Abolishing the IRS is one thing, but the income tax would take 2/3's of congress and 38 states to go along, and that ain't gonna happen. Ever
On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 8:08:22 AM UTC-5, MJ wrote: > > > *Enough is Enough: Abolish the income tax > *Murray Sabrin > May 13th, 2013 > > The revelations that the Internal Revenue Service has been giving extra > careful review of the tax- exempt applications of Tea Party groups and > other “patriotic” organizations should raise the obvious question, doesn’t > an income tax lead to all kinds of abuses? > > In a free society there would be no income tax, no IRS, no tax exempt > applications, no need to spend huge sums of money each year hoping to get > the political elites to reduce their power over the economy and the > American people’s income and wealth. In addition, the federal government > would be limited, so subsidies, corporate welfare, foreign aid, etc., would > also be abolished. Since the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment, in 1913, > authorizing the federal government to levy an income tax on the American > people, the income tax has become not only a mechanism to create a multi > trillion welfare-warfare state but it is also been used for political > purposes to “scrutinize” closely groups critical of the federal government. > > According to Reuters, the “director of exempt organizations for the IRS, > apologized for what she called the ‘inappropriate’ targeting of > conservative groups for closer scrutiny, something the agency had long > denied. The director’s apology is hollow. The fact the American people have > created and continue to create hundreds of organizations to educate and > rally the public against the federal government’s overreaching economic > power speaks volumes about how far our nation has drifted into widespread > statism. > > The income tax, which initially exempted 98% of the American people with > rates ranging from 1% to 7%, has become a tool of redistribution and social > engineering, and an encroachment of free speech. Moreover, the country > prospered without a federal income tax for more than 100 years; during the > Civil War when President Lincoln got the Congress to pass temporarily an > excise taxeffectively and income tax. > > We do not need an income tax to pay for so-called government services, > most of which is about robbing Peter to pay Paul. In fact, the American > people would be better off without having to fill out the 1040 and other > forms and maintaining all the records necessary to comply with the tax > code. The income tax is a huge “deadweight” on the economy. A national > sales tax would not solve the problem either. > > Although income tax rates are down from the obscene rates of the 1970s, > they have been creeping up for upper income Americans, and income taxes > paid by the American people will continue to increase as more and more > deductions are either eliminated or capped in coming years. > > The only honorable solution to the tax-exempt organization application > fiasco and the continued assault on the American people’s income and wealth > and the unsustainable welfare-warfare state is to abolish the income tax > lock stock and barrel; and the sooner the better. > > http://murraysabrin.com/income-taxes/enough-is-enough-abolish-the-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. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
