Some Extremists are not Wrong: Let’s Look at Income Tax
Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart
The most f**ked up law in America is Income Tax. The Income Tax Code Book consists of 6871 pages. Few of these pages involve the average working man. Most include ways for the wealthiest Americans to avoid paying their fair share. This is the only reason why our nation is more than 30 trillion dollars in debt in 2024.
At the end of the Constitutional Convention there was no provision which required an individual to pay taxes directly to the federal government. All American citizens would pay taxes to the state in which they resided, and the states would pay taxes to the federal government.
On July 1, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a law which would become the Internal Revenue Service. Today, we know this was a big mistake by our nation’s second greatest president. However, it was necessary. Confederate states were no longer paying taxes to the federal government, and fighting the First Civil War was costly, ranging from 28 million dollars a year at its beginning and more than 300 million dollars at its end.
A federal tax on corporate income was established in 1909. The Revenue Act of 1894 taxing corporations as entities, removing individual responsibility was established in 1894.
Lincoln’s establishment of an individual tax ceased after the end of the Civil War. Corporations should never have been allowed to form. This is another way for the super-rich to avoid paying for the privilege of living in America.
In 1913 the IRS became permanent with the signing rf the 16th Amendment. However, in 1894, the first effort to create a permanent income tax was struck down when the Supreme Court declared it “Unconstitutional.” Why this did not happen in 1913 remains unexplained.
Income tax has been used as a political tool for right-wing politicians for more than 100 years. Falsely calling themselves “conservatives,” which is a total misdirection of their intentions, they have reduced taxes for the super-rich drastically since 1981. The truth is that if two changes were made immediately, our nation would have a surplus in just a few years. Fair taxation and reducing our nation’s bloated military budget would greatly increase our critical fiscal situation positively, and reduce a national debt which will remain unpaid after the deaths of my great grandchildren.
Op-ed by James Turnage
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