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Thomas D asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 10 years ago

When did the tax system's main purpose?

change from a way to fund government to a way to social engineer society and redistribute wealth?

Update:

@Lawgirl: Actually entitlement programs are the main driver of our budget. Please tell me you do not vote.

Update 2:

@Sound_of: Crony capitalism at it's best, welcome to modern America.

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  • 10 years ago
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    Probably officially during FDR's reign. Accompanied by a lying left wing media whom no doubt started by being infiltrated by the left. After all, its basic communist and socialist ideology. The one whom controls the media, controls the people.

    After all, the typical left wing moron has no real sense of history and haven't studied it enough to learn anything past what they want to know. Ignorance is bliss to them.

    Otherwise how would they go about explaining the expansion of the unemployment benefits to non-producers when it is PROVEN that extending them removes motivation ?

    How would they explain the pushing of 'green' initaitvies and interfering with the private sector by the government when they should have nothing to do with it ?

    Agenda'd programs that are wasting our tax money left and right for social hand out programs.

    No, anyone that doesn't see all these changes in the past decades is either a fool or a brainwashed leftist.

  • 5 years ago

    A inventive taxation equipment is a socialism spawned concept that has manifested in modern-day American politics by using left wing politicians. inventive taxation is a variety that seems good on paper yet continuously fails at it is objective in society and drives economy down. inventive taxaton crosses the barrier into finished blown socialism whilst purposful inventive taxation is comprehensive to generate capital no longer for Federal desires yet to grant centers, money and substances to much less fortunate or needy human beings. it is federally mandated charity in fact. the undertaking to me isn't the inventive taxation, it is the heavy exceeded taxation it is being imposed on agencies which would be hobbled by using 50% tax rates on sales in an economy it is suffering. Socialism performs a evaluate u.s.. FDR pushed it into u.s. interior the early 30's in the process the early element of the melancholy whilst it were pointed out as a "recession" FDR's inventive taxation procedures and government instituted wellfare (that's a socialist concept) drove the corporation sector into an entire blown deep 8 year long melancholy. And seeing a similar issues (very almost to a T) i do no longer % u.s. to make the genuine same mistake. we would desire to apply history as a handbook and we are stumbling into the genuine same mistake we made interior the 30's by using ushering in a tax and spend democrat with heavy exceeded tax techniques which fee individuals painfully.

  • 10 years ago

    In 1913 with the passage of the XVI and XVII amendments. Wilson was president, a Southern Democrat who was a product of the German educational system. John Hopkins was the first university in the US formed on that model. He was a "Progressive", i.e. Government should be in control. He was a racist. As President, (a Democrat) he resegregated civil service and he fired all Black civil servant managers because "...whites should not take orders from ******..." He even resegregated the city of Washington,

    He advocated for the FDR and Income tax, which he said would never be over 7% on any persons. He disliked the design of the Senate as created by the Founding Fathers, so he rushed in XVII for direct corrupt elections of the Senate instead of having the State Legislature appoint the Senators --- The original system made the Senator represent the State from where they lived not some lofty political philosophy with money coming in from outstate and out country.

    He was for the XVIII (Prohibition). He took the US into WW I and he made a fool of himself in Paris with his notion of a League of Nations debating Society.

  • It is neither. It is a way to pay the interest to the private Federal Reserve Bank. Government doesnt take in enough in taxes to pay for all their spending. They get accommodated by the Fed and the taxes we pay which we make think go to social engineering or redistributing the wealth doesnt. It goes directly into the hands of private bankers. This is the reason both the income tax and Federal Reserve act were rushed through just before Christmas break back in 1913...............

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  • 10 years ago

    It didn't. Now that a democrat is president suddenly income tax is redistribution of wealth? Do you know that entitlement programs are a small part of the federal budget?

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    After lobbyists efforts put 90% of Ameicas wealth in the hands of 10% of the population.

  • Sean
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Sound of Silenced 3 is right, income taxes pay for the interest government owes the Fed.

    You're probably looking for regulations, regulations take trillions out of the economy.

  • Sarah
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    The main purpose is still to fund the government.....largely our military industrial complex.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    im going to say it started with FDR, and ended with LBJ.

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