What is the real reason for the income tax system?

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It was suppose to be for keeping the government and country running. But it is now used for political control. There is to much special interest on both sides....Show more

Unfortunately Lincoln didn't free the slaves, he just transferred ownership to the Federal government. Essentially, if you study history, you will discover that the Constitution had to be amended to allow for an income tax. The reason is pretty simple. The Founding Fathers were all too familiar with a feudal system where the land and people were owned by nobility. They strove within the Constitution to prevent this from happening again.

Under feudalism the serf as well as lesser nobels were property of the King or Duke or whatever the ruling regent was. In England, except in time of war, the King was limited to taking only half of what serfs produced. The other half of their labor they got to keep.

Part of the Robin Hood story was that Robin Hood wasn't taking from the rich to give to the poor, but rather he was taking back taxes taken from the serfs and giving it back to them. There is a distinct difference.

So, today, with an income tax, under the obama plan the total tax would be over the 50% of the English serf. We are again owned by the governor of the land. But obama is more likened to Prince John or the Sherriff of Nottingham, than Robin Hood. obama would be the taxer, not the one giving the money back to the workers who produced it.

In essence, an income tax amounts to no less than slavery. Benevolent or not. It still means you do not get to keep the fruits of your labor. You are not taxed based on usage, but rather productivity....Show more

It is supposed to collect tax from the citizens and business to run our government (but that is really a contradiction of what has and is happening). No I don't think it works the way it was intended, but we can't fix that unless we demand that our representatives and Senators fix it with a flat tax and/ or a national sales tax as some have touted. It really doesn't matter who takes the blame for what has happened, it must be fixed and done so on a permanent basis. The president has little control over federal income taxation unless he is supported by the Congress. Pretty lame if one looks at it over time....Show more

According to Ronald Reagan, every dime of our income tax goes to pay the national debt. What is the national debt, you ask ? Every penny the US government spends is borrowed from the Federal Reserve (the privately-held, government-chartered national bank of the US), and must be paid back with interest. The income tax we pay winds up in the pockets of bankers, much like those whom we just bailed out.


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Of course.

Our government on all levels is trying to get as much money out of us as they can, and it's unfortunate for all of us that the voters keep reelecting the same clowns on all levels that squander our money.

Our government is too large, bloated and powerful. We need to have limits to the amount of money that they can extort from us.

Some individuals' property taxes alone go up 400% in one year! No wonder we have a mortgage crisis---it's not people buying houses that they can't afford, taxes are at confiscatory levels, prices on everything have skyrocketed. We have a GOVERNMENT that we can't afford any longer.

The current administration is trying to give billions to Haliburton, Wall Street fatcats and their other cronies, all at the taxpayers' expense.

The government doesn't care about the average American citizen except as a bottomless source of money for them to squander.

And the voters keep reelecting the same thieves....Show more