Federal Tax Reform

Of all the flaws in our tax system, the worst is its arbitrariness . The line dividing the tax producers from the tax consumers is simply the result of politicians buying the votes of the tax consumers with the taxes of the tax producers. It totally ignores any consideration of services consumed, jobs created, or global competiveness. The only fair, moral, rational, and constitutional way for government to raise revenue is through user fees for individual goods and services, and per capita taxes for public goods and services, imposed and collected in the least destructive and most efficient way. The cost of government must be reduced to a level that everyone can afford, rather than extorting unequal shares from some for transfer to others, which is not authorized in the body of the Constitution, nor by the 16th Amendment, and is forbidden by the 5th,10th, and 14th. Furthermore, progressive tax'n is the engine of the Welfare-Warfare state. If everybody had to pay his own way, there w'd be no more wars. Can it be done? If it must be done, it can be done. First, all unconstitutional powers which have been arrogated by the federal government, such as the authority to create and fund social programs and education, should be devolved to the states, where they w'd enjoy both constitutionality and subsidiarity. Second: All foreign military interventions, aid, policing and nation building should cease. Third: Defense spending should be limited to our share of the cost of defending the Western Hemisphere. Fourth: People who still cannot pay their share or are otherwise in default in their obligations of citizenship would be given, not a pass but a deferment, and as long as they were on deferment they would not be able to purchase booze, tobacco, lottery tickets, pets and pet food, and other nonessentials, nor vote. This w'd be enforced by smart card, which w'd contain each person's family, civic, medical, and employment info and status. The tax producers have a moral and constitutional right not to lose their freedom and property at the polls to tyranny of the majority!