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Abolish the IRS (and the Income Tax With It)
May 19, 2013 11:34:09   #
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http://reason.com/archives/2013/05/19/abolish-the-irs-and-the-income-tax-with

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May 20, 2013 13:48:39   #
straightUp Loc: California
 
I agree with abolishing income tax specifically, but not tax in general. I can’t fathom the depth of stupidity that’s required for someone to think we can just abolish taxes entirely. If you don’t have taxes, you don’t have a government. It really is simple as that. The article states that Americans lived without income tax for 125 years. This is true but they NEVER lived without ANY tax, they still had sales tax and they still had property tax and because of these things they also had a government. The only other way to fund a government is to borrow money, but then you wind up with a national debt that you still have to eventually pay off and the only way to do that is… tax. There’s just no way to get around this.

I suppose we could get rid of the IRS specifically, if we are willing to dismantle the Federal Government in particular, leaving the 50 states on their own, but that would force many of the states to increase their respective taxes to make up for the discontinued federal subsidies they get now.

Does anyone else see this? Am I just missing something?

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