Posted by
Takeadair on Saturday, December 09, 2006 9:50:10 PM
Forget revenue neutral. Who says the government is entitled to what they steal from you now. The government is confiscating from you for functions not spelled out in the constitution.
Using the proceeds of armed robbery to aid the poor does not justify the armed robbery. Such actions do not reflect Christian Charity, either. Coerced "charity" is not really charity at all.
The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution is repealed along with all Federal Excise taxes and fees
Federal taxing is done ONLY by a sales tax. No more hidden taxes, like those on gasoline, tires and telephone for example.
To comprehend the poor and elderly as well as everyone else, food, housing, medical, medication, utilities, transportation and transportation maintenance for everyone are sales tax exempt.
The Only Money the Federal Government can pick your pocket for, is to support specific functions spelled out in the US Constitution, Article I Section 8. To refresh your memory here's what's in the Constitution.
Article I
Section 8.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
To establish post offices and post roads;
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
To provide and maintain a navy;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the "construction" (note: read the Constitution for the original word, townhall politically correct word screener doesn't like the original word) of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;--And
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.
The sales tax rate is set to cover the budgets of these specific government functions in Article I Section 8.
All other Federal Departments would be funded only to the point that you are willing to donate money to their cause. In other words, you reach into your pocket and contribute to these socialist programs instead of the government reaching into your pocket and stealing it from you. If they get contributions, they survive to the point they are funded by your donations. No money, no department. You care about the function, you will donate, if you don't, it dies.
This requires the end of pork. Nearly two decades ago, during dinner with the late Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek, Walter Williams asked him if he had the power to write one law that would get government out of our lives, what would that law be?
Professor Hayek replied he'd write a law that read: Whatever Congress does for one American it must do for all Americans.
He elaborated: If Congress makes payments to one American for not raising pigs, every American not raising pigs should also receive payments. Obviously, were there to be such a law, there would be reduced capacity for privilege granting by Congress and less influence peddling.
The sales tax rate is set for 3 years with a sunset clause. At that time, it would have to be adjusted to meet an updated set of U.S. and World conditions.
Ultimately what makes this tax fair, is all voters pay into the system.. There are no voters who don't contribute to the running and upkeep of the country.