hrearden
A national lottery would be a better idea. A tax based on population
btw is called a head tax.
MJ
I like voluntary donation.
In lieu of this AND if FORCE is necessary, a Head Tax coupled with
user fees. This will necessarily keep taxes LOW and encourage them
to be CUT rather than grown.
It would at least treat EVERYONE the same.
Regard$,
--MJ
"Congress went beyond merely enacting an
income tax law and repealed Article IV of
the Bill of Rights, by empowering the tax
collector to do the very things from which
that article says we were to be secure. It
opened up our homes, our papers and our
effects to the prying eyes of government
agents and set the stage for searches of
our books and vaults and for inquiries into
our private affairs whenever the tax men
might decide, even though there might not
be any justification beyond mere cynical
suspicion.
The income tax is bad because it has robbed
you and me of the guarantee of privacy and
the respect for our property that were
given to us in Article IV of the Bill of
Rights. This invasion is absolute and
complete as far as the amount of tax that
can be assessed is concerned. Please remember
that under the Sixteenth Amendment, Congress
can take 100% of our income anytime it wants
to. As a matter of fact, right now it is
imposing a tax as high as 91%. This is
downright confiscation and cannot be
defended on any other grounds.
The income tax is bad because it was conceived
in class hatred, is an instrument of vengeance
and plays right into the hands of the communists.
It employs the vicious communist principle of
taking from each according to his accumulation
of the fruits of his labor and giving to others
according to their needs, regardless of whether
those needs are the result of indolence or lack
of pride, self-respect, personal dignity or
other attributes of men.
The income tax is fulfilling the Marxist prophecy
that the surest way to destroy a capitalist
society is by steeply graduated taxes on income
and heavy levies upon the estates of people when
they die.
As matters now stand, if our children make the
most of their capabilities and training, they
will have to give most of it to the tax collector
and so become slaves of the government. People
cannot pull themselves up by the bootstraps
anymore because the tax collector gets the boots
and the straps as well.
The income tax is bad because it is oppressive
to all and discriminates particularly against
those people who prove themselves most adept at
keeping the wheels of business turning and creating
maximum employment and a high standard of living
for their fellow men.
I believe that a better way to raise revenue not
only can be found but must be found because I am
convinced that the present system is leading us
right back to the very tyranny from which those,
who established this land of freedom, risked
their lives, their fortunes and their sacred
honor to forever free themselves..."
T. Coleman Andrews. Andrews
Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, 1953 until 1955.
