Income Tax and your Personal Privacy

The government needs money, and they can tax, but is it part of taxation to lose ones privacy? The answer should be a big NO.

The Income Tax is the worst form of Tax Collection.

You are forced to bare all to the government, and also relinquish your constitutional rights. Specifically your 5th Amendment Right Against Self Incrimination. You are also forced to sign your tax return under penalty of perjury. These two things turn collecting taxes from a civil debt into a possible criminal activity. The difference between using tax loopholes, and avoiding taxes may not be decided by your intent but by the government trying to extort these personal gains as taxes.

To make things worse, the government changes the tax forms and requirements yearly. This forces most people to have to pay for getting professionals to do their taxes. Or to at least get new software updates when they do their own taxes.

Income Taxes were not part of the US Constitution,

• they were added first in the 1860s. Then again in 1913 through a very suspicious act by a very suspicious democrat President. Look it up.

• Over the years, the taxes got more and more extensive and more complex and the Internal Revenue Code now has volumes of books which are revised yearly.

You the voter, have allowed this spiral to hell by not questioning your politicians on coming up with a better tax system, and why they can't or won't reduce the size and scope of the government.

• Remember every superfluous government employee, and department is a tax burden to the tax payer.

There are many reasons to get rid of the Federal Income Tax System.

1. The Internal Revenue Code (IRC) is filled with tax exclusions and loopholes that can only be used by the rich and the very rich.
2. Income Tax is too invasive of personal privacy just to exact a tax on the people.
3. Income Tax is too complex for the average person, and it usually requires specialized help. This costs money and time. It is involuntary servitude of the tax payers.
4. Income Tax forces the taxpayer to relinquish some of their constitutional rights afforded them by the 5th Amendment. It also requires that you sign the form under penalty of perjury. Not doing so makes filing the form invalid, and thereby puts you in jeopardy of the crime of tax evasion. It also forces you to become a witness against yourself by forcing under the penalty of perjury that you have provided all income from any source legal or criminal.
5. Income Tax laws change every year and that means that people cannot commit to a business plan to maximize their income.
6. Many business decisions are made based on the tax implications, rather than the soundness of the plan.
7. The Income Tax System has its own courts and procedures that violate or diminish your constitutional protection.
8. No interest is paid to you for excessive tax with-holdings, while penalties for not paying enough taxes goes back to the tax due date and has significant interest and penalties.
9. The Income Tax System comes with heavy civil and criminal threats from the government just to pay the tax. This includes putting your 4th Amendment Constitutional Rights on diminished capacity.
10. The Income Tax can be easily avoided by the rich and powerful, while very difficult to do by the middle class.
11. The Income Tax system is progressive which should make it discriminatory. I don't think that it is right to penalize any class. Maybe the rich would pay more taxes, and avoid taxes if they were equal to everyone.
12. The Internal Revenue Service is very costly to the US Taxpayer, and getting rid of the Income Tax System would reduce their size dramatically..

A National Sales Tax would be the answer.

I would point out that the National Sales Tax should totally replace the current Federal Income Tax System that is based on the Internal Revenue Code (IRC).

• I mention this because some politicians was a National Sales Tax or Value Added Tax created in Addition to the IRC system.

If implemented correctly the National Sales Tax could produce more revenue for the Federal Government while reducing the time and overhead of complex documentation and loop holes.

When something that is taxable is purchased the tax is immediately paid to the government. At least as fast as the State Sales Taxes are paid. In any case, light years ahead of the current Income Tax System, and with minimal overhead by the government to verify this revenue.

For the taxpayers there would not be tedious record keeping, or withholding taxes on their pay check compared with the Income Tax System. Yes, it would put a lot of accountants out of the tax business, and it should reduce the size of the Internal Revenue System, and even reduce the size of a lot of law firms, but I dream on.

The Federal Government and many state governments like California make income tax returns very invasive and entirely too complex for the average tax payer.

Why should it be necessary to produce your day to day life just to pay taxes.

It is bad enough that our privacy has been violated by the Internet and businesses. It is sad that most of your life can be reconstructed at will by the IRS, State Government and Businesses. Businesses that use the club approach to retaining customers have a very large database of customer personal information as well as their spending record and habits.

You join these clubs like Costco, supermarkets and any place that you spend money, they then have all of your purchases on their computers. Even if you pay cash, you need to use your card so tag your it. There is no telling what they do with all that information, and what would happen if it got into the wrong hands.

The government needs taxes, and the people need privacy. The current system really diminishes our constitutional protections for the sake of collecting taxes. Or is there a purpose for Income Tax beyond getting revenue from taxes? Is it possible that this tax system is just a front for the government to get information about the people that can't legally or easily be attained otherwise. Is the concept and implementation of Big Brother behind keeping the Income Tax System..

With the National Sales Tax System the pretense of the government to need a lot of information about your life will be minimized.

Personal Privacy

I believe that if there was ever any battle to protect personal privacy, the battle has been lost.

The government has always been into your business, but now with the Internet and super computers there is little that is not known about you. There is a lot of information available about each of us, and while some of it costs a fee to get it, it is there for the taking. Not only can the Federal, State and Local governments get the information from your tax forms, they can also get your Internet trail.

Businesses and even individuals can get what they call public record information, but in reality is more than that kind of information from your online activities, and record searches. For a fee, your life and most of its details

Saying that you have nothing to hide, doesn't mean that someone cannot steal your identify and make your existence disappear. Your Social Security Number is your tracking device, and it is also your identity. If someone takes it from you, than you have to prove who you are and that is difficult when the Social Security Number is the key to identity proof.

It is just a matter of time when the political geniuses will give us a compelling argument for putting a radio frequency (RF) chip somewhere in our body. The argument will not mention tracking, but that would be its real purpose.

We already have the private sector using our cell phones with GPS to track our every move. The cell phones also capture and track all of our calls, emails, and texts in addition to where we are when we are using them.

All of our Internet communications, and purchases are recorded. While a National Sales Tax wouldn't save our personal privacy, it would reduce that invasion of it caused by the current Federal Income Tax System.