A Communist Manifesto with Your 1040EZ?
One of the commenters in the Libertarian Party’s debate of whether to endorse the FairTax pasted this incredible quote from former IRS Tax Commissioner T. Coleman Andrews:
“What the income tax does is lead the people of this country down a path to where actual control of their resources, which in the end is the control over their will, is handed off to the government.
The government then manipulates that will in order to destroy the freedom of our electoral system through the income tax structure, and we call the resulting slavery a free system.
In point of fact, it is not as the founders understood, and the only way to restore real freedom is to give people back control over the income that they earn so that they won’t, at the voting booth and in other phony issues, be subject to that manipulation.
The intent of the individual income tax is for political and social control not revenue collection. The Individual Income tax is maintained to establish and hold every person in the country perpetual legal jeopardy. That is a situation that must end with the repeal of the income tax from the statutes, and the prohibition of its use by Constitutional amendment that future generations will not face the same manner of manipulation and interference in their lives.
Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what’s happening to him.”
T. Coleman Andrews, Commissioner of IRS, May 25, 1956 in U.S. News & World Report
Wow.
That’s even better than his quote in the preface of The FairTax Book.
