It all started here, with this strange article claiming that the income tax is good and proper. The debate in the comments section is lively.
On this subject I'd like to offer the readers the words of those who know a thing or two about the income tax:
"The inquisition it entails is a most serious disadvantage, and the frauds to which it leads are an evil such as it is not possible to characterize in terms too strong."
--William Gladstone
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"A certain degree of inquisitorial scrutiny is, therefore, inseparable from an income tax."
--Sir Robert Peel, 1842
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"Congress went beyond merely enacting an income tax law and repealed Article IV of the Bill of Rights, by empowering the tax collector to do the very things from which that article says we were to be secure. It opened up our homes, our papers and our effects to the prying eyes of government agents and set the stage for searches of our books and vaults and for inquiries into our private affairs whenever the tax men might decide, even though there might not be any justification beyond mere cynical suspicion."
--T. Coleman Andrews, IRS Commissioner for 3 years.
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"The imposition of the [income] tax will corrupt the people. It will bring in its train the spy and the informer. It will necessitate a swarm of officials with inquisitorial powers. It will be a step toward centralization…. It breaks another canon of taxation in that it is expensive in its collection and cannot be fairly imposed;… and, finally, it is contrary to the traditions and principles of republican government."
~ U.S. Representative Robert Adams, January 26, 1894.
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"By what possible stretch of the imagination can current IRS procedures be justified under this Amendment? Does the Sixteenth Amendment repeal the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Amendments? Certainly the examples in this book would indicate that the IRS seems to think so."
-- Congressman George Hansen
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It's time to get rid of it before it destroys us.
