to create an apparent tax favored class of citizens as a natural spending constituency as opposed to them nasty rich guys.
Walter Williams, World Net Daily, 10-25-2000
According to the most recent U.S. Treasury Department figures, ... the top 50 percent ($36,000 and over) paid 96 percent of income taxes. Guess what the bottom 50 percent of income earners paid?
If you're among those who pay little or no federal income taxes, what do you care about tax cuts? Moreover, if you think tax cuts pose a threat to government handout programs, you might be openly hostile and support Al Gore's silly "risky scheme" talk. So many Americans paying little or no federal taxes makes for a natural spending constituency. It's like me in the restaurant: What do I care about extravagance if you're footing the bill?
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
-George Bernard Shaw
Secondly, it allows the smooth operation of the quasi-VAT system of taxation we are under.
The Individual Income Tax return(1040) that captures everyone's attention each April, is merely a partial VAT accounting sheet the government cons individuals, held at ransom, into filling out.
It's misdirection puts blinders on the eyes of the voter, and totally distorts their perceptions as to the real impact and burdens of taxation in their lives.
Every man woman and child in the nation, pays federal taxes through that VAT.
DO YOU PAY YOUR INCOME TAX
AT THE SUPERMARKET?
by D. Sherman Cox J.D. L.L.M. Taxation
The ability to hide or disguise taxation from the view of large sectors of the electorate allows the Congress to get away with the advancement of the evergrowing monster that it fosters sustaining an effective majority of 70% of the public clamoring for more from government looking for someone else to foot the bill.
Finally, The Original Intent 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 and in so doing, maintains selective enforcement options such as the audit, to be applied to individuals or organizations at political whim.
Plunder Patrol
by Robert W. Lee, New American April 18 '94
Selective Enforcement
Writing in The Freeman for March 1994, tax analyst James Payne observed that to function efficiently, a tax system needs citizen cooperation, but in "the United States, high tax rates and the impossibly complex tax code have made tax evasion and avoidance a major industry." Since the tax laws are so complex, virtually everyone can be branded a tax violator at the whim of the IRS. As an IRS memorandum quoted in the March 1980 Saturday Review explained, "Agents should be able to discover errors in 99.9 percent of all returns if they want."