Taxes are theft. The "Greater Good" or "Good of Society" is a Communist lie. "But you use the roads don't you?" is a canard. We are tax slaves to the State.
Murray you haven't done your homework. Join the thousands of Americans who have gotten off their knees and self-assess the income tax as an excise. That's how the unanimous Supreme Court said to enforce it in 1916, rebuking the propaganda being widely spread by the Progressives, that the purpose of the 16th Amendment was to allow a direct income tax without apportionment. Did you know Murray that from 1914 to the beginning of WWII the average percentage of the population filing tax returns was around 9%. Why so low? It's an excise or privilege tax.
The two terms are synonymous. It wasn't until WWII and after that the percentage shot up to 90%. What happened? To finance the war and prevent runaway inflation the government needed a direct tax, not just the usual excises and duties, to generate the revenue necessary to prosecute the war. To avoid the political accountability of apportioned direct taxes the government resurrected the Progressive's 16th Amendment propaganda and ran with it, while lying about Brushaber and stuffing privilege taxes down the memory hole.
Frank Chodorov was an early victim of the Progressive's propaganda. He attended Colombia U. during the three years that the 16th Amendment went through the radification process. It was from Columbia U. and "court intellectual" political economy professor E.R.A. Seligman that the 16th Amendment propaganda was loudly eminating. See his hastily put together 1911 tome "The Income Tax" for a good example. Chodorov never recovered from his progressive indoctrination as his book amply illustrates. He never did the necessary research, as is typical among most libertarian writers when it comes to the income tax, to overcome the deeply entrenched lies. As Mark Twain observed: it's easy to fool people, what's difficult is to unfool them.
Taxes are theft. The "Greater Good" or "Good of Society" is a Communist lie. "But you use the roads don't you?" is a canard. We are tax slaves to the State.
The 3 branches of government...the tax thugs, the slave masters and the fools who pretend that they matter.
If any person were to perform a cost/benefit analysis of taxation, they would find costs are immense and benefits nil.
It would be far better were government to abolish all Taxation and institute full Public Borrowing.
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Murray you haven't done your homework. Join the thousands of Americans who have gotten off their knees and self-assess the income tax as an excise. That's how the unanimous Supreme Court said to enforce it in 1916, rebuking the propaganda being widely spread by the Progressives, that the purpose of the 16th Amendment was to allow a direct income tax without apportionment. Did you know Murray that from 1914 to the beginning of WWII the average percentage of the population filing tax returns was around 9%. Why so low? It's an excise or privilege tax.
The two terms are synonymous. It wasn't until WWII and after that the percentage shot up to 90%. What happened? To finance the war and prevent runaway inflation the government needed a direct tax, not just the usual excises and duties, to generate the revenue necessary to prosecute the war. To avoid the political accountability of apportioned direct taxes the government resurrected the Progressive's 16th Amendment propaganda and ran with it, while lying about Brushaber and stuffing privilege taxes down the memory hole.
Frank Chodorov was an early victim of the Progressive's propaganda. He attended Colombia U. during the three years that the 16th Amendment went through the radification process. It was from Columbia U. and "court intellectual" political economy professor E.R.A. Seligman that the 16th Amendment propaganda was loudly eminating. See his hastily put together 1911 tome "The Income Tax" for a good example. Chodorov never recovered from his progressive indoctrination as his book amply illustrates. He never did the necessary research, as is typical among most libertarian writers when it comes to the income tax, to overcome the deeply entrenched lies. As Mark Twain observed: it's easy to fool people, what's difficult is to unfool them.
It's a fascinating journey in revisionist political history. Get started at losthorizons.com/The16th.htm, losthorizons.com/TheNatureOfTheTax.pdf and losthorizons.com/BulletinBoard.htm.