Comment: Dear Sirs: My family and I feel it is extremely important that we add our voices to the many thousands you have already heard in regard to tax reform. As law abiding American citizens we not only appreciate the freedoms that our country provides it's citizens, but we also recognize that they (freedoms and citizens both) need constant protection from those that would intentionally usurp their power to thwart them. Without question the Internal Revenue Service must be either abolished or greatly altered to eliminate the grossly illegal actions it has pursued with vigor over the last eight decades, to the great ill fortune of a largely unsuspecting American public. Countless thousands of lives have been inextricably altered by the unlawful application of frivolous and self serving interpretations of tax law; the will of this corrupt agency is thrust upon hard working citizens to the extent that any lawful voice of reason and resistance to its intimidating presence is subject to threats and illegal seizures. Let us remember how a cognizant House and Senate nearly abolished this corrupt Federal agency in 1998. Do away with the gestapo, bring peace and justice back to the American worker. When people bring home all their earnings, as section 861 and its subsections in the tax code plainly assert is their lawful right to do, they will be inclined to spend it accordingly. Vigorous stimulation of the free market system is the only natural expected outcome when people are given control of their own finances. Elimination of the billions of dollars spent in paperwork and needless policing of this "free society"would make this an attractive pathway. The institution of a National Sales Tax, or Value Tax, is the only viable solution that allows economic, personal, and constitutional factors to construct a system whereby every individual contributes to the tax base in a fair and proportional manner. It values the limited resources of the poor by relieving them from any significant taxation burden, and encourages revenue collection in those segments of the population that stimulate the free market through their purchases and business activities. It rightfully puts money back into the hands of those that earn it, and then encourages commercial enterprise while garnishing greater federal tax income than the current antiquated, corrupt and cumbersome system presently does. The Advisory Panel on Taxation Reform seems to have already declared its self serving interests in voicing little support for a Value Tax. Why would it, when a former IRS Commissioner, top representatives of the nation's leading tax litigation specialty firm, and others with a vested interest in keeping the "status quo" comprise its membership? How can this panel expect to merely revise and revamp a broken machine with token concessions and legal "bandaids" under the watchful eyes of an ever growing number of citizens that are too intelligent to be fooled by a game of fog and mirrors, too assertive to be silenced by corrupt voices in authority, to resiliant to be worn down by gestapo techniques of intimidation and fear? It is time for those on this panel to act with honor and farsightedness, to protect the cherished and hard fought rights that all of us as Americans enjoy and deserve, and to protect future generations from a rampant federal agency grown wild and seemingly impervious to even the most basic constructs of law. Institute a National Fair (Value) Tax in the best interests of all American citizens, for this and future generations of Americans, so that all may share in the economic promise of the greatest democracy and free enterprise system the world has ever known. The Philip and Donna Ralidis Family |