Community | September 15, 2009 | 6 comments

Unnecessary and Immoral

source: http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=182

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"In a Time of Universal Deceit, Telling the Truth is a Revolutionary Act."

- George Orwell, author of 1984

Summary: The federal income tax is an unnecessary and immoral tax. I am in favor of abolishing the federal income tax and eventually the entire IRS. YOUR income from YOUR labor belongs to you and no one else, especially the government, has the right to steal it from you. Most Americans are unaware that while the government collects $1,200 billion in federal income taxes and collects roughly $3,000 billion in total taxes, the fact is that "only" $67 billion is necessary to run the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, which includes the FBI and federal court system. (1) (2) (3) When one compares this amount to the Banker Bailout of October 2008 for $800 billion and the Obama Stimulus Plan for $1,100 billion with interest, one wonders why not bailout the taxpayer in a plunging economy instead?

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6 comments // Unnecessary and Immoral

  • Dagum
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      Dagum  

    • BUt I love the income tax....I love the fact that Federal goverment takes my money becuase they know how to spend better to stimulate the economy by sending to there buddies and congressional districts that don't exist.

    • 2 years ago
  • stopnoise
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      stopnoise  

    • I do follow your idea and it has been proposed here before. I think government takes a lot more from people earning less than 150 a Year. No wonder they can afford to waste our money on war. I also looked into the financial math and it seems not to add up. What about the infrastructure, transportation, public safety and social services?

    • 2 years ago
  • GodsnConservatives
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      GodsnConservatives  

    • Hi remanns, I will agree that man's natural state is anarchy. Our founding fathers attempted to reconcile this belief with the understanding that some form of government was necessary.

      Ben Franklin said in his his speech to the constitutional convention, prior to signing the first draft of the constitution:
      "I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it…"

      In this respect, Ben Franklin, predicted what our government would look like in the future. That future is now.

      So, in conclusion, we are all anarchists. And all governments are despotic (or will naturally lead to it).

      The human struggle, as I see it, is to reconcile these two truths. Is it even possible?

      That is the underlying debate that will continue for as long as man walks this earth.

    • 2 years ago
  • remanns
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      remanns  

    • Yea,.............got it.-------- (this is not Ayn Rand,....this is one step further.) ARE YOU AN ANARCHIST???
      -GodsnConservatives- (I ask this without malice) If you are,..........well,.......I respect that;...........an "absolutist" position,..........like pacifism, or atheism,or social Darwinism, or empiricism, it it may be "absolutely" true,..........................[but I don't accept the premise]

    • 2 years ago
  • locutus
  • GodsnConservatives
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      GodsnConservatives  
    • locutus:

      Hi locutus, I am sure that readers of current would appreciate your insight. If this is truly "[p]olitically and intellectually juvenile," please provide a rational argument to the support that claim.

      Personally, I believe the argument is fairly sound. Surely, some form of taxes are necessary, but not to the degree which they are currently set.

      Cheers!

    • 2 years ago
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