Income Tax is punishment for success, a phrase that describes fully what this tax does. Many Americans and companies
subjected to this painful annual process waste many costly, unproductive hours completing ridiculously complex tax returns for our
"voluntary compliance" tax system (or IRS will kick your door in). Many don't know that the 2nd Plank of the Communist Manifesto
specifies a graduated Income Tax. The Framers would NEVER have approved Income Tax.
Historically, the 16th Amendment was generated during the first American Progressive Era. The first major Progressive president was
Theodore "Teddy" Rossevelt, a cousin of the later Frankie Delano Roosevelt who created our current faceless, authoritative bureaucracy.
Because the great industrialists of the 19th century had amassed so much wealth from the production of petroleum products, automobiles,
steel, and railroads, the envious, angrily jealous governments (1887-1916) (progressives & socialists) decided to use the law to steal from
the producers (much like today). The government lackeys with Teddy at the lead and through a fraudulent, unconfirmed ratification procedure,
ratified the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, signed into law by another Progressive president, Woody Wilson, in 1913 three days
before Xmas. Also, Woody signed the Federal Reserve Act (FED) creating the central bank which caused the Great Depression (1929-1941)
and every recession since.
I have long advocated repeal of the 16th Amendment and the Federal Reserve Act, but our out-of-control, highly indebted federal
government maintains its social control with the Income Tax and finances our Warfare/Welfare state with the FED's "elastic dollar",
buying 40% of the U.S. bond float. Isn't $20Trillion enough?
This very expressive/educational video inserted 2/11/2023
Power Corrupts; Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely
Until 1913,
customs duties (tariffs) and
excise taxes were the primary sources of federal revenue.[3] During the War of 1812, Secretary of the Treasury
Alexander J. Dallas
made the first public proposal for an income tax, but it was never implemented.[4] The Congress did introduce an
income tax to fund the Civil War through the
Revenue Act of 1861.[5] It levied a flat tax of three percent on annual income above
$800. This act was replaced the following year with the
Revenue Act of 1862, which levied a graduated tax of three to five percent
on income above $600 and specified a termination of income taxation in 1866.
[Editor's Note: Marx's Communist Manifesto was published in 1848, plenty of time to reach America in 1862.]
The Civil War income taxes, which expired in 1872,
proved to be both highly lucrative and drawing mostly from the more industrialized states, with New York, Pennsylvania, and
Massachusetts generating about 60 percent of the total revenue that was collected.[6] During the two decades following the
expiration of the Civil War income tax, the Greenback movement, the Labor Reform Party, the Populist Party, the Democratic Party
and many others called for a graduated income tax.[6] See Plank #2 of Communist Manifesto.
The
Socialist Labor Party advocated a graduated income tax in 1887.[7] The
Populist Party "demand[ed] a graduated income tax" in its 1892 platform.[8] The Democratic Party, led by William Jennings
Bryan, advocated the income tax law passed in 1894,[9] and proposed an income tax in its 1908 platform.[10]
Before
Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., all income taxes had been considered to be indirect taxes imposed without respect to
geography, unlike direct taxes, that have to be apportioned among the states according to population.[11][12]
[Editor's Note:
Because of jealousy, both of wealth and power, Americans of 1887-1916 wanted a law that permitted government to legally take the wealth of the
industrialists that made America the greatest country on Earth. Their money and the earnings from today's producers have made the federal government
stronger than the People who supposedly tell our servants what We want done. The federal government ignores Americans unless they have
power. With an Article V, Convention of States,
the feds can be put in their appropriate place.
It should be emphasized that the Socialist Labor Party
("Workers of the World Unite!"),
the Populist Party and the Democrat Party "demanded" an income tax, not Republicans or today's Libertarians. The Populist Party merged into the Democrat Party.
]
Recommendations
I recommend two (2) movies for interested viewers. If Democrat voters (or any voter) want to understand what is wrong with their
party, I recommend a documentary movie that contains a completely corroborated history of the Democrat Party. The documentary's title is:
Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party. The documentary was produced by Dinesh D'Souza who was 'railroaded' by the Obama Administration into a
kangaroo court controlled by a corrupt judge and sentenced to prison for producing another documentary,
2016: Obama's America. All FACTS presented in these documentaries are the historical evidence of the failure of the Democrat Party although the Democrats have many allies that support these Communist/Socialist attempts to destroy
America, and no group of FAKE NEWS companies can deny the FACTS.
