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The Oppressed U.S. Taxpayer
This year, Americans’ day of tribute to their federal overlords falls on April 18. As calculated by the Tax Foundation, the average American will work from January 1 to April 24 (Tax Freedom Day) to pay his share of taxes to all levels of government with some $3.3 trillion to be forked over to the federal government and $1.6 trillion to state and local jurisdictions.*
While any talk of tax cuts are verboten on the Democratic side of the presidential campaign, the remaining Republican contenders have offered their views on the matter suggesting a flat tax, reduction in corporate tax rates, and a call for the consolidation of the current tax bracket from seven to four.* Most of these and their variations have been trumpeted before and even if enacted would not permanently undo the crushing tax burden or prevent rates from escalating to even more confiscatory heights.
If real and lasting tax relief is ever going to come, a more fundamental alteration of tax policy needs to be taken, which has not been suggested by any of the presidential contenders, but had once been an integral part of the nation’s political thought.
One of America’s most neglected political theorists of the 19th century was South Carolina statesman John C. Calhoun, who wrote the important treatise, A Disquisition on Government. Calhoun perceptively saw that politically, society is divided between two distinct groups: taxpayersand taxconsumers. Obviously, taxpayers are the ones who “pay” taxes while taxconsumers, such as government employees, welfare recipients, state contractors, and all others that receive income from the public trough, “consume” or live off taxation.
Naturally, when it comes to the issue of taxation, taxconsumers will be in favor, or, at least, want to maintain the status quo and, more than likely, would support notions of tax increases. Taxpayers, on the other hand, would oppose increases or enlargement of the tax base, since they are the ones “footing the bill.”
Of course, politicians of all stripes and colors try to blur this distinction that Calhoun so brilliantly made, especially on tax day by declaring how “they paid their taxes.” This, however, is sophistry.
In reality, politicians are just returning some of the loot that they coercively took from their fellow citizens. Federal government employees in essence do not pay federal taxes! Nor do individual state employees pay state taxes. This is merely an accounting gimmick to bamboozle the public. And, this is one of the reasons that, for the longest time (and wisely so), citizens of the District of Columbia could not vote in federal elections since most of them were government employees and would, in their self interest, oppose tax cuts or public spending reductions.
When government was limited and the welfare state effected only a small group, voting and levels of taxation did not have a significant correlation. However, with the number of people working for the government in the millions and those dependent on state largesse in the tens of millions, who votes, and in what numbers is extremely important.
It has been recently estimated that of the total U.S. adult population of some 260 million, only one third (some 79 million) can be said not to be dependent on state support for their existence while 70% of the adult population or 57% of the total population is dependent on some form of state aid. And, unfortunately, all indicators point to more and more headed for the dependency category, primarily due to the destructive economic policies of the Obama Administration.
All of those who seek to lower the oppressive levels of taxation not only in America but throughout the Western world are foolish if they allow those who parasitically live off others to have a voice in choosing candidates or initiatives in regard to taxation. Democracy does not trump human nature. State dependents will vote for those they perceive will continue their subsidies.
Instead of lobbying for the redress of phony grievances against Politically Correct victims and groups, social justice warriors should direct their energies to the long suffering U.S. taxpayers and demand that those who live off them should have no say in either how much taxpayers are to pay or how their confiscated wealth is to be dispersed.
*”No Emancipation This Year.” The Washington Times. Friday, April 15, 2016, B2.
**Ibid.
Antonius Aquinas@AntoniusAquinas
https://antoniusaquinas.com/2016/04/17/a-morally-sound-tax-reform-proposal/
This article is rife with assumptions and dead wrong conclusions.
Folks, a people that refuse to know the rules that govern their lives are chattel, period. So we all are either taxpayers or taxconsumers?
This is a belief! This has NO basis in reality. This shows a man that is 100% ignorant of any and ALL tax laws in the U.S.
Folks, imagine you are the owner of a gambling parlor and the dealer in all the games played there (creators of money) and you are in a game of poker. A man sits down at the table with pockets filled with money and ASKS to play (makes an application to be a taxpayer) because he believes he MUST ASK. You hand him a book of the rules of the game in your particular parlor (title 26) so the man has the opportunity to know HOW to play. The man (YOU) throws the book on the floor claiming “I don’t need no stinking rule book” (title 26) and you demand to play this 100% VOLUNTARY game sans ANY knowledge of how to play except what the owner (the fed via lawyers etc) hands down to you! The owner (the fed) knows what he says has NO legal impact since the rules are clear, confusing and complicated but clear. But hey, if YOU want to play a game you have no knowledge of and CAN’T possibly win without knowing THE F*&KING RULES THAT GOVERN THE GAME IN THE FIRST PLACE why would the owner (the fed) complain?
