01-06-2017, 09:57 AM
Quote:I have a rather long list and the people that make that argument believe that the Amendment in question was not properly ratified. Assuming that the Amendment was properly ratified then that makes the income tax immoral in the same way that armed robbery is. If you have trouble with this concept then I suggest that you try not paying the IRS and see what happens. In the end it will involve people with guns taking your stuff much like the armed robber does.
Yet interestingly, replacing the income tax with a national sales tax - an outright likelihood if the Republicans attain a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate in 2018 - could very well lead to more government spending - not less: Why should rich people who can remember first-hand paying a 40% top income tax rate (even higher if they are really old) lose sleep over seeing their effective tax rate rise from 1% to 1.25% to build another round of interstate highways - or even eight new stadiums for NFL expansion teams?
And once the income tax is gone, it's gone forever - in that no future candidate, or future political party, could ever campaign on bringing back the hated IRS and hope to get elected.
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892