While America has a Constitution that guarantees freedom of speech, it doesn't guarantee an everyday political education. If Americans believe in their freedoms guaranteed by the
Bill of Rights, if Americans believe that Capitalism is the greatest creator of individual wealth the world has ever experienced (historical facts prove this assertion), then Americans
should know the people and organizations who want to destroy America from within. Therefore, the best documentary available that exposes and identifies these enemies who have grown
much stronger since the Russian Revolution is The Enemies Within.
Also near the end of The Enemies Within documentary, the video requests that citizens call their Senators and Representatives (those NOT affiliated with the Muslim
Brotherhood and other subversive Marxist organizations) to support
S. 68: Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2017 and
H.R. 377: Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2017.
After watching the video, you will clearly understand why the Muslim Brotherhood is trying to destroy America from within. Many current Representatives and Senators are affiliated with persons
and organizations whose precepts, behavior, and speech are as Marxist as Vladimir Lenin without identifying themselves as Marxist. One of these organizations has infiltrated America like a final
stage cancer. These un-American organizations must be excised like a massive tumor. This is NOT McCarthyism since you will SEE and UNDERSTAND the evidence presented in the video.
Governor William J. Le Petomane:
"We've gotta protect our phoney baloney jobs, gentlemen!" Blazing Saddles, 1974
"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." —George Orwell
Anyone who believes this country is free is an idiot!
By
Sondra Clark
/ @SondraClark / September 05, 2017
President Donald Trump, Speaker Paul Ryan, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told the American people
that if they gave Republicans the chance to govern, pro-growth tax reform would be their major legislative priority in 2017.
Now that the voters have given Republicans control of the White House, House, and Senate, there is a real
opportunity to achieve comprehensive, pro-growth tax reform.
Today, America�s tax code is outdated, anti-growth, over-complicated, and full of corporate favoritism. We have
an antiquated, Frankenstein�s monster of a tax code that doesn�t do any favors to the American taxpayer.
Its problems can be boiled down into the following three categories.
Americans need an alternative to the mainstream media. But this can't be done alone.
Find out more >>
Problem 1: Our Tax Code Is Not Pro-Growth
Our current tax code suppresses business creation, expansion, and reinvestment thanks to high tax rates. The U.S.
corporate tax rate is the highest in the industrialized world, which makes it difficult for American businesses to compete
with their foreign counterparts.
America�s tax code puts companies at a disadvantage by failing to allow full expensing, or the ability to allow all
businesses to deduct the full cost of new capital investments such as a building, machinery, technology, etc., necessary
for business creation and growth.
For example, under full expensing, if a small coffee shop wants to buy a new espresso maker they would be looking
at a $1,000 investment.
If the government has a tax rate of 35 percent, the shop owner can deduct the expense from their taxable income,
reducing their taxes by $350. This saving is a profit that can be passed along in the form of higher wages for the workers
or lower prices for the customer.
Without full expensing, the business wouldn�t be able to deduct those full costs, and what they could deduct would be
drawn out over a period of time. This would force them bear the full brunt of that new espresso machine.
This may lead them to potentially raise prices or to choose not to innovate or expand because of high costs.
The current tax code also taxes companies on the profits they earn overseas, discouraging foreign investment here
in the U.S. to the tune of $2.6 trillion.
It also punishes saving and investment through double or even triple taxation, hurting small businesses and families
looking to grow their personal wealth.
Full expensing or tax-free entrepreneurship allows business to grow and thrive.
Problem 2: Our Tax Code Is Too Complex
When it started in 1913, the tax code was 400 pages long. By 2013 it was over 74,000 pages.
Americans spend 9 billion hours complying with the tax code every year, which costs them over $400 billion in lost
economic productivity every year. It�s critical that we don�t just cut the tax rate, but that we work to simplify it as well.
More and more tax professionals are specializing in a small segment of the tax code, such as estate tax or small
business taxes or companies with large assets that depreciate.
But that level of specialization is only needed after a century of privileged lobbies creating loopholes for special
interests like Lady Gaga, Starbucks, and IHOP, and making the system more complicated for American families and workers.
Problem 3: Our Tax Code Is Full of Corporate Favoritism
Well-connected people and businesses routinely game the tax system, precisely because it�s designed that way. This
leaves the majority of hard-working taxpayers at a disadvantage.
