The Fairest Tax
There has been a controversy about taxes and who should pay their fair share. The favorite saying of the progressive/socialist left is ‘the rich aren’t paying their fair share.’ I don’t think it is the rich that are holding back. This year the federal government will spend $2,000,000,000,000, which is two trillion dollars. For the sake of simplification, that breaks down to approximately $7,000 for every man, woman and child in America. Are you paying your fair share? Being a citizen of this country, we are guaranteed a few things by the federal government. These are in the United States Constitution in Article. IV [Section 4.] The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion… That is it. Nowhere in the constitution are the words education, health, housing, energy or even the word democracy. The United States government guarantees these same protections to every citizen, no more, no less. Why should those who take the initiative to work hard and take risks to realize the blessings of liberty be expected to pay more than someone who chooses not to. After all, everyone receives the same guarantees. Our equal fair share would be reduced to $1,725 for everyone if we only pay for national defense. This would be a savings of $5,275 for every citizen of the United States. Imagine what a family of four could do with an extra $21,100 a year. If we were all paying our truly fair share then we could honestly decide if we wanted to pay for entitlements because everyone would be responsible for their fair share. As it now stands, some people want entitlements as long as someone else is footing the bill. If we expect the wealthy to pay their fair share then we should first abolish the immoral income tax designed to examine every aspect of our lives and then implement a national sales tax. This way the more one spends, the more tax that person pays. The rich would pay their fair shre. Our Founding Fathers made it clear what they thought the federal government ought to be responsible for. The Constitution opens with these words: ‘We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.’ Maybe it is way past time to throw off the shackles of the bloated, bureaucratic, expensive federal government and start exercising the tenth amendment. Tom Buchanan
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