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Do We Need to Replace the Income Tax with A Fair
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Do We Need to Replace the Income Tax with A Fair Tax?

By Steve Hempfling

There has been much discussion about replacing the
Income Tax with some other form of tax. While this idea has been around for a
while and most of the people supporting it are well meaning, I want to examine
if a replacement is needed.

How will the Government Survive?

I talk to groups from coast to coast and many of them absolutely believe the
government would fail if the income tax were repealed. This is a common idea and
one that certainly appears to be sound. But this is based on a misconception
that the income tax is most of the federal government’s take in taxes. On
information, from the US Government Accounting Office, the personal income tax
is only 43% for 2009. You pay a lot of taxes without considering the income tax.
This shows that the income tax is no where near 100% of the federal tax
money.

Free Enterprise Society wants to eliminate the income tax due to fraud and
deception of the income tax. We also want to restore the adherence to the US
Constitution. This means that we want it followed and those that do not follow
it – punished.

In my opinion the government can get by without the income tax if we limit
the federal government to the US Constitution, which is what we intend to do.
The federal government needs some tough love. No elected official has been held
accountable for lying, cheating, or stealing for some time. But this era of
corruption is ending and many elected officials may find themselves behind bars
in the near future. Americans are going to demand very strict accountability in
the future.

Would a Sales Tax be Constitutional?

The replacement taxes such as National Sales Tax, Fair Tax, VAT tax, being
considered now, do not appear to be constitutional. Would it be a fair statement
to say that congress has used and abused every taxing power in the Constitution?
I believe so. Then it would follow that if these alternative taxes were
constitutional, we would already have them. The congress would need to ask us to
vote the congress additional taxing powers to implement any of the above taxes.
This would be a serious mistake on our part.

I am not totally against a new tax providing it conforms with the US
Constitution, but I am against giving the government a pass for lying to us for
nearly 100 years collecting a tax we did not owe. I am against replacing one
invalid tax for another unconstitutional one. Also, just because the government
has had illegal spending in its budget for so long, that does not mean we need
to continue illegal expenditures. If we want the government to follow the
Constitution, then there is no room for exceptions. That is what we have today —
Exceptions to the Constitution resulting in practically no Constitution.

The government can survive with constitutional taxes providing it’s
expenditures are constitutional also. From the 2009 expenditures it appears that
60% or more of the money spent by government does not conform with Article 1
Section 10 of the US Constitution.

Will the Income Tax go Away?

Anyone that believes the income tax will be replaced by some new tax and we
will never see the income tax again is in denial. Simply watching what has been
done in the past will show the government’s intent. The income tax may go away
for one or two years but then it be will brought back again. You will be told
that it is being brought back on a very limited basis and that the average
American (you) will never know it’s there. These were the words used in 1913
when purportedly passing the 16th amendment.

Can this be done overnight?

The income tax would need to be phased out over maybe 10 years and that would
allow for the workforce to adjust from government jobs to private jobs. ( There
would be tons of unfilled jobs in the private sector. ) The elected officials
would have to really (not lip service) clean up the waste or go to jail. There
are 1,000,000’s of government workers today that are not needed or are in
unconstitutional positions.

More taxes would mean more irresponsible
behavior

The government wants to double your taxes. Even if we allowed this, the
government would just find ways to double the budget again and then taking more
away from us AGAIN in more new taxes. Details from the US Government Accounting
Office show that, in 2009, the US collected 2.1 Trillion dollars in taxes. But,
the government spent 3.5 Trillion Dollars in the same year. Arghhhhh. No matter
what the American People give, government will irresponsibly spend more and
more. This stops here! This stops now!

Conclusion

I believe we can get rid of the income tax and not replace it. The Federal
Government Budget will be much smaller when limited to constitutional
expenditures. ( Smaller by 60-90% )

Simply by adhering to the US Constitution we can:

Remove the Income Tax! End the Fed! Have Fast Economic Recovery! Have
Freedom! Have secure Borders and Country! The Best Army in the World! Have NO
Debt! Again be the Example for the World!

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Steve Hempfling co-founded Free Enterprise Society in1985.

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