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Federal Income Tax Laws Need to Be Independently and Objectively Reviewed and Changed So That We Find Some Relief.

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When it comes to the bureaucracy of federal income tax laws, the Internal Revenue Code takes the cake. 

Printed on normal copy paper at 60 lines per page, it would stretch almost a mile and a half, and weigh in at a whopping 75 lbs.

So, generally speaking, it would not be difficult for an IRS auditor to find fault with your personal or small business return and lay claim to any or all of your assets.

There are many examples of people being fined exorbitant amounts of money for miniscule underpayment of taxes.

How can the average person expect to fight a system that has such an extensive array of weapons at its disposal?

How do you expect to navigate a minefield that tax lawyers and accountants spend years studying and still don’t understand?

The most egregious aspect of this conversation is that all parts of this document are federal income tax laws! Let’s discuss how it got to be this bad.

The 16th amendment to the US Constitution was ratified an enacted on February 3, 1913. 

It reads, “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration”.

This amendment stemmed from the US Supreme Court case Pollock v. Farmer’s Loan & Trust Company.

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Illegal Taxes

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Unfair Laws and Common Misconceptions

The issue in Pollock was that income taxes were levied based on the census determination of each state’s population.

Farmer’s L&T; was a New York based bank, Charles Pollock was a Massachusetts citizen, and therefore the shares that he held were to be taxed at a different rate.

This decision opened the door for President William Howard Taft to propose an amendment to rid the federal government of the pesky census problem.

As the current status of the Internal Revenue Service shows, the wording of this amendment closed the door forever to any state’s rights argument and begat the federal income tax laws that we know today.

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Change We Need… NOW!

One can argue, and rightly so, that the 16th amendment is dubious at best, and the worst piece of political gerrymandering in our nation’s history.

The very wording of this clause gives the federal government the impetus to tax the individual as they see fit, which leads to the labyrinth of federal income tax laws that create a 7,500 page tax code.

The federal government, Democrats and Republicans alike, haven’t met a tax they don’t like.

The well publicized proof of this is that in 1898, the Treasury Department began collecting a luxury tax on telephone calls to help fund the Spanish American War, (Remember the Maine?).

It quit collecting that tax in May 2006. How can this citizenry continue to give Washington carte blanche to spend money that doesn’t belong to them?

The 16th amendment has led to social programs and massive spending that needs to be reigned in if this country is to continue to be great.

American’s need to demand that there be a bipartisan independent board to review the tax code, and eliminate wasteful programs.

If families all over this country have to live on a budget, then Washington can too, and they need to stop demanding more from the taxpayers.

In these tough economic times, we need to demand the change we were promised. Where is our change, Mr. Obama?

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