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 millio...