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"Fair Share" is a buzzword for "don't complain to the slave master."
Compulsory labor for the benefit of another, whether imposed by private or public authority, is slavery.
And if it was voluntary servitude, but the consent was acquired by FRAUD, it is equally repulsive.
If you have to pay a tax to own or earn, you're not a capitalist nor a freeman, but a socialist serf. You no longer have the right to life, but a government taxable privilege.
Governments instituted to secure (endowed) rights have no power to tax rights. They can tax only government privileges.
Ask your public servant to explain exactly WHAT government privilege imposes an income tax on you.
‘The income tax is, therefore, not a tax on income as such. It is an excise tax with respect to certain activities and PRIVILEGES which is measured by reference to the income which they produce. The income is not the subject of the tax: it is the basis for determining the amount of the tax.’
- - - F. Morse Hubbard, Treasury Department legislative draftsman. House Congressional Record March 27th 1943, page 2580.
‘When a court refers to an income tax being in the nature of an excise, it is merely stating that the tax is not on the property itself, but rather it is a fee for the PRIVILEGE of receiving gain from the property. The tax is based upon the amount of the gain, not the value of the property.’
- - - John R. Luckey, Legislative Attorney with the Library of Congress, ‘Frequently Asked Questions Concerning The Federal Income Tax’ (C.R.S. Report for Congress 92-303A (1992)).
‘The terms ‘excise tax’ and ‘PRIVILEGE TAX’ are synonymous. The two are often used interchangeably.’
- - - American Airways v. Wallace 57 F.2d 877, 880
‘Excises are taxes laid upon the manufacture, sale or consumption of commodities within the country, upon licenses to pursue certain occupation and upon corporate PRIVILEGES.’ ‘…the requirement to pay such taxes involves the exercise of a PRIVILEGE…’
- - - U.S. Supreme Court, Flint v. Stone Tracy Co., 220 U.S. 107
Scoffers claim that the 16th amendment granted Congress the power to tax incomes. But did it?
The Sixteenth Amendment "conferred no new power of taxation."
- - - Stanton v. Baltic Mining Co., 240 U.S. 103 (1916); see alsoBrushaber v. Union Pac. R. Co., 240 U.S. 1 (1916).
‘The right to follow any of the common occupations of life is an inalienable right…’ And ‘It has been well said that ‘the property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of the poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his owns hands, and to hinder his employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper, without injury to his neighbor, is a plain violation of this most sacred property.’’
- - - U.S. Supreme Court, Butcher’s Union Co. v Crescent City Co., 111 U.S. 746 (1883)
"The revenue laws are a code or system in regulation of tax assessment and collection. They relate to taxpayers, and not to nontaxpayers. The latter are without their scope. No procedure is prescribed for nontaxpayers, and no attempt is made to annul any of their rights and remedies in due course of law. With them Congress does not assume to deal, and they are neither of the subject nor of the object of the revenue laws..."
Economy Plumbing & Heating v. U.S., 470 F2d. 585 (1972)
The point is simple. Somehow, your "right to labor" was converted to a revenue taxable privilege to labor, and thus you now owe a tax, based on the income. Somehow, you changed from being a nontaxpayer (with rights) into a taxpayer. You might benefit from asking your public servant to explain EXACTLY how that was accomplished.
I suspect that 97% of Americans would withdraw consent, if they knew exactly how and when that was done. Few, if any Americans want to pay taxes.
In the context of the above, I would argue that subsistence income should not be taxed; I don't understand the reasoning by which earning a subsistence income can be considered a privilege.
In the course of reading various tax laws I was surprised to learn how very many different activities are considered privileges.
Arizona allows cities and counties to levy a Transaction Privilege Tax (TPT) of up to 3% on real estate rentals, which can be surcharged in the rent charged. (I'm guessing that landlords are required to list the TPT separately for transparency.)
Which means that the tenant explicitly pays the tax. Which means that renting a roof over your head is also a privilege.
It's a federal income tax, not a wealth tax. But even so, looking at the IRS's latest federal income tax data, the Top 1% is paying 37.80% of the federal income tax revenue while earning just 19.04% of the income.
Meanwhile, the middle class (if defined by the top 25-10%) is paying 16.47% of the federal income tax revenue while earning a larger share than that of the income: 22.23%
Given those facts, prove that the middle class is paying their fair share.
Stagnant wages despite increased productivity, longer hours and increasing cost of living. I never hear about any wealthy children in the military defending our freedom. Crumbling infrastructure. All at the expense of keeping taxes on the rich low while most people live paycheck to paycheck and the national debt rises. Of course those things are more difficult to quantify. However they are sacrifices burdened by the lower classes so the elites can be even more wealthy......
I think the poor need to pay up too. Many speculators and Wall Street Fat Cats are suffering and need tax breaks. If they can't pay they should be forced to entertain the rich folks with fisticuffs....
Using a hypothetical 10 percent flat tax rate, someone (call them A) with $10,000 GROSS wages pays $1,000 and keeps $9,000 to live on while someone (B) with $1,000,000 GROSS keeps $900,000 to live on.
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Fine by me. And the key is corp and personal rates also the same.
The rich get tax breaks, the poor get free benefits. The middle class is already doing more than it should and is carrying the entire nation on its back. When the backs of the middle class go--there goes the nation.
The rich get tax breaks, the poor get free benefits. The middle class is already doing more than it should and is carrying the entire nation on its back. When the backs of the middle class goes--there goes the nation.
SOME of the poor get free benefits. Babies and baby mamas get free benefits. Before Obamacare, childless adults got next to nothing. In some states, childless adults still get next to nothing but they subsidize property taxes for everyone else.
Then shouldn't the schlub taxed down to $9,000 be allowed to rent a dirt-cheap hovel?
If he/she can find one that meets all codes, of course.
But the schlub is also free to work a 2nd job , too.
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