This is a fever dream. Federal Taxes will always be collected.
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And we wouldn’t be an economic and military superpower, either.
So you decide the tradeoff…
Oh, please…
The Fair Share Balanced Buget Amendment does not forbid Congress to lay and collect taxes. Its next Section continues:
“SECTION 2. Congress ought not raise money by borrowing, but when the money arising from imposts duties and excise taxes are insufficient to meet the public exigencies, and Congress has raised money by borrowing during the course of a fiscal year, Congress shall then lay a direct tax at the beginning of the next fiscal year for an amount sufficient to extinguish the preceding fiscal year’s deficit, and apply the revenue so raised to extinguishing said deficit.”
NOTE: Congress is to raise its primary revenue from imposts and duties, [taxes at our water’s edge], and may also lay miscellaneous internal excise taxes on specifically chosen articles of consumption. But if Congress borrows and spends more than is brought in from imposts, duties and miscellaneous excise taxes during the course of a fiscal year, then, and only then, is the direct apportioned tax to be laid in order to balance the budget on an annual basis.
“SECTION 3. When Congress is required to lay a direct tax in accordance with Section 1 of this Article, the Secretary of the United States Treasury shall, in a timely manner, calculate each State’s apportioned share of the total sum being raised by dividing its total population size by the total population of the united states and multiplying that figure by the total being raised by Congress, and then provide the various State Congressional Delegations with a Bill notifying their State’s Executive and Legislature of its share of the total tax being collected and a final date by which said tax shall be paid into the United States Treasury.”
In reference to the above Section see: FIRST DIRECT TAX LAID BY CONGRESS, 1798
NOTE: our founder’s fair share formula to extinguish an annual deficit would be:
States’ population
---------------------------- X SUM TO BE RAISED = STATE’S FAIR SHARE
Total U.S. Population
The above formula, as intended by our founding fathers, is to ensure that each state’s share towards extinguishing an annual deficit is proportionately equal to its representation in Congress, i.e., representation with a proportional financial obligation! And if the tax is laid directly upon the people by Congress, then everybody taxpayer across the United States pays the exact same amount! [/I]
Note also that each State’s number or Representatives, under our Constitution is determined by the rule of apportionment:
State`s Pop.
------------------- X House size (435) = State`s No. of Representatives
U.S. Pop.
“SECTION 4. Each State shall be free to assume and pay its quota of the direct tax into the United States Treasury by a final date set by Congress, but if any State shall refuse or neglect to pay its quota, then Congress shall send forth its officers to assess and levy such State’s proportion against the real property within the State with interest thereon at the rate of ((?)) per cent per annum, and against the individual owners of the taxable property. Provision shall be made for a 15% discount for those States paying their share by ((?))of the fiscal year in which the tax is laid, and a 10% discount for States paying by the final date set by Congress, such discount being to defray the States’ cost of collection.”
NOTE: This section respects the Tenth Amendment and allows each state to raise its share in its own chosen way in a time period set by Congress, but also allows the federal government to enter a state and collect the tax if a state is delinquent in meeting its obligation.
"SECTION 5. This Amendment to the Constitution, when ratified by the required number of States, shall take effect no later than (?) years after the required number of States have ratified it.
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Lol. She verified a conservative conspiracy theory. Comey and McCabe are conservatives.
If that is a conspiracy then I guess the conservatives who said “IRS will be weaponized against conservatives” are wrong.
“We” aren’t.
No they aren’t.
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It’s O.K. to visit Fantasy Land but you really shouldn’t live there.
He’s one of those who believes the silly conspiracy theory that the 16th Amendment was never ratified.
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Sure we are.
You benefit from that…it even lets you believe in your Sovereign Citizen Myth in relative comfort.
I distinctly remember Joe Biden telling us that Amendments are not absolute.
Which way do you want it?
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You do love your non sequiturs.
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Liberals make it so easy.
No she pushed a conspiracy theory. But look at you run to the defense of your pal. Can’t you all defend yourselves?
Sad thing is, there is always going to be something you messed up on even if you have a CPA doing your taxes. For folks who are trying to do the right thing and pay what you owe, getting audited is a nightmare.
Our company was audited by the Dept. of Revenue in the early 2000’s. Wrong sales tax for a county and a transposed number on sales tax paid for a tire cost us almost 3K (they multiply the errors to all receivables/payables in the months audited). Never mind if you overpay tax they don’t do the same. The disruption, pulling documents and stress was worse than the fine. Honestly, you just want to ask how much do you want so you can just go away and let me get on with my business and my life…
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A 1% chance is not a “verified conspiracy” by any means.
A debt-based, mismanaged economy dependent on service industry. A country of consumers and “influencers”.
Great.
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