Subject: con games Comment: An enormous government, costing $1.7 trillion a year, requires a pitiless, energetic, take-no-prisoners tax-collection agency. If the IRS were reined in, revenue would plummet and the politicians would have to reduce government. No chance. The flat tax, sales tax, and IRS reform are con games whose time will never come. They are issues politicians can use to raise money and gather votes, but they will never be realities. We can be free of the IRS only by reducing government to its Constitutional functions -- eliminating the need for an income tax and the IRS, and letting the present level of tariffs and excise taxes pay for the remaining activities of government. "Tax reform" merely redistributes the awful burden of big government. The more people who are exempted, the more you will pay to cover the lost revenue. The come-on is that you'll pay less; the truth is that you'll pay more for the goodies the politicians give to their friends. I support the Fair Tax HR25 |