Samm,
Just as government is a necessary evil [Thomas Paine], so too are taxes. But why do the good people of the United States, after witnessing how destructive to the general welfare of the United States the taxing of “incomes” has become, that the subject of real tax reform should not be on their minds?
Aside from the “income tax” being used to directly tax and target specific identifiable groups of taxpayers to shoulder an disproportionate and unequal share of the “income tax”, and how it is used by a current Administration to attack and destroy specific groups, individuals and businesses based on their politics, and is even used to enforce destructive public policy never specifically agreed to by the people’s elected members of Congress, besides all this, did it ever cross your mind how an evil Empire has grown, matured and now attacks, destroys and is eliminating the very principles and standards under which our country grew to be the greatest and most powerful country on earth?
Tell me Samm, how many tax exempt groups can you name which have grown from tax-deductible contributions and do ill to our country, such as Black Lives Matter, ACORN, ACLU, Southern Poverty Law Center, NPR, American Federation of Teachers, Tides Foundation, ProPublica, Rock the Vote . . .etc.?
Representative Williams was absolutely correct when he noted, as soon as Rome “. . . changed their system to direct taxation, it operated to their ruin; their children were sold as slaves, and the Empire fell from its splendor.” SOURCE
Tell me Samm, should we not work to get this evil monkey off our backs and return to a system of taxation based upon principles which do not change with the passage of time?
JWK
“…a national revenue must be obtained; but the system must be such a one, that, while it secures the object of revenue it shall not be oppressive to our constituents.”___ Madison, during the creation of our Nation’s first revenue raising Act