For example, Nevada agreed to give Elon Musk�s Tesla $1.3 billion in tax incentives in exchange for them building a
lithium battery production plant in the state.
Timothy Carney
points out that other producers of batteries were experimenting with other types of battery power,
but when they found about the special interest subsidy given to lithium batteries, they abandoned their testing of those
battery types and focused on producing lithium.
Not only are taxpayers having to foot the bill for nearly a quarter of this for-profit investment, but there are opportunity
costs lost in what could have come out of further innovation that was halted because business owners wanted to take
advantage of a tax break.
To be clear, we shouldn�t begrudge a classic American company for paying as little as possible in taxes, but we shouldn�t
allow them to rig the rules of the game against competitors�especially when that results in higher taxes or less economic
opportunity for struggling American families.
So what is the solution?
In the coming months, Congress must work with the White House to come up with comprehensive, pro-growth tax reform
that lowers rates for individuals and businesses, simplifies the tax code, ends corporate favoritism, and encourages domestic
business creation, expansion, and investment.
Republicans can fulfill their campaign promises to create jobs, increase wages, and restore our stagnant economy back
to sustainable long-term growth through tax reform.
It�s time to roll up our sleeves and fix America�s broken tax system.
A new Congress has been seated, and it brings the prospect of perhaps, maybe, potentially, in a possible way doing something about the runaway federal deficits. And in other news, several New York area bridges are for sale, which you can acquire at a bargain price.
Excessive Spending Destroys!
Feds Have a Spending Problem—DO NOT RAISE THE CEILING!
Feds Have a Sewage Problem!
Joseph Story, Supreme Court Justice ... when the court wasn't part of the L-E-J Cabal
Joseph Story (1779�1845) was born during the American Revolution, and came of age in the early years of the new United States of America. He was a scholar of the U.S. Constitution, and, eventually helped found the Harvard Law School.
In 1811, Story was appointed to the Supreme Court by President James Madison — who knew a few things about the U.S. Constitution, in that he helped write it. Story was a contemporary of another famous member of the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Marshall (1755�1835).
"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."
See the following links for more related articles:
[Editor's Note: what I have dubbed the "Legislative-Executive-Judicial Cabal" which the American People have caused by ignoring the generational transition from our Constitutional Republic to what now is, in effect, an "elected" dictatorship. Never mind who is elected. Never mind which bogus party is in power. The superficial, theatrically staged, choreographed appearance of debate, disagreement, and stalled legislation always resolves into more government and less FREEDOM. We the People still lose more freedom after every "emergency" or unnoticeably when CON-gress passes another general, open-ended law that enables the Executive (dictator) and its unaccountable agencies to formulate more freedom-restricting regulations (200 pages a day get posted to the Federal Register). The "Dictator's" agencies (police force) continue to pile-up more weapons to squelch uprising(s) when the People finally realize and understand their tyrannical government.
Currently, CONgress is just a group of socialists, progressives, and faux-conservatives (career politicians) that, on a daily basis, ignores the Constitution, many of their own past statutes, and cedes their responsibilities to the president ("elected" dictator). A comparison to the history of Rome becomes more and more credible with the Executive and its "featherbedded" lackeys gaining more power while CONgress sits back all fat-dumb-and-happy.
CONgress has made recent efforts to expose State Dept. failures in Benghazi (inept political leader), Fast-and-Furious gun-running (criminal AG), IRS 1st amendment violations, gov't union Veterans Administration fraud, and whining about Obama(Reid)-killer-Care, but these efforts are mostly politics as usual. Most "citizens" will forget about these infringements from our unaccountable, uncontrollable Executive branch with its tyrannical agencies staffed by socialist unions that extort "juicy" contracts from the "elected" dictatorship.
Most positions in the federal government whether elected, appointed, or hired are nominal, make-work jobs (confidentially) designed merely to grow government, bilk money from private businesses and citizens, and eventually fully transform America into a totalitarian state. When this happens, CONgress will have destroyed the economy and the country by their negligence and counter-liberty policies, and it will be almost impossible to Restore America. The 'Restore America' list is only a beginning too.]
"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
James Madison, Federalist Paper 47, Friday, February 1, 1788
Anyone who believes this country is free is an idiot!
"Extortion and thuggery are good things when they're called law!"
