How else do we get taxes though? Believe me, I'm all for reform, but who is going to pay for things like national defense? Libertarians want to gut the military even more than the Democrats. How is President Trump going to enact revenge if we hamstring all the government departments that are going to help him?
For the first approximately 80 yrs, except for a brief period during the Civil War, the US survived on tariffs Even in the 1920's, only 2% of the US expenditures came from income tax. From 1868 until 1913, 90 percent of all revenue came from taxes on liquor, beer, wine and tobacco.
Enter the Depression and FDR, with the Fed's blessing, throwing money around like only a Democrat can. He and the politicians rubbing their grubby hands together once they realized they could steal money from US citizens and call it "income tax".
Not to mention these days, Federal employment is insane. There are 3 million Federal employees earning an avg. of $100,000/year.
3000000 x $100000 = 300 BILLION DOLLAR A YEAR
Praying POTUS will drastically cut the number of employees once he is reelected.
The income tax came in well before FDR, when the Republicans were in charge because the federal government couldn't function on taxes on alcohol and tobbaco. The expansion of the federal government led to the greatest economic surge this country has ever seen. We couldn't have fought WW2 without it. And where will these job cuts come from? Even if you wiped out the entire Department of Justice, that would only be about 3% of the federal work force. The largest federal government departments are the DoD (37%) and the VA (11%). It would be hard to make cuts without basically destroying the military and screwing over veterans. How would we pay for all those? And why should a bunch of California billionaires get all their money tax-free?
IRS nullified. Yes pls
How else do we get taxes though? Believe me, I'm all for reform, but who is going to pay for things like national defense? Libertarians want to gut the military even more than the Democrats. How is President Trump going to enact revenge if we hamstring all the government departments that are going to help him?
For the first approximately 80 yrs, except for a brief period during the Civil War, the US survived on tariffs Even in the 1920's, only 2% of the US expenditures came from income tax. From 1868 until 1913, 90 percent of all revenue came from taxes on liquor, beer, wine and tobacco.
Enter the Depression and FDR, with the Fed's blessing, throwing money around like only a Democrat can. He and the politicians rubbing their grubby hands together once they realized they could steal money from US citizens and call it "income tax".
Not to mention these days, Federal employment is insane. There are 3 million Federal employees earning an avg. of $100,000/year. 3000000 x $100000 = 300 BILLION DOLLAR A YEAR Praying POTUS will drastically cut the number of employees once he is reelected.
The income tax came in well before FDR, when the Republicans were in charge because the federal government couldn't function on taxes on alcohol and tobbaco. The expansion of the federal government led to the greatest economic surge this country has ever seen. We couldn't have fought WW2 without it. And where will these job cuts come from? Even if you wiped out the entire Department of Justice, that would only be about 3% of the federal work force. The largest federal government departments are the DoD (37%) and the VA (11%). It would be hard to make cuts without basically destroying the military and screwing over veterans. How would we pay for all those? And why should a bunch of California billionaires get all their money tax-free?