Comments on: IRS STEALING STIMULUS CHECKS!

By: jaredemyers

jaredemyers — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:57:40 +0000

I’d also like to see the IRS gone. I’d like to see a more simplified system.

I’m not so sure how I feel about a flat tax. But I wouldn’t mind the ideas they’re kicking around about a sales tax.

By: kerry

kerry — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:34:59 +0000

GRIM, I don’t think we can go back to the gold standard, see what I have been researching for months. Today’s post, THE GOLD OF FORT KNOX???

I don’t know how we can stop the government graft and corruption either, it seems that any halfway honest politician that gets into office quickly succumbs to the greed and perks they are exposed to.

I don’t know where it will all end but I do have a feeling it will be violent and bloody as have been the revolutions of the overtaxed, hungry peasants of history rising up against their greedy, ruling royalty.

By: grimgold

grimgold — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:46:34 +0000

What’s even more interesting is the states using both the income tax and the sales tax to collect income – that way fleecing people without them crying out so loudly because they don’t feel the fleecing in one painful lump.
You know darn good and well that we won’t get rid of the means for oils and others to avoid taxes. However, if they instead had to pay consumption they’d have a hard time avoiding taxes.
Further, the underground economy consisting of huge amounts of money for drugs and such avoids income tax quite obviously. These billions would be taxed under the national sales tax.
A lot of corporations are going international in order to avoid tax. Huge moneys are banked overseas avoiding tax. Not possible with consumption tax. Then when corporations spent the money (on capital equipment such as machinery, buildings, wood and paint for their widgets, etc.) they would pay the tax.
The earmarks spawned by govt supports govt, especially the federal bureacrats. For example, agricultural subsidies. Fed govt employees depend on the BILLIONS given to farmers needessly in order to justify bureaucrats govt positions.
Welfare has in the past done much more for govt than the people that it was supposed to help, obviously.
This is why I’m a conservative – I want smaller government and the resultant lower taxes. I want govt bureaucrats, especially the several hundred thousand employed by the IRS to go find honest employment.

Incidentally, the removal of the gold standard by FDR was also supposed to be temporary.

We need to go back to a currency that cannot be inflated.
People say to me that we simply can’t go back to a gold standard, which is wrong, but I suppose another way could be found. Dollars by govt declaration (fiat currency) depends on honest govt to work – something we certainly do not have. Inflation benefits only the govt. Period. Something must be done to stop it. We had ZERO inflation for 120 years and can have it again. Inflation creates poor people. It must come to an end.
I’m glad you agree with me about the IRS.
Thanks for the response, Grimmy

By: kerry

kerry — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:38:59 +0000

GRIM, I too would like to see the IRS and their goon squads gone. It was SUPPOSED TO BE A TEMPORARY TAX. But like all “TEMPORARY” taxes, surcharges and what ever else name they tack on, once the gov gets their greedy little paws on a buck they are not about to let go. I have explored the alternative and there are pros and cons to all of them. This country did pretty well BEFORE the IRS on property tax alone.

Nothing will change until we the people vote out all the enablers who support giving Dubya and his ilk every damned thing they want and more, without much more than a token resistance!

Get rid of lobbyists, earmarks and loopholes that the rich, oil companies and corporations use to avoid paying taxes and get religion out of government like the Founding Fathers intended when they wrote the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Too bad that all politicians don’t have to pass a test on American History, Government and The Constitution BEFORE they file to run for ANY office.

By: grimgold

grimgold — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:00:29 +0000

Kerry, I’d like to see the IRS gone. Flushed.
This is one of the appeals of the federal sales tax.
All tax would be collected from businesses, not individuals.
April 15 would become just another lovely spring day.
No more money pulled away from a person when he earns a paycheck. Instead the tax would be payed as money is spent.
The IRS is above the law. They can sieze property without due process and they have their own special courts.
The hated rich have influenced the IRS law through tax attornies and lobbyists until the law itself is beyond comprehension.
Please explore this option – the federal sales tax.