A Good Reason for FAIR TAX

I have an acquaintance that is a CPA.  Although we get along very well, I really can’t call him a friend.  The main reason is that I’m a gung-ho conservative who is dead set against the Federal Income Tax.  Conversely, he is dead set against the FAIR TAX, a national consumption tax and totally infatuated with the IRS and income tax. 

          My idea of an ideal governmental situation is no income tax, no FAIR TAX and no flat tax.  Collect taxes the same way that it was done prior to the income tax.  Our country went 130 years with no income tax and the country grew.  Now with the income tax the country is stagnating and actually going down hill economically.  Unfortunately, being realist, I know that my "ideal governmental situation" will never come to pass with out a violent revolution.  So I “lean” toward the FAIR TAX.  At least the FAIR TAX will change the way the IRS does business.  Most of the “people” that work for the IRS will have to find other ways to force the public to do the US Government’s bidding.  These “people”, called IRS agents would lose the power to financially rape and pillage the public with the help of our friendly banks and judicial system.  My acquaintance, the CPA is all for the IRS.  To him, the IRS is GOD, the ALPHA AND THE OMEGA all put together.  Let’s call my acquaintance, CJ for convenience.   When I asked CJ what was wrong with FAIR TAX, he couldn’t give me an answer.  I implied that with FAIR TAX he would lose most of his clients and a lot of his income.  He shrugged that off with the statement that people would still have to file, with or without FAIR TAX.  But he was very adamant when he said that FAIR TAX would NEVER HAPPEN!!!!  He came on as being very strong in his belief that anyone that even tried to support the FAIR TAX was wasting their time.  When I asked him specifically why he didn’t think it would ever happen regarding the FAIR TAX, his answer was simply “It won’t happen”.  No reason, no arguing points, nothing except “It won’t happen”.  I was hoping to get an intellectual debate on taxes; instead all I got was a decree.  Let’s look in at the following conversation between myself and CJ.

 CJ: Gehemish why are you so gung-ho for the FAIR TAX? 

 Geheimish: With FAIR TAX the IRS couldn’t steal our money and our property, which they do on a daily basis. 

 CJ: Well if you would file your taxes properly, you wouldn’t have to worry about the IRS. 

 Gehemish: “What is properly”????  There are over nine million words and 17,000 pages in the tax code that no one can understand.

  CJ: That’ why you don’t try to file yourself.  If you try to file your own taxes, the IRS will come after you.  Use a CPA to do your taxes.  Here was his plug.

   Geheimish: “What kind of a law is it when a person has to spend huge sums of money to obey it”?  Especially when he can’t afford it.

 CJ: Although there is no “law” that says you have to use a “professional tax accountant” to do your taxes, by not using one you invite trouble.  “You wouldn’t try to defend yourself if you were accused of committing a crime would you?  You’d go to a lawyer to protect you”.

 Geheimish: “Are you saying that if I file my own taxes, I’m committing a crime”? 

 CJ: “In the eyes of the IRS you could be, if you make a mistake on your return.  Don’t forget there is a caveat on the 1040 form that says, “Under the penalty of perjury” so if you make a mistake you could be looked at as a criminal.  That’s why people use professionals to file their taxes.

 Geheimish: What about the 5^th Amendment to the US Constitution. 

 CJ: The 5^th amendment doesn’t apply since a person is filing their 1040 on a voluntary basis.

 Geheimish: How are filing one’s taxes voluntary?  If a person doesn’t file, they end up in a Federal Prison, how is that voluntary? 

 CJ: It is a “voluntary assessment”.  You are assessing yourself.

 Geheimish: “But if the IRS doesn’t like the way a person files, the IRS tries to do a fishing expedition called an “audit” to extort additional money or property from its victim.  Filing the income tax is not voluntary!!  According to the IRS, it is required and that requirement is reinforced by duress, threats and intimidation.  In fact there is really no law that makes a person liable to file.  If there was a law, the law would not be constitutional!!!

 CJ:  There IS a law that makes everyone liable for income tax, and the law is constitutional.  The 16^th amendment gives the IRS the right to do what ever they want to collect money for the US government.

   Geheimish: “Do you realize, law or no law, the US Government has decreed that every human being has to pay a tribute to the US government just for right to live?” 

 CJ: “That is incorrect.  Everyone has to pay to tribute for the right to live in here in the US. 

So the truth came out.  We have to pay for the right to live here in the US.  The tribute is payable through a vehicle called the IRS.  There is a law that makes every person liable for the income tax, but no one knows where the law is or what the law is.  Now you know why I support the FAIR TAX!!!