My friend,
Evolution, not revolution. You are not going to win on a platform that says — “I will get rid of the IRS”. At least not now.
An alternative way of filing your taxes — THE FLAT WAY in parallel with the TRADITIONAL WAY would be the better way to go.
You could say — I propose the PRO-CHOICE TAXFILING METHOD ( We conservatives are pro-choice on almost everything except when it comes to killing babies ).
A tax payer will be given one of two choices:
* File the Traditional Way ( with all its accounting headaches )
* File the FLAT WAY ( no deductions for doing this and that ). Just a flat, single page form and the guarantee that if you do so, the IRS will NOT audit you.
Let that law be in existence for 10 years and we’ll see which one becomes more popular. I am willing to bet that the traditional method will (to use Newt Gingrich’s words) whither in the vine.
This has the added advantage of being a PRACTICAL REFERENDUM on what people really want.
EVOLUTION, NOT REVOLUTION.
In 1937, U.S. Senator Josiah Bailey of North Carolina was concerned that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his New Deal programs were leading America and North Carolina down the road to collectivism. Although he did not oppose every attempt at government intervention, Senator Bailey believed that limitations should be placed on government growth...
The planning and writing of the manifesto were done without the knowledge of FDR. Eventually the secretive work of the bi-partisan alliance was leaked, and fearing political repercussions, many Senators denied any involvement with the creation of the Conservative Manifesto. Bailey, however, accepted responsibility.
According to Moore, the Conservative Manifesto’s ten points were as follows:
1. Immediate revision of taxes on capital gains and undistributed profits in order to free investment funds.
2. Reduced expenditures to achieve a balanced budget, and thus, to still fears deterring business expansion.
3. An end to coercion and violence in relations between capital and labor.
4. Opposition to “unnecessary” government competition with private enterprise.
5. Recognition that private investment and enterprise require a reasonable profit.
6. Safeguarding the collateral upon which credit rests.
7. Reduction of taxes, or if this proved impossible at the moment, firm assurance of no further increases.
8. Maintenance of state rights, home rule, and local self-government, except where proved definitely inadequate.
9. Economical and non-political relief to unemployed with maximum local responsibility. 10. Reliance upon the American form of government and the American system of enterprise.
“Evolution, not revolution. You are not going to win on a platform that says — “I will get rid of the IRS”. At least not now.
An alternative way of filing your taxes — THE FLAT WAY in parallel with the TRADITIONAL WAY would be the better way to go.”
We’ve been trying it your way since 1913, and it’s gotten us where??????