tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534859Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:40:24 +0000Truth in taxation means fairness by consumption levy and the downsizing the federal budget by half. Honest money and abolishing fractional reserve banking will restore the economy.http://batr.net/taxtyranny/noreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)Blogger548125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534859.post-114898862508359534Tue, 30 May 2006 11:29:00 +00002006-05-30T07:30:25.106-04:00Can you really, as you may have heard, avoid income taxes by placing yourassets in a “pure trust,” “equity trust” or “constitutional trust”? Unfortunately, the answer is “no.” In recent years, the IRS has repeatedly fought these in court and won rulings against the use of these as legitimate tax-planning vehicles. Now another tax reform advocate, who was involved in trusts, has fallen victim to http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/05/irs-targets-estate-planning-by-john.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534859.post-114709280312763128Mon, 08 May 2006 12:52:00 +00002006-05-08T08:53:23.146-04:00Sen. Charles Grassley last Tuesday cavalierly rejected a summons to meet in the Oval Office with George W. Bush about tax legislation. Grassley, Senate Finance Committee chairman, said he could not make it because of visiting constituents from back home in Iowa. The real reason is that Grassley is playing his own game on tax legislation without interference from anybody, even the president.http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/05/phantom-tax-bill-by-robert-novak.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534859.post-114673802020717275Thu, 04 May 2006 10:19:00 +00002006-05-04T06:20:20.226-04:00The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to levy what likely will amount to wiretapping taxes on companies, municipalities and universities, saying it would create an incentive for them to keep costs down and that it was necessary to fight the war on terror. Universities have estimated their cost to be about $7 billion.http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/05/fcc-approves-net-wiretapping-taxes-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534859.post-114661467539191699Wed, 03 May 2006 00:04:00 +00002006-05-02T20:04:35.410-04:00Governments and those who love them have an excellent talent for using language to disguise the true nature of taxes. Somewhere along the line, it became possible to refer to taxes and tax increases as "investments" without being mocked, and to refer quite seriously to slight decreases in the rate of growth in government spending as "spending cuts." Another strategy in tax deception is to refer http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/05/tax-breaks-and-governments-who-hate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534859.post-114649980715003096Mon, 01 May 2006 16:09:00 +00002006-05-01T15:03:46.563-04:00A day without illegal aliens would be a boon to U.S. taxpayers who wouldn’t pay for the tremendous social service costs of persons not legally in our country. On May 1, illegal alien activists are threatening to shut down major cities in what has been called “The Great American Boycott” and, alternatively, “A Day Without an Immigrant.”http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/05/day-without-illegal-aliens-is-boon-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534859.post-114624118647700179Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:18:00 +00002006-04-28T12:19:46.520-04:00Axing about 18 cents from the price of gas would provide some relief for Americans struggling to afford filling their tanks.The House and Senate should repeal the billions of dollars in tax breaks and subsidies it gave oil companies and other nonrenewable energy companies last year, along with other tax breaks the oil industry gets. Even Bush said Tuesday it's time Congress repealed some of thesehttp://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/federal-tax-on-gas-should-be-shelved.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534859.post-114605220692934993Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:49:00 +00002006-04-26T07:50:06.956-04:00Every April, the non-partisan Tax Foundation releases a report that calculates how many days of the year Americans must work to pay local, state and federal taxes. The day when Americans will have earned enough income to pay their total tax bill for the year is named "Tax Freedom Day."http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/taxpayers-lose-three-more-days-to-big.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534859.post-114590116713509043Mon, 24 Apr 2006 17:52:00 +00002006-04-24T13:52:47.153-04:00A provision attached to the Budget Reconciliation Bill (H.R. 4297) being debated in Congress would make it harder for U.S. oil producers to compete in the global marketplace. It's not the windfall profits tax -- a large bipartisan majority in both the House and Senate defeated that misguided attempt to "punish" oil companies for price increases brought about by high global demand and shrinking http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/potential-tax-impact-at-gas-pump-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534859.post-114553366528017078Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:47:00 +00002006-04-20T07:47:45.296-04:00The additional 16.7 million people that would be subjected to the AMT this year includes some couples with two or more children and incomes as low as $67,890. But families making low six figure incomes will be especially rocked by the tax. "In tax year 2005," Carroll testified, "about 13% of taxpayers with incomes between $100,000 and $200,000 will be subject to the AMT. But, when taxpayers file http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/anti-family-tax-by-terence-p-jeffrey.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534859.post-114543603012144938Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:39:00 +00002006-04-19T04:40:30.136-04:00Why should government cost us more than shelter? Political scientist James L. Payne examined the record of 14 congressional appropriations hearings and found that of 1,060 witnesses who testified, only seven spoke against spending money, while more than a thousand testified that the spending -- whatever it was -- was necessary. Even a politician who believes in limited government has a tough timehttp://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/your-tax-burden-is-bigger-than-tax-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534859.post-114535887707930236Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:14:00 +00002006-04-18T07:14:37.080-04:00Tax bills enacted over the past five years have reduced the tax-bite for millions of Americans, but they’ve also make the tax code more mind-bogglingly complex than ever. A recent Cato Institute study found that the number of pages of federal tax rules leapt from 26,300 in 1984 to 40,500 in 1995 to a staggering 66,498 in 2006. That’s 50 times the length of the King James Bible, and about 150 http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/get-serious-about-tax-reform-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534859.post-114535878088341405Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:12:00 +00002006-04-18T07:13:00.893-04:00“American people have consistently shown they don’t want their taxes raised,” said host Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform. But he added that “we have a less stupid government than many other people.” Brian Riedl of the Heritage Foundation said in one year the government spends $23,760 per household and this is just the tip of the iceberg. He said programs like Social Securityhttp://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/at-tax-day-rally-conservatives-want.