Repeal the Sixteenth Amendment!
What's the difference between a Southern plantation and the income tax?
MAKE AMERICANS FINANCIALLY INDEPENDENT
Slavery is the antithesis of human freedom. Although slavery—involuntary servitude- was abolished in the US with the Thirteenth Amendment (1865), a modern form of slavery was introduced in America when the Sixteenth Amendment (1913) was added to the Constitution.
The difference between slavery and the income tax is one of degree. A slave is “taxed” 100 percent, while the total tax burden for some taxpayers could be as high as 40-50 percent, if we include payroll taxes, property taxes, and sales taxes. In short, for upper and middle income taxpayers, their tax burden is unconscionable.
There is nothing in federal law or in the Constitution that prevents the federal government from taxing us 100%. Frank Chodorov recognized this in his classic, The Income Tax: Root of All Evil.
In other words, the tax issue is really a spending issue. Spending begets taxes, taking money away from income earners.
As Thomas Jefferson observed in his first inaugural address: “… a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government…”
The US does not have a “good government,” and is eons away from a constitutional federal budget. And why is paying the income tax as complicated as it is? The simple answer is ideology and politics.
Once the income tax was introduced it made possible the US becoming a quasi-centrally planned, welfare state that micromanages virtually aspect of our lives—from medical care, education, energy, housing, transportation, agriculture, trade, and scores of other economic activities. In short, there is no constitutional basis for federal government to spend the taxpayers’ money on authorized programs.
Today’s Wall Street Journal reveals how the tax code and government spending have become political footballs. The editorial page, letters to the editor, and articles about the negotiations to come up with Trump’s “big beautiful bill.”
The editorial about the tax bill winding its way through Congress is an example of the endless politics about the tax code. Instead of spending countless time and energy to manipulate the tax code to appease this group or that group, the solution is to abolish the income tax, lock, stock, and barrel, so the people and the pubic can spend their own money—the essence of a free society.
As far as the alleged efficiency of Social Security as an example of a successful government program, economist James Payne (second letter) demolishes this unwarranted assertion.
Government programs and taxes have huge “opportunity costs” and thus the solution is to downsize the federal government and abolish the income tax and payroll taxes.
In the meantime, spend as much time as you can enjoy all the wonderful opportunities America has to offer despite the feckless politicians and their minions, henchmen, hanger-ons, and parasites in our midst who believe they have a claim on the income of society’s producers and workers.
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James Bovard on protectionism.
Recent interviews discussing the state of the economy with Perry Atkinson, Jim Peters, and Randy Durham.
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Dave Campbell and I discuss MAFI on the Clarity and Chaos podcast.
Col. Mike and Dr. Mike and I discuss Trump and his promises on the National Security Hour.
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Restoring free enterprise, medical freedom, and a constitutional federal budget.
The insufferable Jim Cramer reveals his economic ignorance in a recent CNBC rant.
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Tom DiLorenzo’s pamphlet, Axis of Evil, is now available at the Mises Institute.
Order a free copy of Rothbard’s money and banking classic monograph. Or, you can read it online here.
My December 10 talk on medical care.
Bob Murphy interviews Dr. Keith Smith of the Surgery Center of OK.
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Murray Sabrin, PhD, is emeritus professor of finance, Ramapo College of New Jersey. Dr. Sabrin is considered a “public intellectual” for writing about the economy in scholarly and popular publications. His book, The Finance of Health Care: Wellness and Innovative Approaches to Employee Medical Insurance (Business Expert Press, Oct. 24, 2022), and his other BEP publication, Navigating the Boom/Bust Cycle: An Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide (October 2021), provides decision makers with tools needed to help manage their businesses during the business cycle. Sabrin's autobiography, From Immigrant to Public Intellectual: An American Story, was published in November, 2022. He is also the author of Why the Federal Reserve Sucks.
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From Fruit From a Poisonous Tree by Melvin Stamper:
Edward Mandell House had this to say in a private meeting with Woodrow Wilson (President, 1913-1921) From the private papers of Woodrow Wilson:
“[Very] soon, every American will be required to register their biological property in a National system designed to keep track of the people and that will operate under the ancient system of pledging. By such methodology, we can compel people to submit to our agenda, which will affect our security as a charge back for our fiat paper currency. Every American will be forced to register or suffer not being able to work and earn a living. They will be our Chattel and we will hold the security interest over them forever, by operation of the law merchant under the scheme of secured transactions. Americans, by unknowingly or unwittingly delivering the bills of lading to us will be rendered bankrupt and insolvent, forever to remain economic slaves through taxation, secured by their pledges. They will be stripped of their rights and given a commercial value designed to make us a profit and they will be none the wiser, for not one man in a million could ever figure our plans and, if by accident one or two would figure it out, we have in our arsenal plausible deniability. After all, this is the only logical way to fund government, by floating liens and debt to the registrants in the form of benefits and privileges. This will inevitably reap to us huge profits beyond our wildest expectations and leave every American a contributor or to this fraud which we will call “Social Insurance.” Without realizing it, every American will insure us for any loss we may incur and in this manner; every American will unknowingly be our servant, however begrudgingly. The people will become helpless and without any hope for their redemption and, we will employ the high office of the President of our dummy corporation to foment this plot against America.” ….
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"as much time as you can enjoy all the wonderful "
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