I hear ya man, but it would take a constitutional amendment to repeal a constitutional amendment, which has happened exactly once in 223 years,
On Friday, May 10, 2013 12:55:35 PM UTC-5, MJ wrote: > > > *Repeal the Federal Income Tax > *by Jacob G. Hornberger <http://fff.org/author/jacob-hornberger-2/> > May 10, 2013 > > The *New York Times* reports that 37-year-old Grammy-winning singer and > songwriter Lauryn Hill just drew a 3-month jail sentence for income-tax > evasion. She pled guilty to failing to file tax returns for three years. > She told the judge that she was unable to pay the taxes after dropping out > of the music business to take care of her children but that she did plan to > ultimately pay the taxes. Federal Magistrate Judge Madeline Cox Arleo > rejected her lawyer�s plea for probation. In addition to the three months > of jail time, the magistrate added on another three months of home > confinement. According to the *Times,* Arleo �scolded her in court for > being slow to square her accounts with the government.� > > I wonder how many Americans realize that this type of moral injustice > could never have happened in the United States for the first 125 years of > American history. That�s because our ancestors rejected income taxation, > along with the welfare-warfare state way of life that the income tax funds. > > Think about that for a moment: For more than a century, the American > people were free to keep everything they earned. No income tax returns, no > tax deductions, no IRS, no April 15 deadlines, and other such nonsense. > Instead, Americans were free to keep everything they earned and there > wasn�t anything the feds could do about it. > > That�s what Americans once called freedom. > > There was also no Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, farm subsidies, aid > to dictators, or any other welfare. That�s because our American ancestors > rejected the concept of mandatory charity. They believed that charity meant > nothing if it was the result of government coercion. > > Compare the way of life that our American ancestors lived -- one without > income taxation -- to the one in which we have all been born and raised. > Under our system, the government, as a practical matter, owns everyone�s > income and decides how much everyone is going to be permitted to keep. > While the percentage that the government lets people keep is currently > about 70 percent, there is nothing to prevent the government from lowering > that to 50, 30, or even 10 percent. The government makes the call. In fact, > if Social Security and Medicare payments to the Baby Boom generation > continue soaring, young people today might well find themselves earning, > say, $50,000 and be allowed to keep only, say, $10,000 of it. The best way > to think about this is by considering an allowance that a parent gives his > children. > > Modern-day Americans consider their system to be �freedom� even though > it�s exactly opposite to what our ancestors knew was freedom. Modern-day > Americans apparently believe that if they convince themselves they are > free, it will be reality. I suppose that�s why they keep singing �Thank > God I�m an American because at least I know I�m free� or why they > continue to proudly praise the troops overseas for �defending our > freedom.� > > What a joke. There is no way that a people can be considered free in a > society in which the government wields the power to tax their income. The > modern-day American mindset brings to mind the words of Johann Goethe: > �None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they > are free.� > > Among the most tragic parts of living in the welfare-warfare state is how > the state makes people who violate its ridiculous economic and tax > regulations feel like they are bad people. You see this especially with > respect to the war on immigrants, where undocumented workers are made to > feel bad for coming here to make some money to send back to their families. > And you see it in the drug war, where drug addicts are made to feel bad for > ingesting substances that government officials don�t approve of. And you > see it in income tax violations, where people like Lauren Hill are made to > feel bad about placing a higher priority on her children than on funding > the welfare-warfare state with income taxes. > > In actuality, none of these people needs to feel bad because in a moral > sense none of them has done anything wrong. The people who are deserving of > scolding are Judge Arleo and others of her ilk for enforcing these immoral > welfare-warfare state laws. > > What Americans need to do is confront reality: We are not living in a free > society. We are living in a welfare-warfare state, one funded by a > gigantic, intrusive system of income taxation, which is enforced by one of > the most powerful agencies in history. > > Moreover, the system under which we have been born and raised is not one > of �free enterprise� and �limited government,� as everyone is > taught to believe. Instead, it is a system that consists of a combination > of socialism, interventionism, corporatism, and imperialism. > > Then, once that reality is accepted, Americans need to decide: Do they > want to be free and, if so, how bad do they want to be free? If Americans > decide that a free society is among their top priorities, a good place to > start would be to repeal, not reform, the federal income tax. In the > meantime, President Obama ought to do the right thing and pardon Lauryn > Hill and every other non-violent offender who has been unjustly deprived of > his liberty and property by the feds. > > http://fff.org/2013/05/10/repeal-the-federal-income-tax/ > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. 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