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534859.post-114528997373505867Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:05:00 +00002006-04-17T12:06:13.746-04:00The cost of the tax code essentially amounts to $125 billion in investment capital we do not have for the U.S. economy or for our education system (or for any other purpose you can think of). Unless Congress acts, over the next eight years, tax complexity will waste around $1 trillion.http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/its-time-to-scrap-tax-code-and-save.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534859.post-114518884399597992Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:00:00 +00002006-04-16T08:00:44.016-04:00No modern revolution was deeper rooted in taxation than the revolt of the Thirteen Colonies in British North America. British taxation not only caused the revolution, but perhaps most important, it acted as a unifying force in the colonies. The once disorganized and squabbling colonies rallied around the cause of taxation without consent, took up arms against the British, and finally formed the http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/rocky-road-of-american-taxation-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534859.post-114496673308924370Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:18:00 +00002006-04-13T18:18:53.090-04:00The key to ending this stranglehold the federal government has over state government and citizens is to cut off its source of power. The debate should not be focused on whether or not the “rich” or the “middle class” get a cut, but whether we should have a federal income tax at all.http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/income-taxes-should-be-left-up-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534859.post-114496661107426296Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:16:00 +00002006-04-13T18:16:51.086-04:00Indeed, a positive way to look at the current mess is to see that tax reform is a huge opportunity to boost economic growth in this country. Instead of creating new government handouts to help struggling American businesses, Congress needs simply to free our economy from the wasteful cost of the tax code. The goal should be a tax code that is simple, fair, honest, and flat. The average American http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/on-tax-day-125-billion-in-waste-by_13.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534859.post-114488285441604641Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:00:00 +00002006-04-12T19:00:54.416-04:00Republican lawmakers have abandoned their attempt to push through a $70 billion tax cut package after House and Senate negotiators failed to reach agreement on the provisions of the bill ahead of the April Congressional recess.The postponement of the talks means that lawmakers will not be in a position to approve important provisions such as extending the capital gains and dividend tax cuts for http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/us-lawmakers-abandon-tax-cut.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534859.post-114488272293959912Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:58:00 +00002006-04-12T18:58:42.940-04:00It’s April 15: national lawbreaker day. Everyone could be a criminal on tax day because of the sheer size and complexity of the federal tax code. At more than 9 million words and growing, the tax code is a leviathan of potholes, pitfalls and disasters waiting to happen. Special interests have long fed at the tax code trough, getting clever exclusions and deductions added to the code while you http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/on-tax-day-125-billion-in-waste-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534859.post-114488263114867956Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:56:00 +00002006-04-12T18:57:11.160-04:00Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) Economist and Senior Research Fellow Dr. Lawrence A. Hunter released the following statement: "Treasury Secretary John Snow finally admitted to the Congress what every American taxpayer has known for years: the Internal Revenue Code is incomprehensible and unintelligible even to the experts who prepare the tax returns, enforce the law and collect the taxes.http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/secretary-snow-admits-us-tax-code-is.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534859.post-114475533969696632Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:35:00 +00002006-04-11T07:35:39.713-04:00It seems little has changed over the past year. In Washington, it's dirty business as usual. The 2005 Appropriations Bill was stock full of one outrageous earmark after another. Unfortunately, the 2006 Transportation Bill (H.R. 3058) bears a striking resemblance to its 2005 counterpart, doling out $5,888,000 for Joplin, Missouri's very own "Bridge to Nowhere."http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/59-million-for-bridge-to-nowhere-in-mo.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534859.post-114475393132885832Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:11:00 +00002006-04-11T07:12:11.343-04:00April 15th, our national tax day, comes this year just as Congress prepares to pass the 2007 federal budget. If you think paying taxes was painful this year, I’ve got some bad news: the new budget is a grotesque illustration of everything wrong with the federal government. At $2.7 trillion, it’s the largest budget in U.S. history by a long shot. Like it or not, the pressure to raise your taxes http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/cough-up-by-ron-paul.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534859.post-114469617636205245Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:09:00 +00002006-04-10T15:09:36.363-04:00Last month, the agency, without a lot of attention, proposed rules that allow tax return information to be shared or sold for one year with any third party, including marketing firms and other data brokers, if the taxpayer consents.http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/selling-of-tax-info-too-prone-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534859.post-114469604730218863Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:06:00 +00002006-04-10T15:07:27.323-04:00The Fair Tax will also make it possible for people to quickly determine when taxes have been increased. Revenue-increasing bills can no longer be hidden; if the tax goes up, you will see it plainly on your receipt.Sales taxes as the primary source of revenue is not new. Several states do not now have an income tax. The majority have both a sales tax and an income tax. Since states already levy http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/tax-time-looms-so-time-for-change-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534859.post-114469583433464253Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:01:00 +00002006-04-10T15:03:54.346-04:00The larger political obstacle is that people don't want to surrender the concrete tax breaks of a complex system for the abstract advantages of a simpler system. Those advantages are diffuse and deferred; they go mainly to the nation as a whole. Meanwhile, tax breaks are identifiable and immediate; they go mainly to individuals. Suppose the mortgage-interest deduction causes people to overinvest http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/guardians-of-complexity-by-robert-j.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534859.post-114441786033824927Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:49:00 +00002006-04-07T09:51:00.340-04:00These advantages of tax reform have inspired a flat tax revolution in Central and Eastern Europe. Nine countries including Russia have enacted income taxes with low, flat rates and few special breaks. Our turn at tax reform should be next - Congress should end the micromanaging of society through the tax code and adopt a flat tax system that treats Americans with fairness and equality.http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/simple-tax-life-rates-down-complexity.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (SARTRE)0