What is self-evident to me is, your love affair with taxing “income” has paved the way to our nation’s enslavement.
That's hardly the case, I am 24. I certainly didn't make any of the decisions which fucked this country up.
To fully understand this issue one must first recall the progressive movement of the late 1800s and early1900s, a movement which was, among other things, intentionally designed by its leadership to enslave the working class person, not to mention seizing an iron fisted regulatory control over America’s businesses and industries.
In 1913 the leadership of the progressive movement convinced the working person [that’s your ordinary working person] to get behind the 16th Amendment. It was sold to the working person as a means to get those greedy corporations to pay their “fair share” in taxes.
During the 16th Amendment debates we find Mr. HEFLIN agitating the working class people into supporting the amendment by saying “An income tax seeks to reach the unearned wealth of the country and to make it pay its share.”44 Cong. Rec. 4420 (1909). Note the wording “unearned wealth“ as distinguished from earned wages.
And this was shortly after Mr. BARTLETT of Georgia had begun the class warfare attack by preaching to the working poor: As I see it, the fairest of all taxes is of this nature [a tax on gains, profits and unearned income], laid according to wealth, and its universal adoption would be a benign blessing to mankind. The door is shut against it, and the people must continue to groan beneath the burdens of tariff taxes and robbery under the guise of law.” 44Cong. Rec. 4414 (1909).
But what these cunning con artists really had in mind was to create a tax allowing the expansion of the federal government’s manipulative iron fist over the economy which would eventually be used to squeeze the working people’s earned wages from their pockets in a more devastating manner than any tariff had ever done, and make them dependent upon government for their subsistence! But they cleverly waited for one generation to pass after the adoption of the 16th Amendment and a war to begin before completing their mission which was the imposition of the Temporary Victory Tax of 1942!
Roosevelt’s class warfare tax expanded the “income tax” upon corporations and businesses to include a 5 percent “temporary” tax upon working people’s earned wages. And although the 16th Amendment was sold as a way to tax “unearned income”, the temporary tax on working people’s earned wages was sold as a patriotic necessity in the war effort. But somehow Roosevelt’s class warfare tax, which robs the bread working people earned by the sweat of their brow, is still to this very day being collected, and its burden has constantly increased over the years, forcing millions upon millions of poor working people into a state of poverty and then dependency upon government for their subsistence, an outcome which is needed by corrupted political leaders to maintain a permanent and captive voting block!
This is only true, however, because of the multitude of other tax burdens the working class is forced to pay in addition to a taxation of income, not simply because their income is being taxed. In a fixed flat tax rate, everyone pays the exact same percentage of tax, and taxes of goods and services disappear entirely, resulting in a reduction of all prices across the board. If you don't want taxes to be raised on us like the frog in the frying pan, you must take away Congress' ability to raise taxes altogether, which is what I am proposing.
In order to be fair, the process of taxation must be simplistic and transparent in nature. The only way to have a transparent taxation is through direct taxation and an abolition of indirect taxes. No sales tax, no excise tax, and the use of tariffs only on imports to discourage
manufactured products from coming into the country, however it is essentially important for there to be no taxation of imported raw materials.
Under such a system, prices on goods and services will drop drastically over night, strengthening the purchasing power of our hard earned wages. Taxation would be fair, it would be at a much lower rate than we currently pay, and the income of the government would be entirely dependent on the prosperity of the economy, and you would then see enactment of legislation which encourages employment and competition as opposed to the stifling of each respectively. Our tax code would go from being several volumes to a simple amendment.
Now, with this in mind the question is, why is there not one media personality, and this includes Glenn Beck and Mark Levin and his proposed Liberty Amendment to reform taxation, ignore the wisdom of our founding fathers original tax plan?
I've already explained this; there is little competition in the media world thanks to government, and neither the media corporations nor the government want a well informed public.
Why do they avoid getting to the root cause of our tax miseries which could be ended by adding the following 32 words to our Constitution?
The Sixteenth Amendment is hereby repealed and Congress is henceforth forbidden to lay ``any`` tax or burden calculated from profits, gains, interest, salaries, wages, tips, inheritances or any other lawfully realized money
These words, if added to our Constitution, would return us to a consumption based taxing system, our founding father’s
ORIGINAL TAX PLAN as they intended it to operate! And, they would remove the destructive power Congress now exercises which has socialized America‘s once free enterprise system. The words would also help to end Congress’ current love affair with class warfare, which it now uses to divide the people while plundering the wealth which America’s businesses and labor have produced.
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.
The same would be true of an amendment which abolishes indirect taxation of articles of consumption, and locks a 10% rate of tax on income into the constitution. It would be straight forward and cheap, and taxes could only be raised by a vote to amend the constitution or constitutional convention. In either situation it would be easy to see that they are trying to raise taxes, and with such a straight forward system you run a lesser risk of "cunning con artists" tricking the people into paying a heavier burden.
The only problem with your suggestion is the complicated nature of consumption based taxes that open the door for unfair practice. The only problem with either suggestion is government's addiction to spending other people's money.
