From: "Peter L. Sroufe" 
Subject: SNET: The Alan Keyes Tax Plan
Date: 13 Jun 1999 13:44:51 -0400
To: "Conservative" 


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Taxes & Government Spending

Tyrannical taxation, and excessive government spending and borrowing, are
not only threats to our economy  they erode the resource base of our
freedom and our moral responsibility.

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment and it has
failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago,
government had no claim to our income; only sales, excise and tariff taxes
were allowed. We need to return to the Constitution of economic liberty that
our Founders intended to be a permanent bulwark of our political liberty.

The income tax in effect makes us vassals to the government  the
politicians decide how much income we can keep. No mere reform of this
slave tax, such as flattening the rate, can correct its fundamental denial
of control over our own money. Only the abolition of the income tax itself
will restore the basic American principle that our income is both our own
money and our own private business - not the government's.

Replacing the income tax with a national sales tax would rejuvenate
independence and responsibility in our citizens. True economic liberty and
moral revival go hand in hand.

A national sales tax would also put the American citizen back in control of
national fiscal policy. The best way to curtail government spending is to
cut taxes, because they cant spend what they dont get. But with a sales
tax, we could deny funds to a spendthrift government  and give ourselves a
tax cut  whenever we make the private choice to alter our spending and
saving habits.

But we must also take away the governments credit card. With limits on both
tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to
get serious about spending cuts. Thats why a balanced budget amendment to
the Constitution, with barriers to both borrowing and spending, is the best
way to secure budget discipline.

http://keyes2000.org/issues/taxandspend.html

Bard

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