Representative Buddy Carter is still peddling and misrepresenting what the “FairTax” would accomplish. And Newsmax now seems to be embracing this rope-a-dope and devious expansion of our federal government’s taxing arm by repeatedly giving uncontested coverage to those promoting it. Latest example being: Rep. Carter to Newsmax: New ‘Fair Tax’ Law Would Eliminate IRS
Saturday, 14 January 2023
“Rather than paying a tax on income or property, Americans should be paying a consumption tax, or a “fair tax” on the things they buy, according to Rep. Buddy Carter, who this week introduced legislation that he told Newsmax will “do away” with the IRS.”
What our dear Buddy Carter doesn’t reveal about the fraudulently characterized “FairTax” is, while it would close down the IRS if adopted, it would also create two new tax collecting agencies in its place, an “Excise Tax Bureau” and the “Sales Tax Bureau", and that is in addition to keeping the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms alive which will also be collecting federal taxes.
Carter also suggests that under his “FairTax” people will no longer be subject to a property tax, income tax, or a payroll tax. What he doesn’t say is why an “Excise Tax Bureau” is created under H.R. 25, which obviously will be collecting all the new “excise” taxes Congress dreams up in addition to the new 23% FairTax.
To get an idea of the trickery behind the FairTax and the reason why it creates a new tax collecting agency called the “Excise Tax Bureau”, we need to recall the Corporate Excise tax of 1909, mentioned above, and how Congress laid a tax calculated from profits and gains (income) which was upheld by the Supreme Court as being constitutional, even before the 16th Amendment was adopted.
So, while Buddy Carter’s crap about not paying an “income tax” is technically true under the alleged FairTax, Congress still gets to lay and collect countless “excise” taxes calculated from profits, gains and other incomes, and that is in addition to the 23% FairTax on consumption which enlarges the iron grip of our federal government around the necks of the American people.
It should also be noted that Carter’s nonsense about not paying a “property tax” with reference to H.R. 25 is disingenuous at best. As it turns out, under the FairTax, ordinary working people, like Mary and Joe who live down the street, will feel the heavy hand of the tax collector when selling the property each has in their own labor, and in addition, they will be required to register with government and file FairTax returns twelve frickin times a year! See The FairTax might as well be called the Nanny Tax
If Rep. Buddy Carter is really sincere about ending federal taxes calculated from profits, gains, wages, and other lawfully earned incomes, and raising revenue by taxing consumption, all he need do is to start promoting the FAIR SHARE BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT which begins as follows:
“SECTION 1. The Sixteenth Amendment is hereby repealed and Congress is henceforth forbidden to lay any tax or burden calculated from sales, profits, gains, interest, salaries, wages, tips, inheritances or any other lawfully realized money.
NOTE: these words would return us to our founding father’s original tax plan as they intended it to operate! They would also end the experiment with allowing Congress to lay and collect taxes calculated from lawfully earned “incomes” which now oppresses America‘s economic engine and robs the bread which working people have earned when selling the property each has in their own labor, not to mention they would end federal taxation being used as a political weapon to harass and attack political opponents!
JWK
“The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of the poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his own hands; and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper, without injury to his neighbor, is a plain violation of this most sacred property.” ___ Butchers’ Union Co. v. Crescent City Co., 111 U.S. 746 (1884)