WRONG! It's none of the little Brown Shirts in governments business how much any of us make. The passage of an "income tax" was the first major step to tyranny in this country. Property taxes are possibly even worse. YOU SLAVES OWN NOTHING! You merely rent your lives from the control freaks in charge. Sales taxes on new goods and tariffs on foreign goods should be the only way a legitimate government should be able to fund itself.
And here’s an article from the New York Times all the way back from 2004:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/13/politics/campaign/13tax.html
Not only did the IRS remove people from income tax rolls, it gave them money that they hadn't even earned in the first place!!!
Now not only do millions of Americans get this money, even illegal aliens who file taxes (presumably under false SS nos.) get money that they've not earned.
Now less than one-half of Americans pay any income taxes. Whenever a tax reduction is proposed, these very same American non-taxpayers, scream about "the rich getting tax breaks."
I can even go one step further - only those who pay taxes have any right to vote!!!
Non-taxpayers vote in people who promise to take from those who do pay taxes and give to those who do not, get elected. Non-taxpayers vote in people whose aim is to take even more from the taxpayers!
Now the government is demanding that we give up our private health insurance so that we can pay into a pot to continue the wealth transfer through the so-called "health care" business. Anyone who shows up at an emergency room is treated whether they can pay or not. The rest of us pay for their bill. If that's not bad enough, now Obama is demanding that I give up an insurance policy that I pay for in favor of his kind of "government insurance." Congress sure as hell is not going to be forced into this scam and neither is any government employee!!!
If this isn't financial tyranny and slavery, I don't know what is.
Eliminate “earned income tax credit” and make those welfare cases pay income tax.
If they don’t earn anything charge them a penalty!
A TAX POEM
At first I thought this was funny...then I realized the awful truth of it.
Be sure to read all the way to the end!
Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table
At which he’s fed.
Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.
Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for peanuts Anyway!
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.
Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think..
Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.
Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his a__.
Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won’t be done
Till he has no dough.
When he screams and hollers,
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He’s good and sore.
Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he’s laid..
Put these words
upon his tomb,
‘ Taxes drove me to my doom...’
When he’s gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise axes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (42 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury axes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Tax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Sales Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service FeeTax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recu rring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, and our nation was
the most prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in
the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
What in the world happened? Can you spell ‘politicians!’
And I still have to ‘press 1’ for English!?!?!?!?
I hope this goes around THE USA at least 100 times!!!!!
YOU can help it get there!!!!
GO AHEAD - - - BE AN AMERICAN !!!!!!
Obama has given a whole new meaning to “paying income taxes.” For many of cult followers it means getting a check in the mail for taxes that they did not pay.
Jamil Mahuad, president of Ecuador in the late nineties, did away with their income tax and replaced it with a banking services tax of 2 percent. The theory was that, doing this, all money was taxed whether legal or hot money, at the point that it entered or left the banking system.
Cash transactions weren’t taxed, obviously, but the theory was that eventually all money enters the banking system and gets taxed when it does. Credit card transactions, checks, deposits, withdrawals, whatever.
They eliminated the income tax on the basis that there was, in their system, too much fraud involved, and it was a burden for small business owners to deal with it. Banks are set up to keep track of transactions, so all the taxation would take place there, and no where else.
The Left didn’t like it, because as they said, “all advanced countries have an income tax” therefor, they should have it also.
He also eliminated their local currency and went to the US dollar, since the upper class was already dollarized. This eliminated inflation in one blow.
Within short order, he was overthrown. They brought back the income tax, but kept the bank services tax, so now they have both. Oh well. Still, it was an interesting experiment in getting rid of the income tax, and the Left went wild. The guys who overthrew him were on the payroll of Chavez, for whatever its worth.
actually no citizen should pay income tax
I disagree, NO ONE should pay income taxes they are an abomination and a terrible drain on this country and on free enterprise.
I like Ari, but he has it wrong: No American should pay an income tax!
In fact, if I had it my way, we’d all pay a consumption tax, such as the Fair Tax — and we’d only pay a consumption tax.
There would be no other taxes!
Let’s get our politicians attention (a metaphoric two by four between the running lights?), and force them to replace ALL federal taxes with a consumption tax!
And, once we get ALL federal taxes replaced with a consumption tax, then we replace ALL state and local taxes (including property taxes) with state and local consumption taxes!
It is long past time to make April 15th just another nice spring day!
And throw the Marxist progressive income tax on the trash heap of history!
I would modify this slightly to say that everyone who pays taxes should be all that’s eligible to vote.
EVERYONE pays the same PERCENTAGE RATE of sales tax when they buy something...it should be the SAME for income tax....geesh. Give a standard deduction and then a FLAT TAX!
The FAIRTAX is a far better solution.
It would have kept poor little Timmy here out of trouble and...
What? Say again?? Oh, you say that because he was well connected, HE didn't GET into trouble?
NEVER MIND!!
Fair Tax PING.
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