Larken Rose
[Editor's Note: a Constitutional Convention is required to reverse the damage to freedom and liberty since 1900. This Article V was ratified by the participants at America's founding Constitutional Convention as an alternate path for repairing damage to freedom and liberty, a path for the People to restore damage caused by our failed representatives in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches of a government designed to represent the wishes of We the People.
The States must "demand" a Convention and explicitly specify an agenda of:
laws to be repealed or modified,
Amendments to existing constitutional clauses that define the co-equal branches to further specify and define, and
new Amendments or statutes to be eventually ratified by States.
These Amendments should further specify and clarify the powers of the Legislature and Executive Branches. A good example is the definition of a "Bill".
A Bill should contain ONLY verbiage in regards to the topic of the future law. NO earmarks and NO unrelated sections or attacments.
Many past Bills sent to a president for signature contained unrelated but essential funding sections that rendered the Bill veto-proof when it warranted a veto.
CON-gress can override a veto if the Bill is deemed absolutely necessary by CON-gress.
If the Bill requires SPECIFICALLY related amendments, the CON-gress can "debate" (with its usual theater) and vote any new amendments.
The original text of the Constitution contains some very GENERAL clauses enabling both CON-gress and Executive branches to write laws and
regulations with their particular nuances expanding powers beyond intent. "Intent" may be gleaned from a complete understanding of
Federalist Papers.
An example of further specification and clarity for CON-gress should be a clear, very specific definition of the boundaries for the interstate Commerce Clause.
To restore freedom, liberty, and individuality - minimally these must be repealed:
Currently, even with computer-searching systems, the list of antiquated and/or obsolete statutes (and related regulations) is unwieldy.
These statutes must be invalidated unless there remains an applicable reason for retaining the law(s).
Aside from invalidating statutes, there are many regulations that are biased in favor of large enterprises (who buy support from bureaucrats)
at the expense of the competition, effectively repressing the Free Market. Any regulations not related to public safety that gives a financial advantage
to some companies over their smaller rivals must be rescinded to enable all companies with good consumer products to excel without burdensome regulations.
Additionally, the Convention should adopt for ratification at least these new Amendments or statute modifications:
clearly define and limit the role of government in regards to the term "general welfare",
Term Limits for CON-gress (12 years) including a 6 month limit on time residing in DC,
strict Prohibition of Lobbying (with a comprehensive definition of "lobbying"), and
a Balanced Budget Amendment to stop wreckless spending. During a CON-gressionally declared "war" (only after USA is attacked or attack is proven "imminent"),
deficit spending is permissible.
Restore America to its roots, i.e. Defense, State, Treasury, and Justice. Some Agencies are required like CIA and NSA, both respectively focused on defense against real foreign aggressors and not fictitious paranoid delusions of war mongers. Other agencies help where certain interstate communications are necessary. Most agencies like Agriculture, Education, DEA, IRS (eliminated with 16th Amendment) and many other listed here should be eliminated.
Restore the world Gold Standard with five contentious steps, and
Replace the IMF, World Bank, and Export-Import Bank with facilities that reflect the new Gold Standard, and
After decentralizing and economizing, if tax revenue is needed to fund all or part of the federal government, then implement the Fair Tax.
Regarding a Constitutional Convention itself, some of the available literature warns the reader about a possible "unstructured" and "mismanaged"
Convention that might propose and adopt amendments that could damage the Republic.
Possible, however, it is difficult to envisage how much more damage could done over what the L-E-J Cabal has already done.
If the Convention's agenda and rules of order strictly prohibit violation of the rules and enable a vote on unlisted Amendments AFTER all others are adopted,
then the Convention will be properly structured and managed. ]
John Adams said, �Without [term limits] every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey�. That being said, here are some of the reasons we believe our country needs Term Limits.
Term Limits can help break the cycle of corruption in Congress. Case studies show that the longer an individual stays in office, the more likely they are to stop serving the public and begin serving their own interests.
Term Limits will encourage regular citizens to run for office. Presently, there is a 94% re-election rate in the House and 83% in the Senate. Because of name recognition, and usually the advantage of money, it can be easy to stay in office. Without legitimate competition, what is the incentive for a member of Congress to serve the public? Furthermore, it is almost a lost cause for the average citizen to try to campaign against current members of Congress.
Term Limits will break the power special interest groups have in Congress.
Term Limits will force politicians to think about the impact of their legislation because they will be returning to their communities shortly to live under the laws they enacted.
Term Limits will bring diversity of people and fresh ideas to Congress.
