Let them know that an income tax was always unconstitutional.
There is no need to repeal the 16th Amendment in order to pass this bill, as the 16th only authorizes Fedzilla to tax income, it does not require the beast to do so.
The 16th can be repealed by another measure, which we should all let our congressional delegations know that we vigorously support.
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I’m all for the Fair Tax, but only if the 16th Amendment can be repealed. I don’t trust this government as far as I can throw it.
The irs is not going away. It is the way the government steals money from productive people and gives it to indolent slobs who vote democrat.
It is over half minority, making it one of the biggest welfare organizations around.
It implements laws passed by congress to bring about social change.
Replace it with a national sales VAT tax, and in 5 years we will have both a VAT and an income tax, and both will be used for political purposes.
Not unless the bill bases implementation of the fair tax contingent on repeal of the 16th amendment.
They need to publish how much money could be saved by doing this. The IRS alone has over 120,000 employees. Or we could abolish the IRS and put them all on the border where they could shoot paper clips at illegal aliens.
Congress and the federal government should be stripped of the authority to tax individuals. Rather, via apportionment, should only tax the States.
One possible example of how this would work would be to have Congress determine how much tax revenue they will raise via taxes. Then an automatic formula determines how much each state is apportioned. I would advocate for splitting the cost into two buckets, one for the House and one for the Senate. The Senate bucket gets divided by the total number of Senators and each state is apportioned the amount for two Senators. Likewise, the House portion is divided by the number of representatives and each state is apportioned the amount of each Representative times the number of Representatives. States are then left to their own devices as to how to raise that money to pay their apportioned taxes. States with high volumes of natural resources may opt to tax the mining and sale of those resources to pay for their state taxes. Others may wish to use sales taxes or property taxes ... whatever.
This would require a system of punishments for enforcement. This could include things like the loss of votes in committees or perhaps even the loss of votes on the floor.
I am strongly in favor of a national sales tax but only if the IRS and all personal and business income taxes are abolished simultaneously with the establishment of that national sales tax. I do not trust the corrupt thugs in DC to eventually get around to abolishing the IRS.
this is good - the Fair Tax promoted by Neal Bortz is better, IMO.
No way!!! with the current tax law i can hold my taxes to 15%!!
If you’re too damn stupid to read and use the tax code to AVOID TAXES you’re too damn stupid to be voting!
Keep an eye on this. This must do a couple of things FIRST:
Include a provision that the income tax Amendment is repealed BEFORE the new taxes go in place.
That this does not turn into a VAT.
No exemptions.
Other than that, I approve of a consumption tax over a production tax.
How about, abolish the IRS, don’t replace the income tax with anything, and just shut down the whole damned federal government?
Please let your Senators and Congressman know how you feel about the IRS,The same ones we let know how we feel about illegal immigration?