I
try to keep this blog original; the content and the style are not fare you will
get elsewhere, thus I don’t do the clickbait ploys of daily quotations and
links. That said, hat-tip Café Hayek, the
below two links flow directly from one of my major themes.
Firstly,
Richard Rahn writing for
the Washington Times on why the IRS must be abolished (for same reason as
every Western proxy secret police force masquerading as Revenue must be
abolished): quoting from how the current tax system damages both the economy
and, what the Left refuse to grok, civil liberties:
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen has said the government must have
an IRS to collect the taxes to fund the government. Mr. Koskinen is right that no matter what kind of
tax system we have, there needs to be a tax collection bureau. But those in
favor of abolishing the present IRS are correct in that the United States
certainly can get along perfectly well without the politicized, abusive and
rights-trampling tax agency the IRS has become.
Mr. Koskinen and others who defend the IRS claim the problem is with the tax law, which
is written by Congress. A tax system ought to be designed to obtain the
necessary revenue with the least amount of damage to the economy and the civil
liberties of the citizens. The present tax system gets a failing grade on both
accounts. Promising special provisions to those who will provide campaign funds
is a temptation that some politicians seem not to be able to resist. A simple
flat tax or consumption tax would take care of many problems.
That said, there is still no excuse for much of what the IRS does ...
[Snip.]
If the folks at the IRS want respect, then they need to start
treating hardworking taxpayers with respect and understanding and not as
government-owned slaves.
Secondly,
a nice piece by George Leef on how regressive progressive envy taxation is;
this being the economic argument (not forgetting the more important philosophic
argument of how the tax surveillance state is built on the total destruction of
privacy and what should have been our sacred right to be left alone by the
state if harming no one). From What
LeBron Can Teach You About Economics, quoting the relevant section:
On taxation, the conventional wisdom is that high taxes on businesses
are necessary to make them pay “their fair share.” Most people also believe
that the money extracted from them goes to the government where it is spent
“for the public good.”
In his first chapter, Tamny argues that taxes are merely “a price placed on work” by the government. To
demonstrate how, he doesn’t start with an economist or a chart, but instead
with Keith Richards, the lead guitarist of the Rolling Stones. Richards
explained that the band decided to leave England because of the high taxes: “We
didn’t know if we would make it, but if we didn’t try, what would we do? Sit in
England and they’d give us a penny out of every pound we earned.”
Progressive taxes (in England,
the United States, and everywhere) are more of an impediment to people who are
trying to become wealthy than to those who are already wealthy.
And what happens with all the money the government rakes in? Largely, it
is squandered by politicians who want to buy popularity. Rock musicians make wiser
use of money — the money they’ve earned — than do politicians who dip into the
vast pot of tax dollars taken by force.
Referring
to the first sentence, I have my own post on the abused use of that word ‘fair’,
when related to the tax take: Taxing
Language: A Question for the Politicians – Fair: What Do You Mean?
My
next post will be regarding my increasing frustration and anger at the statist
nonsense and worse, falsehoods, being peddled by identity politics feminism regarding the gender pay gap in New Zealand – identity/Marxist feminism as opposed to my own classical liberal
individualistic (that is, non-bigoted) freedom advocacy feminism. Marxist feminism has turned from deconstructing our universities into safe places worshipping the power of big sister government with mindless, fist punching, chanting state servitude, and has become one of the major forces of
a rampant statism ... read my next post.
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