Posted on 09/18/2001 7:42:33 PM PDT by CHIEF negotiator
How To Raise $13.7 BILLION PER YEAR For The War Effort
PHASE I - Educate & Motivate Everyone You Know . . . If we do nothing, our children and grandchildren can expect to pay 84% of their income in taxes. It's called "Tax-Creep", that will continue to grow unless we stop it now! This "beast that must be fed" is the Internal Revenue Code. It's like a drug to the politicans that the Gucci Gulch crowd sells them, and almost every one of them are hooked.
They will continue to dance to "Tiptoe Through The Tax code Tinkering Tango" unless voters wise-up. The music sounds nice, but they're dancing with two left feet. Did you know that there have been over 6,500 changes to the IRC just since 1986? Is it less confusing, abusive, or intrusive?
Remember the $792 Billion tax cut package, President Clinton vetoed? If you happened to be a "tackle box" manufacturer in Speaker Hastert's district . . . you get a tax cut. I wonder how much re-election money he was paid to have that jewel added?
Ah... the Infernal, Eternal, Incomprehensible, "Internal Revenue Code"--It has grown from an almost "FLAT INCOME TAX" of 14 pages in 1914, that only the rich had to deal with, to over 2,000 pages of law, 6,000 pages of regulations, and hundreds of thousands of pages of rulings and interpretations that we ALL have to deal with. It's 7 times longer than the Bible and fills a whole bookshelf!
Top-Earning Five Percent of Taxpayers Pay More than Half of Federal Individual Income Taxes
In 1998 the top 50% of income earners, paid 95.8% of the federal individual income taxes while the bottom 50% paid only 4.2%.
This "Robin Hood" method of income taxation severly restrains much needed economic growth. When you rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have Paul's vote. If you hoodwink enough Pauls, (51% of voters) you will continue to see increased taxes because they are the only ones that benefit from higher taxes and more spending on socialistic “gimme” programs. They are the ones that will continue to vote for the BIG Spenders.
Tax preparers and income tax experts who routinely testify before Congress admit that even they do not fully understand all the provisions and ramifications of the IRC. Several years ago, Money Magazine gave 48 accountants nationwide a financial profile of the magazine's typical reader and then asked them to prepare a hypothetical tax return. Not only did each of them come up with a different answer, but the computed tax liability for this one family ranged from $16,219 to $46,564.
Consider this: In addition to being confusing, the present income tax code also results in an unbelievable amount of wasted time. Americans spend more than 5.1 billion hours merely filling out income tax forms. None of this time is for productive enterprises that actually add to the social, economic, or moral well-being of our society. By some estimates, the cost of compliance exceeds $300 billion a year - that's in addition to the $600 billion a year Americans also pay in taxes!
The "Price of Civilized Society" Surges to $10,298 Per Person in the U.S.
"Americans will spend more money per capita in 1999 on taxes ($10,298) than on food ($2,693), clothing ($1,404), and shelter ($5,833) combined," according to Patrick Fleenor, senior economist at the Tax Foundation and author of the report titled "The Price of Civilized Society." These are the taxes that we are aware of. That amount doesn’t account for the $657.5 billion in additional "hidden" taxes, or $2,462 in hidden taxes per person. These hidden taxes violate a basic principle of taxation -- that taxes should be visible to the people who pay them. If people don't accurately perceive how much government policies cost them, then how can they make informed decisions in our democratic process?
Some taxes are inadvertently hidden, but others are consciously designed that way to disguise the TRUE cost of government. It's easy to see why: the total U.S. tax burden is equal to 42 percent of annual personal consumption spending. If Americans recognized this high level of taxation, there might well be a second American Revolution!
The Internal Revenue Service employs more investigative agents than the FBI and the CIA combined, and with 115,000 employees, employs more people than all but the 36 largest corporations in the United States.
$13,700,000,000 = The amount of tax money spent by the IRS and other government agencies to enforce and oversee the tax code. How far would an additional $13.7 BILLION per year go, to assist in the war effort?
Massive amounts of our national wealth are consumed merely by measuring, tracking, sheltering, documenting, and filing our annual income.
Our Founding Fathers must be turning over in their graves because of the taxation mess we've allowed. Yes we've allowed! We were given a Constitution that we no longer cherish. "Taxation without representation", was the cry. Why isn't that the cry today? Have our elected representatives been trying to "dumb down" the American tax payer? "I don't pay taxes, I got a refund!" Lord help me...
Here's the real bottom line: the income tax code is a mess; the IRS is out of control; and it's time to scrap them both and start with a clean sheet of paper.
According to Article 1 Section 8,(paraphrased) . . . "All excise taxes . . . must be uniform" . . . which the FairTax is.
Taxman, pigdog, and I organized the first FairTax CyberWar right here on Free Republic a few years ago, and was so successful that Americans for Fair Taxation has picked up the idea, and ran with it. Will you spare five minutes a day so our children will have a Nation our Founding Fathers envisioned? [One minute a day, if you can copy and paste].
Thank you,
:-? Peace(pipe)
CHIEF negotiator
Pass it on to all you know. Just Imagine what would happen if just 10% of the 70,000 FReepers and 77,000 Members of Americans for Fair Taxation took a minute out of their day to VOICE THEIR OPINION?
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I wish you nothing but luck. And since I don't believe in "luck" all I can say is
good luck.
The issue is deader than dead -- as good as it sounds.
No worry, mate - I'll fight the fight for you.
The establishment has got bigger fish to fry. Fight not for me my friend -- defend yourself. Taxes are only one tactic of our enemy. It is a long road back to that "front." WWII started the payroll deduction, this is WWIII - they won't reverse it now.
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Forget it. Sorry I responded. Keep up the good work and
The reason for this post is a call for ACTION to take place for those that understand.
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