2007 Soap Box Archives

Flat Tax

Did you ever stop and think how wonderful it would be not to have to do, or in my case have done, income tax returns every year and sitting back wondering if your return is going to be flagged by the IRS and you'll be called in to explain why you claimed such and such a deduction?

Well stop and think about this. What if there were no IRS returns to fill out? What if, when you ended your year, all your taxes would have been paid to the penny with no worries of making a mistake on a tax return form that looks like an application for a nuclear reactor permit?

It would be so simple to achieve that, but every time a flat tax is mentioned the Kennedys and Clintons and their ilk start bellowing about tax cuts for the rich or being unfair to the poor.

Well all their pseudo compassionate blabber is nothing more than crass, dishonest political tactics. They know that the right kind of flat tax would work, in fact, it would be much more efficient, raise more money and be more
humanitarian than the heavy-handed mega monopoly they have in place now.

It would be so easy, we just pay our taxes when we make our purchases, quick, clean, end of story. No forms to fill out, no cheating on income taxes, no flagging by the IRS for making a mistake on their ridiculous forms, no government collection agencies knocking on your door threatening to take your first born child because you owe the IRS.

That way, the people who make the most and spend the most would be paying the most taxes and the real luxury items like exotic cars and airplanes could be taxed at a very high rate and food and other necessities could be
taxed at a very low rate.

The savings would be tremendous, just think how the bureaucracies could be downsized, how the clerical branch of our government could be downsized, the IRS could become a shell of its former self saving untold billions of
dollars every year.

Lobbyists employed by companies to try to get favorable tax breaks for them would be out of work, clearing the halls of Congress of much of the corruptive influence in Washington.

And here's the best part. If you're an illegal alien working for cash you'd have to pay taxes just like everybody else. If you were a pimp, a hooker, a crack dealer or whatever, you would have to pay your taxes every time you bought something with your ill-gotten gains.

And if you were a frugal type of person, just think about the money you could put away by Uncle Sam not getting his hands on it before you do.

Now let me tell you why Kennedy and his bleeding heart blowhards will fight to the death to keep this from every happening.

It would be much less government intrusion into your life, less government and less control over your life.

So they scream about tax breaks for the rich when all the time what they're saying is, we want to run your life from the cradle to the grave. We want you to be afraid and dependent on the government. We want to interfere in
every facet of your life. We don't want you to be able to understand the income tax code. We don't want you to have more money in your pocket. We want you to send it to us so we can keep our pork barrels full and build
bridges to nowhere.

Of course the lobbyists, tax lawyers and accounting firms would fight this tooth and nail, and let's face it folks, although there's not as many of them as there is of us, they have a lot more pull, person for person, than we do.

And that ought to make every American mad.

Pray for our troops

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

September 14, 2007