Subject: National sales tax Comment: As an American, I am very displeased with the way that our elected officials in Washington continue to disregard what the people want. Your job on the tax panel is to find a way to help eleviate the massive tax burden that our government has put on its citizens. We Americans work our tails off everyday to provide a quality of life for our families that we deserve, only to have it STOLEN from us each week by a system which penalizes personal achievment. All of you who sit on that panel probably don't have a care in the world because you have made your money and can afford anything that you recommend to the president, but I think that you have failed to understand that it is the people of this country who want a piece of the so called pie, are the ones that are suffering the most. Any kind of tax on the income of any citizen is basically stealing out of their pockets and giving it to a system that is so loaded with so many rules and regulations that it is impossible to understand. When you think about it, slavery is still alive in America and it never really was abolished. The people who pay income taxes (slaves) work everyday so that the government (master) can take the fruits of our labor by means of coercion. Ask yourself what would happen to us if we didn't pay our taxes. The government seizes your property, seizes your assets, and possibly go to jail. If that isn't coercion then what is? Why is it so hard to understand that the income tax is a legal way for the government to steal from it's citzens. Remember, just because it is legal doesn't make it right. I am requesting that you give the national sales tax another chance. I would applaud the efforts of any individual who says that they want to put all the money that I have earned back into my pocket. I dont think that you realize the potential of this type of taxation, and to dismiss it outright is basically telling me that you are not open minded and are not looking out for the taxpayers, but in the pocket of those on K street. I ask the panel, what is the motivation for the government to continue to break the backs of the citizens by taxing the income that they earn? Would it not be more beneficial to the country if EVERYBODY paid a tax on all items at the retail level, including those who come to our country and use our water, roads, electricity, garbage dumps? Can you even comprehend the amount of money that this would generate, not to mention the jobs it would create, and the investment opportunities it would bring back to our country. The only thing that I see is our country becoming a socialist state where there is a progressive income tax, no private ownership of business or property, a centralized banking system, no inheritance of property. But aren't we all ready on that road? |