Tag: Taxes

  • TAXES

    TAXES

    The Constitution, in Article I, Section 8, gives Congress the power: 

    “To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States.” 

    In Article I, Section 9, the original document made clear that: 

    “No Capitation, or other direct Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census of Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.” 

    It is moreover established that: 

    “No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.” 

    Since 1913, our Constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property have been abridged and diminished by the imposition on each of us of Federal income, payroll, and estate taxes. This is an unconstitutional Federal assumption of direct taxing authority.

    The Internal Revenue Service is the enforcement arm of the Federal government’s present unjust tax system. Citizens, both in groups and as individuals, have repeatedly sought responses from the IRS bureaucracy as to the basis for the agency’s tax policies and procedures. No answers have been forthcoming, although a responsible government must be answerable to the people and has a duty to those it is supposed to serve.

    We propose legislation to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and will veto any authorization, appropriation, or continuing resolution that contains any funding whatsoever for that illicit and unconstitutional agency. 

    We are opposed to the flat-rate tax, national sales tax, and value-added tax proposals that are being promoted as an improvement to the current tax system. 

    The Sixteenth Amendment does not provide authority for an unapportioned direct tax. 

    The Constitution Party intends to replace the current tax system of the U.S. government (including income taxes, payroll taxes, and estate taxes) with a tariff-based revenue system supplemented by excise taxes.

    THE STATE-RATE TAX PROPOSAL

    To the degree that tariffs on foreign products, and excises, are insufficient to cover the legitimate Constitutional costs of the federal government, we will offer an apportioned “state-rate tax” in which the responsibility for covering the cost of unmet obligations will be divided among the several states in accordance with their proportion of the total population of the United States, excluding the District of Columbia. 

    If a state contains 10 percent of the nation’s citizens, it will be responsible for assuming payment of 10 percent of the annual deficit. The effect of this “state-rate tax” will be to encourage politicians to argue for less rather than more federal spending and less state spending as well. 

    CORPORATE TAX

    To the extent permitted by the Constitution, we believe that the taxation of corporations is an appropriate source of government revenue. 

    The Supreme Court has defined “income” as a “gain or increase arising from corporate activity or privilege.” People are not corporations, and corporations need not be treated as “people” for the purposes of taxation.

    THE INCOME TAX AMENDMENT

    There is substantial evidence that the Sixteenth Amendment was never legally ratified. When elected, we will act to cease the collection of direct Federal personal income taxes. 

    We support ratification of the Liberty Amendment, which would repeal the Sixteenth Amendment and provide that “Congress shall not levy taxes on personal incomes, estates, and/or gifts.” 

    EXCISE TAXES

    We support the use of motor fuel excise taxes, at rates not in excess of those currently imposed, to be used exclusively for the erection, maintenance, and administration of Federal highways. These taxes should never be used for “demonstration projects”, mass transit or for other non-highway purposes. 

    We support the use of excise taxes to curb the use of tax dollars for media advertising, and to provide so called “tax abatements”, “tax incentives” and “economic development grants,” which are pretexts to raid the public treasury and rob the workingman for the benefit of wealthy interests favored by the politicians.

  • What Did The Founding Fathers See That We See Today?

    What Did The Founding Fathers See That We See Today?


    “Those who own the country ought to govern it.”

    John Jay

    The American Revolution and Second Class Citizens.

    Up to the French and Indian War, the colonists were largely in support of their mother country and the laws and taxes the British imposed. They understood that the taxes and duties put upon them were to support the defense of the American colonies from attacks by the French and their allies. They willingly fed and supplied the soldiers that were here to defend them.

    However, after the war ended, the soldiers remained and taxes increased. Colonists petitions for redress from the oppressive taxes and continued occupation of the British army went unheeded. In fact, every time the British eased one tax, they would double down with more additional taxes and they added insult to injury by using the British military to enforce tax collection.

    The distance and the delay in communications, along with the fact that they had no representation in Parliament, made it difficult for colonists to make themselves heard. The colonists recognized that they were being treated as second class citizens without the rights of those subjects who resided in England. The British also began to take away their local representation by disbanding the legislatures in multiple colonies.

    Recognizing that they were being disrespected and being used to fund the British Empire disproportionately, they began to boycott the taxes. They used smuggling and black markets to supply their needs and boycotted British goods that had protectionist tariffs attached. They ran tax collectors out of town and formed extralegal governments.

    When the British began efforts to disarm the colonists and brought in mercenaries to quell the “rebellion,” the colonists knew there could be no possible reconciliation with the homeland. It was independence or slavery.

    We have a government that has taxed us far more aggressively and with far more abusive taxes than the founders ever did, and yet many simply bow down and submit. We have had arms taken from us and our access to arms restricted, yet many are not alarmed.

    Many are choosing slavery over their God-given, natural rights!

    Will you choose to resist and join us now?

    The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

    Thomas Jefferson

    Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

    Patrick Henry

    “Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”

    George Washington