Ed Haas

Understanding the Federal Income Tax Apparatus

August 27, 2004 -- According to the Internal Revenue Service, in fiscal year 2003 the IRS collected 13,952,294,000 dollars from the paychecks of South Carolina workers. That's thirteen BILLION nine hundred fifty-two million two hundred ninety-four thousand dollars of individual income and employment taxes collected by the IRS. Nationwide, the IRS collected 1,683,184,679,000 dollars from the American worker that same year. That's one TRILLION six hundred eighty-three billion one hundred eighty-four million six hundred seventy-nine thousand dollars. [Reference: Table 6 - Internal Revenue Gross Collections, by State, Fiscal Year 2003]

The 13,952,294,000 dollars that the federal government confiscated from the paychecks of South Carolina workers in 2003 represents something far more sinister than the average taxpayer recognizes. It represents the power needed by the federal government to control the state. It is the leverage that allows the sum of elected officials in Washington to blast the American people with a torrent of laws and regulations designed to manipulate and control honest law-abiding citizens into micro-manageability. As the percentage of income that the federal government confiscates from the wages of the American worker persists, the greater the need for states to receive federal grants to satisfy their own state's budget. When South Carolina needs the federal government to grant it money to meet its budgetary needs, which it does, the federal government controls the state. This is the real state of our union.

The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives coupled with Executive Orders and the Justice Department continue to slowly convert ordinary state offenses into federal offenses, thus rendering many state laws irrelevant. They pass into law, nationwide regulations to address regional and cultural concerns. Often these all-encompassing national enactments are beneficial only to a particular organization, enterprise, or special interest group. Since these agendas do not authentically represent the will of the people, professional lobbyists are hired to hype the cause in the halls of Congress. Once the political wheels are greased with crude distortions of data and danger, they become the law of the land. When South Carolina or any other state does not comply with these far removed federal standards, the federal government does in fact withhold funds (taxes) from the state until it comes into compliance.

The greatest misconception that most Americans have regarding the federal income tax is the impression that the federal government needs the tax to operate. It simply does not. If the federal government eliminated many of its 1322 federal agencies along with the thousands of sub-agencies that have been created to support the 1322 primary agencies, there would be no need for a federal income tax or a federal sales tax.

The constitutional function of the federal government is to maintain military readiness, protect America against foreign invasion, defend the liberty and freedom of its people, negotiate trade agreements with other nations, and very little else. States should be left to become distinguishable once again - handling state affairs as the people of each state see fit. States should once again reflect the social, economic, educational, spiritual, and cultural diversity of its people. Only upon allegations of a state government denying the liberty and freedoms of its people should the federal government ever intervene.

Reclaiming state sovereignty and personal freedom from federal government intrusiveness will not be an easy task. It will most likely require a violent uprising and persistent protest. The chance of change occurring peacefully is remote. Because people are fallible, government is made up of men and women who are fallible. When fallible people are given unrestrained power over other people, bad things become worse until the backlash of an oppressed people clearly awakens government to the reality of its constitutional restraints. When the masses come together prepared to live free, or die - dramatic changes will take place in America.

The people who support the federal income tax are practicing socialists. Most call themselves Democrats. Few understand that what they advocate is a contradiction to the Constitution of the United States. Socialism is the pre-cursor to communism, and despite what many Americans want to believe, communism is still a threat to capitalism. Communism is not dead. Its doctrine that demands the obliteration of capitalism and private property has not changed. Patriotic Americans who understand communism know the threat remains real.

The people who favor flat tax or a federal sales tax to pay for our socialistic federal government apparatus are nothing more than lipstick for the same pig. They may look better than the income tax supporters, but they still want to fund the unconstitutional activities of the federal government. They do not want to give up the benefit recognized by their centralized power either. Most of these people call themselves Republicans.

The people who see the elimination of the federal income tax with no new tax scheme to fund the unconstitutional activities of the federal government as the only peaceful means left to return the federal government to its true constitutional function - these are the irate minority whose burden it may well be to save our Republic. They call themselves Libertarians.

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