Posted on 04/15/2019 11:25:28 AM PDT by Rummyfan
You can say that about the current system too.
Its the middle classes that pay, the rich (minimal) and the bottom do not. Its that way by design!
A consumption tax would get the “off-the books” market as well as put everyone’s skin to a greater or lessor degree into the game. Right now the too many people who vote are NOT effected by the outcomes of their vote because of that lack of skin! They can afford fanciful notions because it doesn’t affect them.
Taxing income is bad, immoral. Having a bloated, corrupt government is bad, immoral. Collecting obscene amounts of personal information is wrong, immoral. A retail sales tax to fund a small, limited government is good, moral.
“$25 annual fee”
I think it is about $800 annual fee for a corporation of any size to do business in my state of Florida.
I believe many other states also charge steeply to operate an incorporated business.
They all vary. Some states are $15 or $25. Some state annual reports operate like a Franchise Tax. WI, CT, IL, and VA are the worst. Tax can go into the thousands. But as I say, there they are taxing Capital apportionment. I’m talking about a fixed fee. For example:
Sales of
$0 - $1M $25
$1M - $5M $50
$5M - $10M $75
Over $10M $200
Something like that. Very simple, very easy. Tied to Line 1a of Form 1120.
“ALL non-Constitutional spending”
There is no such thing as “non-Constitutional spending”.
Congress has an unlimited power to spend:
“The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States”
Article IV, Section. 3.
“The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;”
Article I, Section. 8.
Congress has somewhat restricted taxing power, but it has unrestricted borrowing and asset sale power.
Our Constitution has flaws.
“Forcing merchants as a condition to their business license to collect taxes for the Federal government is in my mind slavery and making them involuntary accomplices to theft.”
Congress has the power to levy taxation and the “necessary and proper” power needed to collect that taxation.
The Founding Fathers viewed direct taxation of individuals as too difficult. Many people in 1787 didn’t have a dollar to their name.
Even modern governments like to run scams, such as forcing people to buy health insurance and then taxing the doctors dearly. Why Mr. Griffin, your taxes are low! I’m not fooled. Another scam is lowering interest rates and forcing people to entrust Wall Street fatcats with their life savings.
Since I don’t get paid off of it, I will say that it would be beneficial because freedom and privacy are far more important to me than they are to anyone who would defend income tax for any reason.
Tax programs for various businesses allow the items to be charged for as required.
No clerk at the cash register has to make a decision as to how it is to be taxed.
“The Revenue Act of 1916 began the practice of adjusting tax rates and income scales. The original income tax was 1% for the bottom bracket, which was comprised of income up to $20,000, and 7% for the top bracket which was comprised of income over $500,000.”
We should just reset to the 1916 tax rate.
Then eliminate the 17th amendment.
Amen!!!
Then eliminate the source of all our problems: the 19th.
Thanks.
What makes taxation not theft?
It is Legal Plunder with lots of rules.
I’ve got no problem w/ the 16A per se....It’s the illegality of the ENFORCEMENT that’s the problem: violations of 4th/5th to support a violation via the 13th (aka ‘welfare’, in all its forms, shapes+).
Still, that doesn’t handle the underground economies, the retired\’poor’
Follow the Const. (A1S8) FIRST, then we’ll see what she needs to keep going.
The slave has become the master—always the case with a government that refuses to spend within its means.
Yep - I never used Turbo Tax (been using Tax Act for a number of years) and this year have received no fewer than 30 missives from Turbo Tax to sign in and get the best...blah blah blah...made me decide I’ll never use their product.
““ALL non-Constitutional spending”
There is no such thing as “non-Constitutional spending”.”
If the power is not in the Constitution, then it would be un-constitutional.
Congress needs to be reigned in and put back into its box.
Thanks for the ping, sweetie!
Delayed response because I was finishing up my @%&**!!&@# TAXES!
Note that April 15th will be another nice Spring Day when FAIRtax is law of the land!
FAIRtax is, of course, the BIG SOLUTION: Check out http://www.bigsolution.org
If we have to have taxes I want a checklist of things I want it used for right on the tax form would get to specify what
percent as well.
This CPA is all in for the Fair Tax.
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