[Editor's Note: If you want to get rich, i.e. advance from a low paying government bureaucrat job on the local or state level, THEN GET ELECTED TO THE US CONGRESS (House or Senate). Once you're elected, it's easy to steal from your campaign contributions or the Congressional budget allocated to your seat and staff. You can go on a government-funded junket with 'lavishly' paid expenses. The list of ways to steal from the government while in office is inexhaustible. There are only a few Congressmen who left Congress just wealthy instead of a multi-millionaire. Of course, there are several who arrived in Congress as multi-millionaires and don't need to steal from the government.]
CONVENTION of STATES (CoS)
CONVENTION of STATES
BECOME a MEMBER-PARTICIPANT of CONVENTION of STATES here.
Get into the Action; Get information. Join here.
The CONgress (by
Article V of the Constitution) has proposed and
States have ratified many new amendments to the Constitution, some that increase their power over us citizens. CONgress can propose amendments, and the
alternative method to CONgressional proposals can come from States via
Article V. When "We the People" — meaning
a very large majority — are opposed to Acts of CONgress like the INCOME TAX or ENDLESS WARS or the FEDERAL RESERVE, Acts that restrict and regulate our
LIBERTY, Acts that are a waste of money, Acts that have caused unrecoverable indebtedness, then through local representaatives of our States WE can propose
Amendments to be ratified by States just like CONgress.
STATES and the PEOPLE of America are very angry at the federal goverment's violation of its
constitutionally-defined boundaries. States created the federal government in 1787 with LIMITED powers defined in the Constitution. All powers not
given by States to the feds remain with the States by Article X. The feds have through deceit, distortion, and falsification rearranged the entire contractual agreement
between States and the federal government. The feds have become a very powerful, all consuming force in American government. The time has come for States to rein in the federal government,
to take power back, to limit the federal government's power, and to add some detailed restriction to the definition of CONgress, the Executive, and the Judiciary.
In 1787 a central government was (is) necessary only to provide for the common defense and ensure equality
under the law for all Citizens, to provide a final arbiter for the resolution of unsolvable problems among States and People. Most laws and regulations that the federal
government has wreaked on the States and the People are unconstitutional. States are independent, sovereign countries who realized the need for a limited and defined
central government to prevent wasteful duplication of effort. The federal government, in 2017, is OUT OF CONTROL, infringing and interfering with State sovereignty and their
separate economies. A problem arose in 2012 with Arizona's attempt to secure their border with Mexico. An article is
here. States can prevent infringements
by the federal government with an Aricle V Convention of States to not only reverse past federal government "power grabs" but prevent future federal government
violations of their Constitutionally-defined boundaries.
A new, well-organized group of volunteers in all 50 states have gathered to restore America to
its roots by limiting all 3 branches of the federal government with a
Convention of States (CoS) organization (alternate site,
CoS Action). This is a Convention of States to AMEND the Constitution — NOT rewrite it!
Recently, CoS held an Article V, Convention
simulation with appointed volunteers from all 50 States. The simulated Convention demonstrated how a well-organized CoS can vote for proposed amendments
to the Consitution that are popular enough to be ratified by the necessary 3/4ths of States (38). Obviously, only proposed Amendments that are likely to pass
both Houses of the legislatures of thirty-eight (38) States, that is, the required 3/4ths of States to ratify an Amendment to the Constitution should be proposed.
See the Final Report here.
The purpose in a Convention of States, simulated or real, is to PROPOSE AMENDMENTS that give power back to the People. The proposed amendments must reflect the
thinking, objectives — the goals of people of States — who want to restore our Constitutional Republic to one that represents the people.
ARTICLE V Convention of States—Restore the Appropriate Balance!
ARTICLE V Convention of States—Restore the Appropriate Balance!
ARTICLE V Convention of States—Restore the Appropriate Balance!
A real CoS, requires that 2/3rds of States (34) send an "application" to CONgress requesting that
CONgress schedule a CoS. State Legislatures are composed of an Assembly and Senate. Each "house" must pass a bill separately and send the resolution to their
Governor. Then the State sends an "application" to the CONgress. When the federal CONgress receives applications from 34 States, the CONgress is required to set a date for
the Convention of States. CONgress is NOT involved otherwise. The States have the Convention, propose amendments, and dispatch the precisely worded amendments to
their respectives assemblies and senates for ratification. CONgress only schedules the Convention.
Until 1913, 
