Steve Forbes still promoting the immoral, arbitrary and socialist flat tax

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See: Steve Forbes Says Flat Tax Fairer Than Fair Tax


March 23, 2015

‘Forbes, who has long been a vocal advocate for the "Flat Tax," joined The Costa Report to explain just how complex the current tax system has become. He says the 4 million-word code is the tip of the iceberg because it doesn't take into account millions of additional pages of interpretations, analysis, legal rulings, and other data experts must navigate to comply with the law. According to Forbes, growing complexity has increased the number of errors reported. He pointed to a recent government investigation which discovered that agents who monitor the IRS Hotline were wrong 20-30% of the time, and the IRS taxpayer assistance program had a 61% error rate.”


What Mr. Forbes refuses to acknowledge is his flat tax does not end the arbitrary interpretations of what is and what is not taxable income, or why a person’s gross annual wage is considered taxable profit or gain in its entirety without first allowing the deduction of all necessary outlays and expenses to arrive at a taxable profit or gain.


In addition, the Forbes flat tax does not end the immoral direct tax levied upon individuals which is used by folks in government as a political weapon against political foes or as a tool to intrude into a person’s private affairs, not to mention how it is used to manipulate the private lives of the American People and Americas' businesses while upsetting the advantages of a free market system which our founders established.


Finally, Mr. Forbes refuses to acknowledge his flat tax on incomes still requires a massive and costly IRS to collect the tax, and businesses and individuals to waste $BILLIONS each year to comply with income taxation. The cost of preparing and filing all business and personal income tax returns is now estimated to be $250–$300 billion each year!


It should also be noted that Mr. Forbes makes some absurd comments to defend his flat tax against the "Fair Tax" and why the fair tax is “problematic”. While I agree the “fairtax” is problematic, it is not because of Forbes’ absurd comments. One of the major faults of the “fairtax” [H.R. 25], is because it would establish two new taxes, a 23 percent tax upon articles of consumption and another 23 percent tax upon the sale of labor, while keeping alive Congress’ power to lay and collect taxes calculated from profits, gains, and other lawfully earned “incomes”.


It is interesting to note that Steve Forbes also ignores as “tax reform” going back to our Constitution’s ORIGINAL TAX PLAN which paved the way for America to become the economic marvel of the world by encouraging Congress to follow sound fiscal policies.


JWK





“Honest money and honest taxation, the Key to America’s future Prosperity“ ___ from “Prosperity Restored by the State Rate Tax Plan”, no longer in print.


 
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I can think of few things less arbitrary than a flat tax.
Like arbitrarily exempting 47% from paying "their fair share"?

Constitution was amended to allow a progressive income tax, it is now time to amend it to allow a head tax, payable in cash or labor, by all able bodied citizens.
 
I can think of few things less arbitrary than a flat tax.
Like arbitrarily exempting 47% from paying "their fair share"?

Constitution was amended to allow a progressive income tax, it is now time to amend it to allow a head tax, payable in cash or labor, by all able bodied citizens.


Exactly! Let us remember there was a time in our country when even the unemployed were expected and required to contribute their fair and equal share in meeting the expenses of government. A wonderful example of this principle is exhibited in the public laws of Maryland’s Dorchester County, under which all able bodied residents of the county above twenty and under fifty years of age were “compelled to labor two days at least in every year in repairing the roads of said county, with the privilege, however, of furnishing a substitute or paying to the road supervisors seventy-five cents for each day such person may be summoned to labor, the money thus paid to be expended in repairing the roads.”

And the law went on to indicate that “anyone neglecting or refusing to perform such labor, or to provide a substitute, or to pay seventy-five cents per day for each and every day he may be summoned to work, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon trial and conviction before a Justice of the Peace, shall be fined seventy-five cents for each day`s delinquency and costs, and shall stand committed until the fine and costs are paid.”___ SEE SHORT vs. STATE OF MARYLAND, decided February 27th, 1895, upholding the law and not violating (a) the 13th or 14th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, or (b) the 40th section of Art. 3 of the Constitution of Maryland.


And exactly what was our founding father’s thinking in a matter in which the property of one is transferred to another using government force? Representative Giles, speaking before Congress February 3rd, 1792 sums it up as follows:

"Under a just and equal Government, every individual is entitled to protection in the enjoyment of the whole product of his labor, except such portion of it as is necessary to enable Government to protect the rest; this is given only in consideration of the protection offered. In every bounty, exclusive right, or monopoly, Government violates the stipulation on her part; for, by such a regulation, the product of one man's labor is transferred to the use and enjoyment of another. The exercise of such a right on the part of Government can be justified on no other principle, than that the whole product of the labor or every individual is the real property of Government, and may be distributed among the several parts of the community by government discretion; such a supposition would directly involve the idea, that every individual in the community is merely a slave and bondsman to Government, who, although he may labor, is not to expect protection in the product of his labor. An authority given to any Government to exercise such a principle, would lead to a complete system of tyranny."



JWK


They are not “liberals”. They are conniving Marxist parasites who use the cloak of government force to steal the profits, gains and income which labor, business and investors have worked to create
 

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