
President Donald Trump has called for returning the federal government to a tariff system and abolishing the income tax completely. Stupid people are opposed to this plan.
Some of us predicted that this was the trajectory that Donald Trump seemed to be on toward the end of his first term in office. Can you think of a single policy that Donald Trump could enact that would benefit your life more than getting rid of the income tax system?
Here is the announcement that President Trump made while addressing the Congressional Institute:
Trump proposes ending the income tax and replacing it with tariffs.
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When the Constitution was written, tariffs were how the federal government was supposed to be funded. There was no income tax until 1913.
The 16th Amendment, which established the income tax in 1913, was an effort by late 19th and early 20th century communists in America. The idea of a “progressive income tax,” where you pay more taxes if you make more money (and can therefore never get ahead in life) comes straight out of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto.
The income tax and a central bank with a monopoly on currency (the Federal Reserve) is in chapter 2 of The Communist Manifesto if you’re interested, along with public schools and other dumb communist ideas. These ideas can be found nowhere in the Constitution.
The income tax was sold to the American people by way of typical communist propaganda that took advantage of class envy. Americans were promised that the tax would only be 1%, and it would only apply to Americans who “unfairly” earned more than $1 million per year. That was an enormous sum of money in those days.
How is that working out for everyone?
According to the Taxpayer Advocate Service, the average American spends 13 hours and around $240 out-of-pocket to file an annual federal tax return. The average small business spends 82 hours and $2,900 to file its taxes.
My 2023 tax return was 51 pages long. It takes me two days to fill everything out. At the end of that hellish process, I signed my name to it promising that I didn’t make any mistakes, even though I never have any idea whether I’ve goofed anything up. I then wrote a check to the IRS that is so enormous that it makes me want to jump off a bridge. Now I get to wait seven years to see whether they go back and catch some mistake I made so they can punish me further.
What sort of largesse do I receive in return from the federal government for sending them money that could have been used to benefit my children? Gobs of cash spent on wars in Ukraine and Israel that I do not support and which have nothing to do with my life.
According to former Rep. Bill Posey (R-FL), who just retired from Congress, federal employees at the Department of Agriculture spent taxpayer money last year on “Ozzy Osbourne concert tickets, tattoos, lingerie, bartender school tuition, car payments, and cash advances.”
Our tax dollars also get spent on ridiculous things like federal studies to determine why transgender prostitutes in Brazil tend to catch more venereal diseases than the general public. This is not a joke btw, this was an actual study.
The federal government can’t even fill in a pothole these days, and for the past four years has proven itself incapable of even preventing an invasion of our country. Why do any of us pay taxes at all?
People who complain that tariffs will raise the cost of goods for Americans do not understand how tariffs work. The first thing that China will do when President Trump imposes tariffs against them is devalue their currency. This means the dollars in your pocket will have more value in comparison to “Made in China” products. You might not get a pay raise at work and you might not have more money in your wallet, but the dollars that you have are worth more.
That’s what’s going to happen with every country that wants access to the American consumer market; You become richer because of Trump’s trade protection, as opposed to poorer under so-called “free trade.”
We don’t know all the details of Trump’s new tax proposal yet. He’s keeping that close to his vest at this point. It is a workable and achievable plan if you think about it from a high-level view. Could tariffs replace all current federal spending? Absolutely not.
That’s because the federal government is too bloated and pointless. The idea of replacing income taxes with tariffs becomes much more achievable, however, after you eliminate the Department of Education, the Bureau of Redundancy, the Agency for Pointless Paper-Pushing, and a host of other ridiculous federal programs.
If President Trump successfully abolishes the income tax, he will go down in history as the most beloved president of all time—and I will gladly vote for him again in 2028!
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