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And here is another Freedom Caucus member, Representative Barry Moore (R), who has decided to support the fraudulent and deceptive FairTax (H.R. 25) which, if adopted, would create a new 23% tax on articles of consumption, and do so without withdrawing Congress’ power to lay and collect taxes calculated from profits, gains, salaries and other “incomes”.
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Now, keep in mind nowhere in the Bill does it withdraw Congress authority to lay and collect taxes calculated from profits, gains, salaries, wages, and other lawfully realized incomes. And how could it when withdrawing such power from Congress requires a constitutional amendment!
But the FairTax Act does create a new federal agency, the “Excise Tax Bureau”, and it will be there to collect, in addition to a new 23% tax on articles of consumption, countless new “excise” taxes Congress dreams up calculated form incomes such as the Corporate Excise Tax of 1909, [See Flint v. Stone Tracy Co., 220 U.S. 107 (1911) in which the Supreme Court confirmed Congress had power, prior to the adoption of the 16th Amendment, to lay and collect a tax calculated from profits and gains (income) without having to apportion the tax.
The bottom line is, we are learning how stupid and uniformed some of the Freedom Caucus members are, or that they are intentionally promoting a rope-a-dope piece of legislation knowing full well it is cleverly designed to expand and enlarge the iron fist of our corrupted and thieving federal government’s taxing arm.
If Representative Barry Moore is sincere in his stated objectives, especially closing down the IRS and ending all federal taxes calculated from profits, gains, wages, tips, and other lawfully realized “incomes”, he would lend his support to the Fair Share Balanced Budget Amendment which would actually accomplish what the FairTax advertises but doesn’t.
The Fair Share Balanced Budget Amendment begins with the following words:
“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 The Sixteenth Amendment is hereby repealed and Congress is henceforth forbidden to lay any tax or burden calculated from sales, profits, gains, interest, salaries, wages, tips, inheritances or any other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
“We often give enemies the means of our own destruction.” – Aesop.
