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  • Puts capital and ownership to flight
  • Distorts every business decision
  • Complicates the process of production
  • Encourages theft and deception
  • Makes liars and paupers of all who are unable to flee its sticky fingers.

A stake must be driven through its heart. The Constitutional amendment that attended its birth must be revoked, lest it be started up again from the ashes of its destruction.

Tax policy is also the darling of lobbyists—one of the reasons the tax code has become incomprehensible (and thus unenforceable). The money-trail from lobbyist to legislator has profited both, while destroying American enterprise and economic dominance. Replacement of the tax code in its entirety by a national sales tax would strike an international blow against terrorism.

The terrorism of lost American jobs.

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