I heard someone a few years ago propose a national sales tax rather than an income tax. At the time I really liked the idea. The whole point of it was to cut crass consumerism and our spendthrift lifestyle and encourage people to save an invest more. Needless to say, the guy hasn’t been heard from since. Since then I’ve had people tell me that that idea would kill the economy and somehow make foreign made goods more attractive—but I don’t buy the latter argument. Another argument was that it would make the cost of living go up for the poor, and make it harder for them to survive, and that is a much better counter-argument, but one we could still overcome by not taxing things you need to live, like food, clothes and school supplies.

One of the other aspects I liked about the plan, other than encouraging investments and savings is that the collection process would be much more efficient than the monstrousity the income tax system is, along with the regalia of the IRS, tax preparation companies you have to pay off, audits, and all that crap, all of which are prone to inefficiencies, corruption and abuse.

One tax I utterly despise is the property tax. Basically I think this is a way for others to extort you off your property if they want it by increasing the value of the land adjacent to you until you can no longer pay. Then again, that’s also the whole idea behind imminent domain laws, only they are quicker.

I submit for your perusal a video that goes in depth on the tax code and how the only thing defined as taxable income are transactions between US companies and foreign citizens or US citizens and foreign companies.

A National Income tax is unconstitutional anyways as direct taxes have to be apportioned, which is to say divided up between the states based on their population. Some say the text of Amendment 16 grants the Federal Government the right to apportion a direct tax that is not apportioned, but the Supreme Court decided in 1916 during the Stanton v. Baltic Mining, 240 U.S. 103 case that Amendment 16 conferred no new power of taxation.

So there it is for you folks, the federal income tax that we all love to pay is not only not required by the tax code, but unconstitutional.