Time for T.E.A. and a Fair Tax-Chuck Norris

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Time for T.E.A. and a Fair Tax

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Posted: April 13, 2009
1:00 am Eastern

© 2009 

Tea time anyone? I hope you've joined one of the thousands of T.E.A. (Taxed Enough Already) parties or Fair Tax rallies meeting across the country on April 15 to protest the outrageous government spending, the deepening of our national debt and the subsequent taxes that are forthcoming because of it. This is a nonpartisan time to rally around like-minded citizens and declare that we're tired of the same old political rhetoric, and we want a better way.

I personally encourage everyone to voice to their representatives that we need to return to a taxation system similar to that established by our founders. They did not penalize productivity through taxes the way we do today. They had no Internal Revenue Service. They believed in minimal taxation.

• They did not pay income taxes, which were prohibited by the Constitution;

• They did not pay export taxes, which were also prohibited by the Constitution;

• But they did tax imports. The founders believed in free trade within our own borders and a system of tariffs on imported goods.

That's a system that makes sense to me. It is a system designed to preserve individual liberty and encourage productivity (through no income taxes and no discouragement of domestic production through export taxes) while choosing to keep taxes as painless as possible (as taxes on foreign imports). And it doesn't require an Internal Revenue Service to run it.

The founders would have been horrified at the bloated federal bureaucracy we have now and the maze of taxes we have to navigate: income taxes, employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, gas taxes – it was excessive taxation like this that drove the founders to rebel in the first place.

All of the founders were opposed to domestic taxes. They regarded high taxes and aggressive tax collectors as tyrannical, and always to be guarded against. Patrick Henry warned:

Excisemen may come in multitudes; for the limitation of their numbers no man knows. They may, unless the general government be restrained by a bill of rights, or some similar restriction, go into your cellars and rooms, and search, ransack, and measure, everything you eat, drink, and wear." [A prophetic statement?]

The Internal Revenue Service wasn't started until nearly 100 years after the Revolutionary War in 1862 as the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Its creation coincided with the creation of the income tax, which it was designed to collect. Both were the work of President...

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The best answer is to abolish the IRS, sweep away the present tax code, and implement a Fair Tax that lives up to its name. As Mike Huckabee says, "Wouldn't it be nice if April 15 were just another sunny spring day?" (Mike will be hosting a Fair Tax rally in Columbia, S.C.)

The Fair Tax does away with all taxes and puts in place a single consumptive (fair) tax, which is the closest, practical, modern proposal to the taxation system favored by the founders. With the Fair Tax, the harder you work and the more money you make, the better off you and our economy will be. You pay taxes only when you buy something, which means you can control how much you're taxed, and you're never penalized for working hard.

It's time we had a system through which people didn't have to figure out ways to cheat to save their money. Again as Huckabee says,

The Fair Tax is a completely transparent tax system. It doesn't increase taxes. It's revenue neutral. But here's what it will do. It will bring a business back to the United States that is leaving our shores because our tax laws make it impossible for an American-based business to compete … the Fair Tax was designed by economists from Harvard and Stanford and some of the leading think tanks across the country. …

There are also trillions of dollars hiding in offshore accounts. With the Fair Tax, these people can bring their money back to invest here, which would give a huge boost to our economy. It's the biggest stimulation package there is. As the Fair Tax website says, "Think of it as the world's biggest economic jumper cables!"

If the Founding Fathers were here today, I believe they would support the Fair Tax. As James Madison said, "Taxes on consumption are always least burdensome, because they are least felt, and are borne too by those who are both willing and able to pay them; that of all taxes on consumption, those on foreign commerce are most compatible with the genius and policy of free States."

We don't need more tax reform. We need a tax revolution! And the Fair Tax will provide it. If we all jump on the Fair Tax bandwagon, and demand out representatives implement such a taxation system, we can economically restore our nation and make the financially impossible become possible again.

Friends, we must keep fighting. Join your nearest T.E.A. party or Fair Tax rally, and bring your cell phone too so that you can call Congress and the president to share why you've gathered together (the phone number for representatives and senators is 202-224-3121, and the president's is 202-456-1414).

If you haven't found the nearest location for a T.E.A. party or Fair Tax rally, go to teapartyday.com,fairtax.org or WND's list. Invite your friends, too. And don't forget to bring copies of this article or one like it that explains the Fair Tax, so others can be educated as well. Why wait? Forward it now to everyone you know, and let's get the party rolling!