Tax Reform or Tax Replacement?

Opinion

Opinion by George McClellan:Sen. David Perdue, as he said he would, has just reintroduced the Fair Tax replacement bill in the Senate, one that has been on the table for the past ten or more years. At the moment he has seventy-four co-signers. There has been as many as one hundred in prior congresses but it has always gone nowhere.

Career politicians at the federal level, especially the Democrats, absolutely fear the loss of their inherent power to punish us via the tax code. They insist it is fair and necessary to ensure our compliance for their Progressive/Liberal (Socialist), social schemes and big government investment (spending) programs. To lose that power is simply too terrible a thought to bear.

But where, one asks, are the other Republicans who could put a vote over the top? Why, most are cowering in the shadows afraid of taking a stance to economically liberate working Americans and thus the American economy because they have been sold the bill of goods, by the left, that mortgage holders won’t be able to claim exemptions, and the unemployment rolls would swell with hoards of out of work IRS personnel and Tax preparers in the private sector. Clearly, the Republican’s are afraid of taking the risk when there is no risk. Evidenced of this is reflected by the lackluster leadership of House Speaker Boehner and Senate Majority Leader McConnell despite promises they made.

Designedly, our massive progressive income tax code, complicated beyond any hope of repair, is pathologically designed to strip earnings away from producers and redistribute those earnings to losers basically on the socialist theory that the losers should be able to become consumers, thus helping the economy, at a rate near what the producers can do. It’s only fair after all.

Naturally, cheating, taking advantages of loopholes, outright fraud, and special favors to special interests of the politically favored, create the inevitable corruption such as we now see in the Bill, Hill and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the 1500 plus IRS agents caught red-handed having not paid their taxes for ten years and not being fired for it. Let’s not forget citizen Al Sharpton, who owes nearly four million dollars in unpaid taxes but is apparently exempt (for now) because of his politically favorable relationship with our alleged president. These are just a few prime examples of the slow destruction of America simply by its corrupted tax codes. America’s tax codes have become as politicized as have our other laws. A Fair Consumption Tax, sweeps all of that away. If consumption is the road to ruin, then let everybody pay for the ride there.

Too, the growing costs necessary, simply to maintain the Progressives deceptions and promote the idea of fairness, is argument enough to eliminate the behemoth that is the IRS. On top of that, the growing tendency for real tax payers, realizing they are being screwed more and more by their own government, will continue to seek ways to avoid participating in their own destruction by hiding their earnings in different schemes, plans and investments once thought undoable. The wealthy do it all the time. It can be done apparently, but not by Al Sharpton.

This necessarily promotes more lawlessness by growing black markets for example, followed by a system to protect those black market schemes. This inevitably leads to organized crime groups, such as we saw in the Prohibition era of the 1920’s and 30’s, and the ultimate corruption, by bribery, of the police. This is Obama’s America for the 21st century. This is also not a monopoly of the Democrat Party. It is the legacy of the corrupt career politician. I want to thank Senator David Perdue. He’s doing what he said he would do, for now. Remember, freedom is the goal, the Constitution is the way. Now, go get ‘em. (7 May 2015)

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