Income Tax Vs. National Sales Tax

September 11, 2001... December 7, 1941... February 12^th, 1913... all dates that will live in American history infamy. "February 12, 1913?", you ask. "What happened then?" Well, if you spent any time scrounging for W-2s, 1099s, 1098s, interest statements, receipts, mileage records, dependents, etc. on April 15, you ought to have a very good idea of what transpired on that date in history. It was then that the Sixteenth Amendment was ratified to the constitution conceived in class hatred under the guise that only the rich would be paying the taxes.

Ironically, if you can call it that, Karl Marx, the father of modern communism, wrote in 1848 (yes, 1848) in the Communist Manifesto the following: "...this [communism] cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads..." Karl Marx's #2 requirement to establish communism was "A heavy progressive or graduated income tax." (Not to mention others like a federal bank and free public education... okay are you scared yet?) For me, this alone is enough of a reason to oppose income tax. But there's more.

Did you know that before 1913 an income tax was deemed unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court? Did you know that the Sixteenth Amendment virtually repealed Article IV of the Bill of Rights empowering the tax collector to do the very things from which that article says we are to be secure? Under the Sixteenth Amendment, Congress can take 100% of our income at any time. Most of us presently give one third or more of all we make to Uncle Sam every year... then when we die he takes half of what is left... that makes two thirds or more of what you earned.

But there is a better way, and it is gaining rapid support. There is presently a move to abolish the Sixteenth Amendment and make April 15^th just another beautiful spring day. That move is centered around implementing a national sales tax and eliminating all others (like Social Security taxes, Medicare taxes, corporate income taxes, the death tax, self-employment taxes, the alternative minimum tax, the gift tax, capital gains taxes, tax audits, etc... are you feeling over taxed?) In essence you only pay taxes when you decide to spend your money.

All this is explained in detail in the book titled The FairTax Book by Neal Boortz and Congressman John Linder, an instant New York Times bestseller when it was released in 2005.

I don't know about you, but I'd rather pay taxes on the money I spend, not earn.