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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (23588)	7/11/2000 9:07:04 AM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

From 1776 to 1914 the legislative and judicial branches of the United States of America agreed that taxation of individual income would be a violation of individual rights and property rights of privately created wealth. During the emergence of socialism in Europe, the U.S. was unduly influenced by those alien political experiments and Congress tried, in session after session to introduce and pass a tax on personal income. It was defeated each time until 1914. Many Senators and Representatives went on record declaring it was the darkest of days for the Republic. Congress was able to get it passed and get a majority of state governors to agree to it by promising that only personal income exceeding $5,000 a year would be taxed. Since less than 1% of the population earned amounts exceeding that sum, the governors felt politically safe in accepting the deal. In 1917, the same year as the Russian revolution, an new federal agency called the Internal Revenue Service began its daily operation to the consternation of many loyal Constitutionalists. Later, under an "emergency act" during World War II, employers were ordered to calculate and withhold income taxes "due" the government and forward them in each pay period to the Treasury Department. This was sold as an emergency measure to help fund the war effort. It was promised that it would be rescinded after the Allies' victory. Today, 55 years later withholding is still with us. Taxation of individual income violates individual rights and property rights. It would not stand in a free society -- like the one we had, more or less, for the first 130 years or so of our country. It is just one more major reason that Americans live under an illusion that we have real freedom and liberty in the USA. We lost much of that years ago and continue to lose more virtually every year. cats.org