How a person could live all his
life and not get political I don’t know. But that’s what I’ve done, until experiencing
the second term of our democrat-led administration, and even then it took the
fanatical reach on gun-control by the liberals-from-hell to finally wake me up.
Big government is going too far on way too many issues, so, as I write these
blog posts it will be a learning experience for me.
A friend and shipmate recently
introduced me to a book called the Fair Tax Book. I haven’t found the book yet,
but I’ve heard of the “fair tax” concept. Of late it’s been appearing with
great frequency on Facebook and other internet sites.
What is the ‘Fair Tax?’ Basically,
income tax (and the IRS) would be eliminated—talk about a tax savings! How many
employees does the IRS have? I don’t know, but I’m sure in the thousands, and
their salaries are all in the thousands of dollars, plus the American citizen
is…well, I hate to say afraid of the IRS, but look at the recent alleged
acts (there’s that word ‘alleged.’) There’s nothing ‘alleged’
about it. The IRS has singled out conservative organizations to perform colonoscopies—sorry,
I meant to say audits. I have no money to speak of, yet I fear an audit just
because I’m writing a blog post that is anti-IRS.
To get back to what is the ‘Fair
Tax,’ it’s also called a consumption tax: We would pay a federal sales tax
on everything we buy. In other words, rather than the government removing money
we’ve earned from our pay checks via the 1040 form, we would pay sales tax
instead, meaning we will keep the money we earn and when we can afford the
sales tax on something we want to buy, we can go buy it, which seems to me is
pretty much how we do it now, only we’d have to save a little longer.
Back before the primaries in 2012 I
wrote a series of blog posts promoting North Dakota ’s
Measure 2, that is, the elimination of property taxes. Very simply put,
property taxes are a form of rent one must pay to live in your own home.
Property tax is a scam, as it supports an office full of employees in every
county, and hugely supports bloated school districts that feel they must keep
up with the Jones’s, so to speak. Property taxes support other programs too,
but salaries and schools are two of the costliest items. I would think the states
could come up with sales tax ideas to replace property taxes, too. That way
everybody pays. The rich people wouldn’t be able to pay attorneys and
accountants to find all the loopholes, because loopholes would also go the way
of the dodo bird and passenger pigeon.
Until 1913 we didn’t have a
permanent income tax. During the War of 1812 it was proposed but never
implemented. The Congress did introduce an income tax to fund the Civil War, a
flat tax of 3% on incomes above $800, equivalent to $20,441 today. Here,
verbatim from Wikipedia:
On July 12, 1909 , the resolution proposing the sixteenth
Amendment was passed by the Sixty-first Congress and was submitted to the state
legislatures. Support for the income tax was strongest in the western and
southern states and opposition was strongest in the northeastern states.
Opposition strongest in the northeastern states? But that’s
where the money was. Go figure.
Anyway, we can thank the Sixteenth Amendment to the
Constitution for our federal income tax, and some people are calling for a
repeal of the Sixteenth. Does/Would every state have to support a repeal? I
don’t know.
Here again, verbatim from Wikipedia:
Before an amendment can take effect, it must be proposed to
the states by a two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress or by a convention
(known as an article V convention) called by two-thirds of the states, and
ratified by three-fourths of the states or by three-fourths of conventions
thereof, the method of ratification being determined by Congress at the time of
proposal.
I have heard there is a bill
pending for ‘Fair Tax’—right now!—before Congress.
Understood: The ‘Fair Tax’
would cause a lot of changes to be made.
Number One, the elimination of the
IRS and the income tax code.
I’ve wondered just how big is that
IRS book of rules?
Hang onto your hats, folks! In 1913
it was 400 pages long, which was long enough. Even 400 pages seems like a lot,
but in 2003 it was 54,846 pages long—GOD HELP US!!!!
That amount of pages is not only
mind-boggling but immoral, obnoxious, ETC.!
There are 1.2 million paid tax
preparers in the U.S. ,
legions of accountants, lawyers, and computer experts—some of the best minds in
the country and, basically, they are contributing nothing to our standard of
living. Those numbers are from the CATO Institute (a Libertarian think tank
headquartered in Washington DC
And here ends my first taxes blog
post. I encourage everybody to get informed about taxes.
Thanks for reading
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