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Then as I realized I had gone over to the dark side it occurred to me if Luke and Company destroyed the death star of the IRS, who was going to collect all these taxes from all these voluntary tax payers the home purchasers utilities companies and the new car dealers? What address do they put on the envelope? What if there is a discrepancy? Will the money just magically appear in congressional coffers like direct deposit? Or will it have to be handled by my state revenue department? And won’t my state departments have to employ more workers and need to raise taxes to pay for it? I wonder how they will like that idea? It doesn’t sound very voluntary for them as they do all the work for Uncle Sam, Gratis!

 

But what about the poor? Luke, won’t the poor suffer? “Of course not, they can file for a refund at the end of the year for any taxes they might have overpaid. But Luke who do they apply to? You blew up the IRS death star! And isn’t that the system we’ve got now less the deductions and benefits? He asked if I was a communist or something because Karl Marx liked the old system, then I asked, “Luke it will cost the poor thousands of dollars how will they pay until they can apply for their refund from the  agency that doesn’t exist anymore?” But Luke said, “I cannot answer any more of your questions I have other worlds to destroy!”

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