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

To: Mana who wrote (214899)	1/5/2002 2:08:06 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

<<I don't follow that line of thinking>> You don't understand. That is not "a line of thinking". I am simply relating to you the FACT of what the courts have decided, whenever they have been asked to render an opinion on the totally-irrelevant question of the overall practices of the IRS-with the blessing of our elected government-proceeding with the collections of taxes as defined in the code and regulations. My point is that the IRS does what it does because we (collectively) have elected a government that supports, in it's legislation and appropriations, those practices. The Congress, from time to time, instructs the IRS to modify it's practices (ex., to collect based on a different set of percentages), but they have not (yet) instructed them to, say, stop collecting taxes on wages, capital gains, and corporate profits, and, instead, collect on consumption, such as through a federal sales tax. When and if they do, the IRS will completely change everything they do now to something else. The key is that the 3rd branch of government, the courts, are highly unlikely to declare the entire system unconstitutional or illegal, because they are unwilling to interfere with the very obvious will of the ELECTED branches of the government. It is the general belief of the courts, with a few very narrow and specific exceptions, that it is up to the PUBLIC to give the elected bodies such instruction, through the electoral process. We can, and perhaps someday we will, VOTE OUT the current tax system, by changing the make-up of our Congress. But, until then, it survives on legal ground of pure granite...