Loading ...Damn you, legislators. Damn you, government executives. Damn you, judges and lawyers of America. Damn you and your lobbyist and bureaucratic masters who concocted this evil system of redistributive taxation we have. I resent being controlled in this way. You perverse, conceited ignoramuses. And damn you ignorant voters who keep voting these thugs into power.
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Who loves his neighbor?
“I do!” replies the public educator, “I have spent my life teaching the child of my neighbor the wisdom of the ages!”
I would ask the educator: did you also love the man who never had children, from whom your wages were forcefully taken in the form of a tax on his personal life, liberty, and property?
“But, it was a noble cause, to teach the children! I was merely providing for the general welfare of the child!”
Over the past several months I’ve been looking at the proposed “Fair Tax” that’s being promoted around the country. It has some intriguing aspects, and I was immediately interested in how it could better serve individual Americans. In a recent chat conversation I had with my brother, I explained to him what it is. A transcript of our chat is as follows:
Free Troll: Did I tell you about http://www.fairtax.org?
Troll’s Brother: I think you did.
Free Troll: I think it’s gaining steam, slowly.
Troll’s Brother: so what is it in thirty seconds?
Free Troll: A national sales tax at 23%, repeal of the 16th amendment so Congress couldn’t pull a fast one and impose the national sales tax PLUS retain income taxes, elimination of the IRS and tax filing, and it takes care of the poor by effectively exempting them from taxes up to the poverty level.
So, if you don’t want to pay taxes, just don’t but new stuff. Tax only would apply to services and new product purchases.
Can you imagine how much wealth could be built if you didn’t have payroll taxes and April 15th?
Troll’s Brother: What would all the cpa’s do?
Free Troll: Do what CPAs are supposed to. Help companies manage money, not pay taxes.
Troll’s Brother: ahh. Do you ever have the opinion that things have to get bad before they can get better?
Free Troll: That’s because people generally are so caught up in trying to do things for themselves in the moment, they don’t have time to spend thinking about who is trying to take their freedom away.
So, why do I support the Fair Tax? Simply because it is so simple, it brings sanity and equity back to American taxation, and because the current tax system is one of ridiculous complexity and corruption. According to the Tax Foundation, Americans are estimated to have spent $265 billion in 2005 just to comply with paying their taxes. Imagine what Americans could do if that money were spent on productive activities.
This is just a very brief overview of the Fair Tax. For more information see their website at www.freetax.org. And thank you to my brother for his permission to publish our little chat. You can read his blog at www.minorsoft.com.