There is nothing wrong with title 26. There is EVERYTHING wrong with the ASSumptions all you ignorants make and claim as real while you ignore the rules believing changing WHAT YOU ARE 100% IGNORANT OF will free you OF WHAT YOU NOW HAVE NO LEGAL OBLIGATION TO PAY!!
http://www.LostHorizons.com
Pete has done the research FOR YOU taxpayers that are taxpayers out of VOLUNTARY ignorance so you don’t even have to do what I did which was to JUST START TO LEARN THE RULES OF THIS GAME. Just the beginning effort showed you MUST ASK to be a taxpayer unless you are engaged in a FEW VERY limited activities that most likely none of you are engaged in but none of you would know this would you because YOU don’t need no stinking rules! But you sure can complain about what you are 100% ignorant of. http://www.LostHorizons.com
Go there, read, comprehend, GROW UP!
Joe, great comment!
I was at lost horizons and came across a testimonial of Joe Black, and I wondered if it was The Joe Black, co-host or used to be co-host with Spike. So I clicked, and there you were giving your credit to an educated filing.
I’m so glad to actually know of someone that has GROWN UP TOO.
Thanks for being an advocate for the truth about taxation in America.
Also, because of your video and strong suggestion to read WGRaM we will be doing this as well.
Thats great Katie. Perhaps a next step could be for you to begin to fill your needs such as food by your own hands, warmth by your own hands etc?
I am not Joe Black. Just another Joe that began to wake up at 17. 43 years ago. Please spread http://www.LostHorizons. com as far and wide as you can.
Joe,
Would you please elaborate on this fine suggestion?
” Perhaps a next step could be for you to begin to fill your needs such as food by your own hands, warmth by your own hands etc?
You’ve been a freeman since a young man, so I suspect you have much wisdom to share, so I’m all ears, if you are willing.
Unless and until people learn who is responsible for federal and state taxes due to” gains” from a federal activity, they will continue to file incorrectly, thus providing “voluntarily” a portion of their earnings as well as all of SS and medicare “taxes”.
Read Cracking the Code by Pete Hendrickson and go to http://losthorizons.com/ and read and witness photos of refund checks in full amount as well as how to make an “educated filing.”
Too many calls for tax reform proposals, flat tax, etc.. because people either don’t know how to file based on the limitations of the fed. govt’s taxing authority and it’s jurisdiction to tax, or they are afraid to file correctly out of ignorance perhaps.
Again, get a copy of the book and read it, and then make an educated filing, and remember unless you are involved in receiving “gain” from a federally connected “activity” you have earned no “wages” 0.
There is no such beast as morally sound theft.
Profit should not be taxed either.
People have to get the idea that theft, force and murder can ever be justified.
Government is nothing more than theft, force, and murder.
The “Free Market” works where ever it has been tried.
I disagree about profit. It should be taxed at around 99.99999%.
Profit is income separated from labour. It is money made sans any work, skill, time or material invested. Profit is criminal. Profit is jewish as is usury. We probably do not have a common frame of reference about the meaning of profit.
Imports and exports should be taxed heavily as well.
All outward authority is theft, force and murder. We just call the largest gangs governments and fear the actors so much we are willing to pay them to lie to us and hurt us and kill us. There is a good quote by Kurt Hofmann. “Remember: Evil exists because good men don’t kill the government officials committing it.”
Profit is jewish as usery……Interesting.
When i worked at a bike shop we only taxed the parts, never the labor!
So i asked my boss why i was being taxed on my check when all i am doing is performing labor ?
Because it is the law, he said.
Confused the f’k out of me.Never seemed right.
Either everyone stops paying taxes AND employers stop accruing payroll taxes (both must occur simultaneously) AS WELL AS sending out 1099-MISC to independent contractors who must then NOT pay both portions of payroll taxes…for if no one pays taxes, just how does the IRS jail everybody? Heck they don’t even jail themselves…OR everyone pays taxes under threat of jail except for the Leona Helmsleys of the world…
Folks the only way taxes can be stopped is if NOBODY pays them! That’s the problem–getting everybody to stop paying taxes.
That is, Americans have to STOP BEING A BUNCH OF COWARDS!
Taxes? What taxes? I don’t need no stinking taxes! 🙂
America needs a good old fashioned Jubilee. And arrest the bankers. Go back to real money, Siver and Gold and Barter.