Posted on 08/03/2014 11:56:20 AM PDT by PoloSec
A Washington Examiner article asks “Can the IRS be fixed, or should it just be abolished?” The answer is clear to anybody who has followed the IRS scandal or filed a federal tax return.
Washington’s individual income tax and its enforcement agency, the IRS, cannot be fixed, repaired, reformed or rehabilitated. They are a cancer eating away at this nation, her taxpayers and our economic engine.
Congress created the income tax in 1913, and for 100 years the IRS has operated exactly as intended, as an agent of control with total impunity, even down to the political targeting of individuals and groups.
After all, Congress and Washington’s finest lobbyists — many of whom previously served as members of Congress or congressional support staff — made it possible for IRS bureaucrats to write all 73,954 pages of the tax code.
In combination with IRS enforcement, the income tax is the perfect mechanism for Congress to exact control, fund hidden political agendas, stuff campaign coffers and gain entree into an elite millionaires club.
Wall Street Journal columnist and former Reagan presidential speechwriter Peggy Noonan wrote in January:
“Someday history will write of our era, and the biggest scandal will be the thing we accepted in our leaders; chronic and endemic selfishness. History will be hard on us for that.”
That said, the American people clearly are fed up. They are tired, demoralized and collapsing from a tax code and enforcement agency that does Congress’ bidding while plundering earnings and destroying individual lives and businesses.
Neither the income tax nor its oppressive bureaucratic collector can be fixed. It cannot be reformed. It must be thrown into history’s dust heap of failed legislative experiments and replaced with the Fair Tax Act of 2013, or HR 25/S 122.
The Fair Tax is a simple, fair and transparent national consumption tax that treats everyone the same — no loopholes, exemptions or exclusions — not even for Congress.
As such, this legislation represents the largest transfer of power back to the people since the writing of the Constitution.
And the Fair Tax is the only tax replacement plan with 85 cosponsors committed to disbanding, defunding and forever eliminating the IRS.
Benjamin Franklin once said, “the ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy.”
It’s time to end the most prejudicial, oppressive, erroneous and mistaken policy ever forced upon the American people. It’s time for the Fair Tax. Steven L. Hayes is chairman and president of Americans For Fair Taxation.
i like the national sales tax because it does completely eliminate all government knowledge of your personal life. That’s why it will never happen.
actually the original tax was on income. which by definition was derived from a source. investment income not wages. The crooked supreme court changed the definition of income to be “appurtenance to wealth” i think it was IRS v glenshaw glass
FLAT TAX!!!! NOT FAIR TAX!!!! FLAT TAX!!! Where EVERYONE pays the SAME PERCENTAGE!!!!! Just like Sales Tax.....Julio and Bill Gates pays the same tax when they buy anything!!
I’m for the real flat tax, where everyone pays the same tax.
18% with a PERSONAL deduction and after that EVERYONE PAYS THE SAME 18%!!!!!! 50% of the people in the US have NO SKIN IN THE GAME and they Game the system by getting FREE MONEY from TAXPAYERS!! THIS must be STOPPED!!!
I don’t agree. We should not be penalized for our success. It’s a government scam.
Should you pay MORE to buy something at Wahlgreen’s than a BUM does???? NO....EVERYONE that LIVES in this country needs to pay the SAME RATE!!!!! What don’t you agree with??
Are you saying that you and Bill Gates should pay the SAME AMOUNT????? That’s Ridiculous!!! You SHOULD pay the same PWERCENTAGE!!
You, of course........ are absolutely correct!
Why?
Why should Bill Gates be penalized for buying the same thing I do?
It is not, in my mind, an if-then proposition.
I’m not sold on the fair tax, but I agree with gutting the tax code and removing the ogre that the IRS has become.
I get a little frustrated that the fair tax proponents believe it’s the only way. Disagreeing with the fair tax as the best solution on other threads has resulted in some members, myself included, being derided as idiots, liberals, and miscreants.
It’s the starting point of a conversation that needs to be had, but there is a my way or the highway sentiment among some of the supporters that concerns me. Let’s agree that something should be done, and soon. But please let’s not allow the blinders off advocacy to keep us from endeavoring to find the best solution.
Not directed at anyone in particular... and definitely not jumping on you, polo. More of a generic rant, so I tapped post 1 for the reply. Hoping to keep the debate about ideas and not people.
Flat tax would be better.
wow you know....
No, I don’t agree.
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