Forum Post: TAX CODE RESET; A Year Well Spent
Posted 12 years ago on Sept. 27, 2011, 5:16 a.m. EST by AriaLittlhous
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Demand a year of national dialogue on the federal tax code. The beginning point is a blank slate; no exemptions.
It's not the Constitution or the Amendments that are the problem, it's the 12 yards of code written on them. There's no easy political way to attack part of it; it has to be shredded, recycled and started over.
There's nothing wrong with the original tax collection powers delegated to Congress. I would be glad to pay direct apportioned taxes collected by the State government. Sadly the federal government slipped Section 4 into the 14th Amendment, requiring all Citizens to pay off the national debt. So where previously the government had to essentially beg for funds, now it could just borrow them from the Federal Reserve, and force the Citizens to repay the debt by "appropriate legislation" (Section 5) aka the Federal Income Tax. I recommend watching Mr. Badnarik's course here: http://www.archive.org/details/ConstitutionClassByMichaelBadnarik
The problem with the tax code is that it's built it bits and pieces. Starting from scratch will enable us all to build a code that's fair and moves towards goals we all, as a country agree upon.