Your Grandpappy’s Tax Code
Vintage and tradition are wonderful anchors in life. When you went fishing as a child out on a boat with your grandfather, and he hooked a worm for bait while spitting a wad of Copenhagen into the water, there is something warm and safe and gratifyingly secure about him never changing. You could always count on your pappy being the same forever. He would never change, and you never wanted him to change.
Anchors in life and relationships are the core of what makes us happy. But some anchors in life can turn out to be bad. If we still used an abacus to calculate numbers that would be bad. If we still used a black and white TV that had one of those dial tuners to change channels that would be bad. And so it is with our current tax code.
Continuing to use the current method of taxation is a tradition that has served its purpose run its course and is now a bad thing. Your grand pappy was ok with that form of taxation it anchored his life. It was how America paid the bills, and folks like your grand pappy were happy to surrender their blood, sweat and tears to keep America running. Yet America’s tax code has become abusive, and in this technologically advanced culture we live in, which itself will be vintage in 50 years, we the American people need a fair tax code that equally and efficiently pays for government.
The American tax code is more than 50 thousand pages long with intricacies that even an advanced civilization from another planet may not be able to interpret even if they had telepathic powers. The chief financial officer of the United States Government Timothy Geitner was even confounded by the tax code when he failed to file taxes on income. It almost derailed his nomination to the position.
In America today we all want simple living similar to that which our grand pappy’s enjoyed, out on a fishing boat hooking a worm, catching a fish. The development and use of technology has helped to bring us closer to that while increasing our knowledge far beyond that of our ancestors.
Yet we remain burdened by an inefficient, costly, ineffective, heavy handed tax code that must go the way of the black and white TV. It is from an era far older than the black and white TV. It is nothing like the depth and warm, safe, gratifying security of your grand pappy. It is time to cut this anchor and give the American tax code an honorable burial and renew our faith in our government by instituting a new and Fair Tax that taxes consumption.
It is time to pass HR 25 and turn America into the efficient economic super engine that can truly change the world. America lead the world is slipping, and now we need to lead again by adopting a new tax code that changes the world.
May 26th, 2009 at 11:03 am
Good point, our legislation rarely adheres to the Constitution. Unfortunately, this fact is used more often than not to CONTINUE disregarding it… primarily a disregarding of the 10th amendment…
As far as antique vintage taxing policies, I know little. But one thing is for sure, in the days of our founding fathers INCOME TAX was non-existing!!
May 26th, 2009 at 5:41 am
What is the tax system set up by our founders? I would support that if I knew. Though the Fair Tax is not Constitutional, it is better than what we now have, however if the system set up by our founders that would be nice. One must remember though that people are creatures of habit and changing the mind and the will of the people is going to require fighting that entrenched desire to maintain that which is familiar even if it means the familiar maintains being abused. A small handful of men and women will have a hard time changing the tax code from anything to anything because of this desire to remain in that which is familiar. On the subject of the TV yes you are correct. It is a curse. As for the Abacus…I don’t know I have never used one.
May 25th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
While inefficient, learning to use an abacus would not be a bad thing, I bet student math skills would go up with it. And as for black an white TV I would say we should have never advanced that, too many of us wasted our time watching the mind numbing garbage on it and didn’t notice what our government was doing behind our backs.
But to the substance of your post.
While some things of antiquity should go by the wayside the taxation system our Founding Fathers setup is not one of them.
To that I would like to press the question upon those who “know”, What is constitutional about the Fair Tax?
To replace one unconstitutional tax with an other unconstitutional tax would not fix any thing. So I put forth the challenge to make the case for its constitutionality.
Do not take this as opposition to it. Just our nation hasn’t passed a constitutional law in, at best, almost a century, so it is time to get back to doing things the right way not what looks to be the right way.