ViRedd
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"Taxation is one of the restraints that is consistent with a free society. There are some things, such as roads and military defense, that wouldn't get done if we didn't pay for them collectively. They have to be paid for with some kind of tax. That's why taxation has been a hallmark of nearly all societies for a long time."
Picasso ...
Your little essay reads as though it was taken from notes written by an IRS prosecuting attorney.
I agree that taxation is necessary in order to live in a free society ... but I don't agree that a tax on labor is one of those necessary taxes.
Interstate highways are funded (or should be) by the federal tax on gasoline. The military could be funded by a consumption tax, or tariffs.
In your article, the author, whom ever he is, makes the common mistake of equating "slavery" with whips and chains. The type of "slavery" I'm referring to is economic slavery. Why in the world would you, or anyone else, want to live in a society where government reaches it's hand 3000 miles across the country, to grab a portion of one's paycheck before one even has the chance to see the money? Do you realize, that by allowing government that leeway, you/we are losing the chance to invest your/our own money AS WE SEE FIT in order to earn a profit on it.?
There is a much better way ... and it was spelled out by the founders of the country: excise (sales) taxes and tariffs. Think about this for a second ... When you pump the gasoline into your car, a portion of the price as indicated on the pump register is going for local, state and federal taxes. When you're done pumping, you put the pump back, get into your car and drive away. The taxes are paid, but there are no forms to fill out, no audits, no fines, no levies, no courts and no jails. Excise taxes are the taxes of free men. A tax on income (labor) is a tax on economic slaves.
The federal income tax (16th Amendment) was the fruition of the love-child of the envious welfare statists/communists who lived in the United States in the late 1890s and early 1900s. It was their way of reducing wealth, while at the same time, building their welfare state. And now, as a result, we are saddled with having to turn over to Cesare our financial confessions every April 15. If every penny isn't reported, every "I" dotted, every "T" crossed, the goons at your local IRS office can make your life a living hell. At last count, the IRS code numbers in excess of 66,000 pages ... an impossibility to understand. That's not the America I want to live in, nor do I want my children or grand children living in it either ... not when there is a much better way.
Vi
Picasso ...
Your little essay reads as though it was taken from notes written by an IRS prosecuting attorney.
I agree that taxation is necessary in order to live in a free society ... but I don't agree that a tax on labor is one of those necessary taxes.
Interstate highways are funded (or should be) by the federal tax on gasoline. The military could be funded by a consumption tax, or tariffs.
In your article, the author, whom ever he is, makes the common mistake of equating "slavery" with whips and chains. The type of "slavery" I'm referring to is economic slavery. Why in the world would you, or anyone else, want to live in a society where government reaches it's hand 3000 miles across the country, to grab a portion of one's paycheck before one even has the chance to see the money? Do you realize, that by allowing government that leeway, you/we are losing the chance to invest your/our own money AS WE SEE FIT in order to earn a profit on it.?
There is a much better way ... and it was spelled out by the founders of the country: excise (sales) taxes and tariffs. Think about this for a second ... When you pump the gasoline into your car, a portion of the price as indicated on the pump register is going for local, state and federal taxes. When you're done pumping, you put the pump back, get into your car and drive away. The taxes are paid, but there are no forms to fill out, no audits, no fines, no levies, no courts and no jails. Excise taxes are the taxes of free men. A tax on income (labor) is a tax on economic slaves.
The federal income tax (16th Amendment) was the fruition of the love-child of the envious welfare statists/communists who lived in the United States in the late 1890s and early 1900s. It was their way of reducing wealth, while at the same time, building their welfare state. And now, as a result, we are saddled with having to turn over to Cesare our financial confessions every April 15. If every penny isn't reported, every "I" dotted, every "T" crossed, the goons at your local IRS office can make your life a living hell. At last count, the IRS code numbers in excess of 66,000 pages ... an impossibility to understand. That's not the America I want to live in, nor do I want my children or grand children living in it either ... not when there is a much better way.
Vi