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My Thoughts On ‘Tax Refund Day’
Ahhh, Tax Day. I am amazed at the brainwashing necessary to even make this day possible, but then to see the way we view Tax Day makes it even worse.
I have seen several ad campaigns referring to this day not as ‘tax payment day’, but as ‘tax REFUND day.’ That ought to be repugnant to the spirit of every Liberty-loving person in America… and every person in America ought to be Liberty-loving.
If we really thought about a federal income tax, we would be in the street with pitchforks and torches.
The income tax, within our history, was begun by a King in Great Britain named John around 1200. Just so you know what kind of man John was, they called him “vicious and ruthless.” I read one document that remarked that “even hell was fowled by the presence of John.” We are not talking about a good guy. He was historically the most evil king the Anglo-Saxons would ever know. And we have this guy to thank for income tax.
Interestingly enough, just a few weeks ago, the British chancellor announced the abolition of the annual tax return in the United Kingdom. Death to John in the UK; long live the King in the US.
Our framers would be holding real tea parties, along with mock hangings and mock funeral processions of tax collectors if they were alive today. After all, that is what they did back then in response to unconstitutional SALES taxes. I cannot imagine their outrage over income taxes assessed and collected from the people directly by the feds.
The Tax and Spend clause was to delegate a power to the feds to assess taxes to fund the activity necessary for the “limited and defined” power delegated by the Constitution. James Madison clarifies in Federalist 45:
The power delegated to the federal government by the Constitution will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected.
The feds were only delegated power associated with “external objects” (foreign affairs of the States), and that is what their power to tax was to be limited to. Healthcare, education, welfare, roads, environmental protection, etc…are NOT foreign affairs of the States; and the feds have NO business taxing us to fund them.
Additionally, taxes were NEVER to be levied by the feds directly upon the people. The Census was designed to assess the population of the State so that taxes would be apportioned to the State based upon their population. The States are the collectors of federal taxes. This was an important check and balance on federal power. Keeping the States in control of the purse strings meant that the feds would never be able to collect money to exercise a power that was reserved to the States. So much for Original Intent. Perhaps that’s why all the federal supremacists love the “living breathing” Constitution; it allows for federal income tax, federal welfare, and the operation of a socialist republic.
So once again, just a little bit of truth and just a little bit of history and we can see how tyrannical of a government we actually have. Just wondering when we will pull the stop-chain on the train of abuses?
This post originally appeared on Western Journalism – Equipping You With The Truth
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/my-thoughts-on-tax-refund-day/
