My handle, "Taxman" is an ironical and black humor derivative of my avocation and passion: For 12 years I have been working to replace the income tax with a National Retail Sales Tax and abolish the IRS.
If FSP comes to FRuition before my life's wok is done, I'll relocate and continue my work at the National level FRom wherever we are!
BTW, you can take it to the bank that I will work to ensure that the FSP has a consumption tax only!
And, since I do not do popular culture, and in any event never thought much of the Beetles (if I thought of them at all) when they were popular, I was unaware until several years after I became a FReeper (in Nov, 1998) that they had written a song for me!
Now, I kind of like the Beetles songs, and am proud to be the Taxman!
“I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” [Thomas Jefferson, letter to Benjamin Rush, 1800.]
Click here to help us scrap the Code, scrap the IRS and abolish the VLWC!
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We will never be a truly FRee people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.
I can't complain; my kid was born that year. Perhaps Orwell saw that coming and knows what his plans for the rest of us are....
My handle, "Taxman" is an ironical and black humor derivative of my avocation and passion: For 12 years I have been working to replace the income tax with a National Retail Sales Tax and abolish the IRS.
Did you by chance share your effort with the late FReeper Chief Negotiator, who had some similar interests and activities?
If FSP comes to FRuition before my life's wok is done, I'll relocate and continue my work at the National level FRom wherever we are!
Good on ya! I can't at all claim expertise or deep knowledge on the subject, but it is an important one. I hope you don't mind pings or referrals on the subject from me when questions on the subject get beyond my admittedly limited ability to field them.
BTW, you can take it to the bank that I will work to ensure that the FSP has a consumption tax only!
Again, I'll not claim particular expertise as to whether sales tax, VATs, or what-have-you should be used for such governmental funding. But I darned well expect them to be at the bare-bones minimum possible, and as minimally intrusive as can be made to happen while remaining functional. I look forward to your effort and interest in seeing that happen as can best be accomplished.
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