RE: We seriously need a flat tax.
I would prefer a national sales tax. Look, I love our constitution and believe it is one of the greatest gifts our framers gave to posterity.
But it became a mess when Woodrow Wilson pushed the 16th amendment on the American people ( and our ancestors at that time foolishly ACCEPTED IT ).
Ever since then, the INCOME TAX has now become a basis for all sorts of social engineering. It has also given the IRS unprecedented police powers to tell you what kind of life you can live, up to and including going overseas to track down whatever income you have earned ( just ask the many LEGAL immigrants who have had assets overseas before they became US citizens ).
The very fact that we have the above article in this thread just shows how UNFREE a people we have become as a result of the 16th amendment. We now have to literally ask the Federal government whether we can do this or that in order to prevent them from taking more of our money.
But it became a mess when Woodrow Wilson pushed the 16th amendment on the American people ( and our ancestors at that time foolishly ACCEPTED IT ).
Ever since then, the INCOME TAX has now become a basis for all sorts of social engineering. It has also given the IRS unprecedented police powers to tell you what kind of life you can live, up to and including going overseas to track down whatever income you have earned ( just ask the many LEGAL immigrants who have had assets overseas before they became US citizens ).
The very fact that we have the above article in this thread just shows how UNFREE a people we have become as a result of the 16th amendment. We now have to literally ask the Federal government whether we can do this or that in order to prevent them from taking more of our money.
Spot on.