"One of the important results on an income tax will be a curbing of unnecessary federal expenditures. When a great part of a government's is derived by direct tax upon the citizens of the nation, they will scrutinize more carefully the appropriations made by congress."
To which of course the only appropriate response is lol or perhaps a rofl. Now I don't believe that Hull actually spoke such absurd words actually meaning them; I'm sure he was giving his best Billy Mays to the public trying to push ratification. Apparently he did a good job making people think giving a government more power as a means to curtail power is a good idea. Given America's mental dependence on the federal income tax as a sacrosanct, eternal fixture of our law, it seems the idea really took.
Of course the amendment was a long time coming after the tax's first "necessary" establishment during the Civil War, but still that idea that all but 6 of the then 48 states voted for ratification a mere 137 years after the revolution amazes me.
What bothers me the most is how anyone who attempts to bring the morality or necessity of the federal income tax into public debate is automatically labeled a nutcase and instantly discredited. How did we come so far?
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If you meant me at any point by your title, you might be surprised to hear I agree completely with you.
It was more aimed at eric, but I am surprised with your position.
I only want regulations and rules in place that prevent people to repeat mistakes and ignorantly damage the environment, ruining it for everyone.
I don't see how anyone could get angry about someone essentially saying "income tax is a bad idea." You failed to extrapolate to the "all sales tax" methodology that I might have taken issue with.
I just see it as a necessary evil... you're calling it evil... we don't disagree. l2pissmeoff, noob.
Also, roflmao at the quote. When you speak with authority and good diction, anything sounds logical.
I remember you always arguing in favor of a progressive income tax instead of a flat one. Which I took to mean you supported an income tax, since you were arguing in favor of one.
Nah, that's a different debate. I'm in favor of a progressive income tax versus a flat tax, I'm in favor of an income tax versus an all-sales tax system, and I'm in favor of taxation versus the government being unable to perform the various functions we ask it to.
It's all a "the lesser of two evils" thing.
I've grown tired of lesser of two evils reasoning.
And I don't ask the government to do anything that would require an income tax or "consumption tax" replacement for income tax to fund.
Which is yet another reason I don't get frazzled by your demanding the repeal of the 16th Amendment!
We truly can get along in this world. Rodney King was right when he said "BRGRHRGBGH STOP PLEA- BTTRGHGHGH"
I might have picked the wrong quote there. Whatever.
No quote where somebody gets beat is a bad quote.
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