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[PBottissr@aol.com]

 The Industrial Military Complex coupled with a government with a Fascist mentality has control of the United States. The domination by this corporate global monolithic monster started with the passage of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. It was fully entrenched in 1914 with the ratification of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution. This Amendment has been used as a conduit to transfer wealth from the working middle class to the top 1% on the economic ladder. The 16th Amendment contains only 38 words it gives the congress power to tax incomes. The congress has abused the power they received. The 16th Amendment has voided the provisions of the 13th Amendment that forbid involuntary servitude. There can be no justification for confiscating more than four months income from the average taxpayer to meet their obligation to the Federal State, and Local tax collectors. The federal budget receives 50 % of its income from Personal Income Taxes. 

By adding regulations to the IRS Tax Code (26 USC) the tax base which only taxes workers incomes and profits from businesses that report profits, this already small tax base has been eroded and the Tax Code that should have a primary purpose of deriving revenues for the programs established by legislation is used for purposes that enrich the corporations at the expense of the tax payers who only have minimal adjustments to their incomes. The Tax Code has almost seven million words that are used as a carrot and a stick to steer the economy in the direction that favors those with the greatest share of the wealth. It is used to control behaviors of the citizens through the placing of taxes on things like alcohol, tobacco, gasoline and a host of other taxes and fees needed supplant the shortfall caused by the erosion of the tax base.

All who pays taxes recognizes that the IRS Tax Code has flaws that cannot be remedied by adding or subtracting from the seven million words it contains. The only ones who are in favor of a band aid approach to the problem are those who are not paying their fair share of no tax at all. The only logical answer is abolishment of a system that entices noncompliance and outright evasion that lead to the abuses used by Enron into bankruptcy of the seventh largest corporation in the United States. The folly of a system that uses the taxpayer become the tax collector should be obvious. The IRS audits only 1.5 % of returns filed. The major corporations file forms that are complex and lengthy and would be impossible to audit by the internal IRS auditors. They accept the audits of independent auditing firms and CPAs. The Enron debacle has cast doubt on the wisdom of this practice.

The need is for a tax code that is used for the purpose of raising the needed revenues to fund the programs of government and no other purpose. It must not give any individual or special interest group exemptions or exclusions not given to others. It should be as simple as possible. It should not require a government bureaucracy like the IRS to administer. 

The ideal way to raise revenues is to use a concept that was first proposed by a Nobel Prize Wining Economist and is known as the Tobin Tax Campaign http://www.tobintax.org.uk/  This concept has been proposed as the basis for an alternative to the present tax codes of the Federal, State, and Local tax structures in the United States.  The information substantiating the feasibility of using it as a single tax that would raise more revenues than all the other taxes combined. Is found o the URL http://www.taxmoney-notpeople.com  www.taxmoney-notpeople.com 

The simplicity of this concept would make it impossible to evade or be abused. It would be collected by the existing accounts that are already in place in the commercial baking system used to transfer withholding taxes from employers to the Treasury Dept. There would be no need for the government to keep records of individual taxpayers. It would create a constant flow of revenues without any fluctuations caused be downturns in the economy or losses resulting from natural disasters or terrorist attacks like the WTC etc. 

The essence of the Transaction tax/user fee is that it is not a tax upon any commodity or real property. It is a small fee paid for using the currency of the United States. It does not tax the money a person or entity has until the money is moved. To the worker it amounts to a fee of one dollar for each one thousand dollars earned or spent. Under the existing tax code a taxpayer who earns forty-five thousand dollars a year is taxed over four thousand dollars. Under the "user fee" he would pay a maximum of ninety dollars if he spent all the money he earned. If he did not spend it all he would pay no tax on the money that remains in the bank. This concept will derive revenues in proportion to the wealth a person uses not the wealth he has.
Paul R. Bottis Sr. 475 Chandler Street Worcester, MA  01602 
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