The American Revolution was sparked in part by unjust taxation. After all, the colonists in Boston rebelled against Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” and summarily tossed English tea into the harbor in protest in 1773.
Nowadays Americans collectively spend more than 6 billion hours each year filling out tax forms, keeping records, and learning new tax rules according to the Office of Management and Budget. Complying with the byzantine U.S. tax code is estimated to cost the American economy hundreds of billions of dollars annually – time and money that could otherwise be used for more productive activities like entrepreneurship and investment, or just more family and leisure time.
The majority of these six billion hours sacrificed by Americans to Washington each year goes to complying with a tax that didn’t even exist until 100 years ago – the federal income tax.
Worse still, this tax has become a political weapon for Washington to incentivize certain activities (home ownership, charitable giving, etc.) and to punish others. It’s a tax that follows Americans wherever they go in the world, and it’s one that was originally sold to the American people by President Woodrow Wilson as a means of “soaking the rich” during the so-called Gilded Age.
How did a country that was founded on the concept of limited government come to embrace such a draconian policy? And what does it say about Washington that tax reform has become synonymous with class warfare and corporate lobbyists?
Read on to learn the history of the 16th Amendment
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Two amendments later they took away our booze…
We tax productivity
We subsidize sloth
How fucked up is that?
Years ago, when I was making big money, I was a victim. Never ended up paying the IRS a red cent. But my account purchased several homes on Maui. The object is to bleed you. And they’re good at it.
I honestly don’t think Trump or anyone else can fix the mess that we have allowed ourselves to get ourselves into. I’m afraid that eventually it will play out much as the American Revolution and the War Between the States did.
I sincerely hope I’m wrong, but in any event I probably won’t be around to see it.
I have mixed emotions about that, though, as you might guess.
However, as they say in Denmark, que sera, sera.
Vietvet
My opinion, you are not wrong. But there’s a caveat. There will be no agency to back their shit. They will need to rely on their own tactical teams. Which in the long run, are victims.
NO REPRESENTATION WITHOUT TAXATION! If you’re not paying at least some income tax, you shouldn’t get to vote.
Once upon a time Bostonians rebelled against unjust taxation. Today they vote for more of it. What happened? The Irish ? Something else?
Every person dumps off 50 fake tax returns a month, and they will be so behind on following up, they will soon be centuries behind schedule.
The income tax is immoral.
That’s why the Constitution forbade it, explicitly.
The Wilsonian Socialists were able to ram it (16th Amendment) through to ratification by a series of lies. Socialisms dark side (its reality) was not yet well known in the early days of the 20th Century, the murders of millions of Ukraines by Soviet Collectivism not occurring until the 30s, and the Great Starvation of China, which murdered an estimated 100 Million not taking place until much later, and it was supported by the “intelligentsia” of Europe and the more imbecilic Academicians of America.
Politicians of a totalitarian bent (Demonrats, primarily) immediately saw the potential for oppression and subjection while the other parties recognized the potentials for unlimited theft and corruption.
Thus, it passed.
We abandoned the wisdom of our Founders and embraced tyranny.
Between the 16th and Bretton Woods, America put its balls in a vise.
Rampant inflation, onerous taxation, endless liabilities, and de facto slavery.
The “Military/Industrial” complex was given wings and the Globaloney-ists were welcomed into every crack and crevice of government.
izlamo delenda est …