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Thursday, 04/16/2009 12:09:08 AM

Thursday, April 16, 2009 12:09:08 AM

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End the Income Tax, Abolish the IRS -

By tmartin • April 15, 2009

http://www.ronpaul.com/2009-04-15/end-the-income-tax-abolish-the-irs/

Ron Paul supports the elimination of the income tax and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). He asserts that Congress had no power to impose a direct income tax and has called for the repeal of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, which was ratified on February 3, 1913.

An income tax is the most degrading and totalitarian of all possible taxes. Its implementation wrongly suggests that the government owns the lives and labor of the citizens it is supposed to represent. Tellingly, “a heavy progressive or graduated income tax” is Plank #2 of the Communist Manifesto, which was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and first published in 1848.

To provide funding for the federal government, Ron Paul supports excise taxes, non-protectionist tariffs, massive cuts in spending.

Ron Paul discusses the income tax and the “FAIR Tax” in May 2007:

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.aspx?board_id=3626


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