“The Immorality of the Income Tax”

This is a follow up article to Kris’ “Is the Fair Tax really fair?”

Why do we bother to justify the income tax? Who proved it to us to be a necessity? Everyone pretty much hates April 15^th, but not everyone is willing to invest in a way to balance a national budget. When you owe a debt for a service or product, do you wait for yourself to get paid before you pay back those whom you owe for that service or product? Maybe you just can’t afford to pay it back right now. Or maybe it would be more convenient to pay it back at a later time. Basically, this is our federal governments (The I.R.S., congress, current administration, federal reserve, etc…) version of a healthy and sustained economically country; where the basis of spending for such things as national security, is that of debt and (ironically and arguably) a sacrifice of our freedoms as a country.

Now, lets not get carried away. Do we know and accept that governments, like any human based entity, will try to sustain itself at all costs? It is unfortunate we don’t take this as seriously as it is. Without getting into the specifics of exactly how and why federal government has developed in to this monster, for time’s sake. Suffice it to say, it takes the correct knowledge, perspective and courage as a people to correct a republics mistakes through democratic means.

Why is this current system immoral? Because the government has lost its accountability to its people and the people let it fool them. Instead of addressing issues that look out for the interest of the people, our government threatens its people until surrender. In one instance it could be that homeland security needs to access to everyone’s personal record so they can spy on one person, then threatening, “You don’t want to be blown up in a terrorist attack, do you?” After 9-11, I personally thought about what I am scared of and what it means to be “safe.” Basically government’s solution to our anxieties about being scared is equivalent to suicidal person being chained to their bed. The so-called “solution” doesn’t solve the problem; it just keeps ANYTHING from happening at all.

Lets back up. At one point, it was found necessary to go into debt. As a result three was the “necessity” for an income tax to repay our debt so we could have a financially stable economy. After seeing how easily the public went along with the income tax the more government could come up with “problems” to solve. In current times examples of this would be the bailout, the h1n1 scare, the war in iraq, and so on. This is a never-ending cycle. To clarify, spending to fix problem, taxing to resolve debt, and distracting us from repaying the debt by finding new problems and so on.

If you were to borrow money from your friend to buy a car so you could work, then took the money from work and decided that for your own good you need to invest in a place to live, do you think your friend would be happy with this? You might argue, well this is too simple to compare to government’s practices. Well I say, NO it is not. A system in which immoral acts are permitted does not exempt from anything from acting morally just because it is too complex to address morality easily. In fact, if you can’t understand something why would you instinctively trust that it is moral? You shouldn’t.

A cyclical immoral system like the one we have is an addiction to easiness. There is only one way to cure an addiction and that is to STOP.

Last 5 posts by David Blane

• New Year...New Parties? - December 25th, 2009
• Balloon Hoax For Bored Folks. - October 19th, 2009
• Barack Obama gets a piece of the prize - The Nobel Peace Prize. *yawn* - October 12th, 2009

Related posts:

1. Federal Spending Continued: Healthcare
2. The Deathly Death Tax
3. Is the Fair Tax really fair?
4. Belief and acceptance of the unknown, therefore, God.
5. “How Does Government Evaluate The Cost of Government?” The Intro