The American Wisdom Series

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Pamphlet #301

Currently the largest amount of revenue is collected by the Federal government. Much more than they need for Federal expenses.

They then sent money back to the individual States as they deem necessary. This is very wasteful.

The Federal Bureaucracy is too far removed from the areas where revenues are truly needed to make those kind of decisions.

They must spend large amounts of money doing studies to determine what people in our local communities already know.

Most times they come to a "one shoe fits all" conclusion and our tax money ends up doing more harm than good. At the very least, it's wasted.

What should be done?

We should first decide what is the true role of the Federal Government. Is it, as was originally intended when the United States Constitution was written, to provide for the Common Defense, provide Courts to settle interstate disputes, and provide Postal Service - and no more. Has control of air travel become a legitimate Federal function?

Is postal service still a legitimate Federal government function?

The Federal government surely doesn't belong in education, the arts, commerce (maybe interstate), labor. What are they doing? The Federal government was formed to defend our borders.

What they are doing is finding ways to spend the trillions of dollars they now collect since the Sixteenth Amendment gave them the right to tax (steal) our income. This amendment was added to pay off a war debt, not the inventive ways that have been created over the past 40 years.

How Should these things be paid for?

First of all we need to eliminate the Internal Revenue Service. Every State has its own system in place to collect its needed revenue. Why duplicate the tax collection expense?

The efficient thing to do would be to have each individual State contract with the Federal government for its share of Federal services provided. The result would be elimination of the IRS bureaucracy. Federal tax collection could be reduced to the secretary, to the Treasurer of the United States, receiving and cashing 50 checks each month. (One from each state).

Eliminate the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution... the right of the Federal government to tax individual's income. The original Constitution only allowed for duties, imposts and excises... it is perfectly clear that no direct taxes are to be paid.

Where would this leave us?

Well first off, "we the people" would be closer to where our tax money gets spent, but not close enough.

Next Step

We must determine what is the truly necessary function of our State Government. Courts, police protection, Training Citizen Soldiers, yes probably so. Schools - I doubt it... wouldn't that be better at the local community level? State roads - yes but, they pay for themselves from gas tax revenues... no need to change that.

Oh yes, the State would be collecting revenue to pay monthly for the Federal Services it contracts for.

Local Government?

Oh how about this... each local government; county, township, city, borough, whatever form of local government the local people decide they want, would contract for the State services they believe the state can better provide than they themselves,

One check from each local government to the State each month.

Jeepers... if we keep going we can eliminate better then 70%, 80% even ,90% of the Federal and State bureaucrats that have no function but to make our lives miserable.