The Anti-Tax guys won -- round 2

 I've done some more digging around, and it looks like there might actually
be something to all this anti-income tax business.    This link is to a
video (almost 2 hours long) that I found quite curious.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...80303867390173


But then, I found this site:
http://evans-legal.com/dan/tpfaq.html#income
which seems to answer many of the issues raised by the video.  But then, I'm
no lawyer, so maybe it does, maybe it doesn't . . . I dunno . . .


What do y'all think about this?  I can't tell if the anti-tax guys are
crackpots or not, or if the IRS is the Great Satan.

 
Mull this over. What would happen if--legal or not--everyone suddenly quit
paying income tax?

 wrote:


Our poor congressmen could no longer afford to build multimilloin
dollar bridges to empty islands in Alaska?  :-)


Dennis (evil)
--
What government gives, it must first take away.

 

Well, a lot of stuff would have to be paid for by each individual state,
like highway construction, and social services, etc.  It's not like the
federal government would suddenly go bankrupt; I'm sure they have lots of
other sources of income.

 
According to the nonpartisan, nonprofit Urban Institute, about 80 percent of
the federal government's revenue comes from individual income and payroll
taxes. Of the other 20 percent, about 2/3 comes from corporate income tax.
So, yeah, it *is* like the federal government would suddenly go bankrupt.

So, no big deal, you say, other than we wouldn't be paying for a bunch of
fraud, waste and pointless "wars on terror" like we are now?
Consider--according to the same source--that some 60 percent of federal
outlays go for entitlements like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid,
plus other contractual obligations and interest. You think all the people
receiving benefits would just shrug, suck it up, and manage somehow?

Of course we could shift some of these programs to the states--but the money
for them would still have to come from somewhere. The point of my post was
that suddenly doing away with the federal income tax, regardless of
legality, simply isn't practical. And if you think it's ever going to
happen--at least on some kind of legal ground--you probably believe in the
Tooth Fairy's going to come to your house tomorrow night and leave you a
basket of Easter eggs, too.