"The Ultimate Impossibility of Tax Reform!"
from - The Parallax Prophecies -
By Ron Ewart, President
National Association of Rural Landowners
and nationally recognized author on freedom and property rights issues.
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"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow." James Madison, Federalist No. 62, February 27, 1788
Today, according to the U. S. Government Printing Office, Title 26 of the U. S. Code of Federal Regulations(the part written by the IRS) is 13,458 pages. When you add the part written by Congress, the grand total comes to 16,845 pages. Let's just say that there are 1,000 words to each page, that produces a word count of 16,845,000 words to govern the taxing of income in the United States. (NOTE: There are 783,000 words in the bible) In contrast, the Revenue Act of 1913, which established the Income Tax as the principal debt collector for the loans to the government from the Federal Reserve, was a few pages and the bottom tax rate (no deductions) was 1% over an income threshold of $3,000 and the top rate was 7% over income of $500,000. It was the first introduction of the progressive income tax where large wage earners would be charged a higher rate than lower wage earners, in direct violation of the equal protection clause of the U. S. Constitution. (we have covered this unconstitutional inequity in previous articles)
