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Not too bright, and dangerous.
and...
Slightly better trained, and still dangerous.
If they can't show your signature, it is not your debt...
Originally posted by TheMagus
True News 9: Screw the National Debt - You Are Not the Nation!
If they can't show your signature, it is not your debt...
Originally posted by SQUEALER
There should be no income tax. An income tax requires the government to track people, peer into people's privacy, interfere with people's personal financial planning, intrude into people's lives, and will eventually cause the government to have a "real ID" for every individual, monitoring everyone as they go about their daily business.
So income tax creates an anti-freedom environment, by it's very nature. It's a tax that reduces liberties, and thus opposes the U.S. Constitution's principle of "ensuring Liberty to ourselves and our posterity."
On the other hand, a sales tax doesn't require the tracking of all individuals, nor requires "real ID", doesn't intrude into anyone's personal finances, doesn't require the government to monitor people, and thus is consistent with the Liberty requirement of the constitution.
Therefore, in the interest of upholding the constitution, all income tax should be repealed, and replaced with sales taxes.
No one should be punished for working and earning a wage. And taxes are a form of punishment. It's ok to punish people who consume too many things from the society, draining the resources of the land, so a sales tax is a good thing, since it constrains excessive consumption.
Originally posted by mikegrouchy
[ I don't know if this should be in the Rant section or not,
mods please feel free to move]
He'll do it.
It's the last place that corruption can hide in Washington.
What-the-hell-am-I-talking-about.
I'm probably the only conspiracy theorist that thinks the Federal Reserve,
has served this country well. (should lose 50% of the audience with that one.)
If it wasn't for the independent Federal Reserve, we wouldn't even know
that we have 13.75 trillion in debt. Just like used to happen for hundreds
of years the rulers would just tax the hell out of us, squeeze the peasants,
and then blame the whole problem on us for "being lazy" or for "not
producing enough." But with and independent Fed they can't play that
game. Someone has been keeping accurate records. The debt is real.
And we the people didn't create it.
The [color=gold] only place left to hide corruption is within the IRS.
You want to donate one million to a Candidate? You give the money,
then when elected the candidate gets you one million in tax breaks.
Or better yet, two million as a thank you. With thousands of pages of
tax code, no one can sort it all out. And since they can't hide their
corruption on the printing side, they hide it on the collection side.
Hell the IRS could audit someone, say they owe ten million, slap on
another two million in penalties and then ruin someone that way.
But the day after, they pardon them. On paper anyway. And never
send the twelve million on to the Fed to pay down the debt, and they
never tell the person that it was all a mistake. That money just
disappears. The audited person thinks they paid it, but the Fed
doesn't know to expect it.
The IRS is the last place politicians and corrupt officials can hide
their monkey business. And it looks to me like the President will
do it. He'll investigate them, maybe even get us a flat 30% tax,
with anyone who makes under 40k a year being exempt. Eliminating
thousands of pages of rules, and regulations.
But here is the real problem.
We haven't had a president with the authority to investigate any
department of government since Nixon. The pundit machine is
too well oiled. Someone will fund a divisive issue, and drown out
the sitting President with noise, sound, fury, angry people.
I say to those who dislike Obama, who think he is a threat, or
even "up to something." If he is a weapon, then we should use
him. Against the IRS.
/end rant
Mike Grouchyedit on 21-5-2013 by mikegrouchy because: (no reason given)edit on 21-5-2013 by mikegrouchy because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by jinni73
Umm do you not know its all interest and to say your a conspiracy theorist and not know they killed jfk and lincoln to keep it that way means you are not a very good one