Posted by jfkennedy on 11/02/09 12:25 PM Last updated 11/03/09 5:06 PM [Newer: How to Revive the Liberty Amendment] [Older: A Spine-Chilling Halloween Read]

Is there a legal way not to pay income tax without triggering an IRS audit?  Of course there is; vote for it.  With effective promotion,  taxpayers will vote for politicians to suspend income taxes, at least temporarily, say for one year.  If people will vote for vote-brokers to nationalize health care, start wars, and subsidize financial and industrial cartels, taxpayers will certainly trade their votes to keep their earnings for at least a year.  Suspending income taxes would allow those who earned the money to keep it versus transferring it to those who covet it by politicians buying votes or distributing favors.  Who deserves the money more, those who work for it or those who vote to take it away for their own or others narrow interests?  If voting to relocate income is fair, voting to keep ones own belongings must be at least as fair, and as such, is a morally more justifiable reason for voting.

The threat of a popular income tax suspension can be a powerful counterweight to profligate spending for special interests.  It does not matter how to pay for a tax suspension.  What matters is that it is possible to convince majorities in most congressional districts to unseat the rogues in congress who represent limited interests at citizen expense.  That is the pressure needed to get congress to recognize the folly of record deficit spending and to consider the real cost cutting, decolonizing, and selling needed to get the economy under control.  Returning income taxes to the citizens for a year would stimulate the economy, as it would add to consumption, savings, bank deposits, investments, production, and jobs.  It would certainly boost the economy better than bailing out over-exposed banks, unsound industries, and failed states.  It might even get voters used to the idea and stimulate the public will to abolish the income tax and the IRS for keeps.

This ultimate tax rebellion would overpower all narrower interests in favor of the largest interest group of all, the one that finances all the rest and pays the interest on the national debt.  Talk about leverage!  The group that pays holds all the cards, but inexplicably, it does not play them.  The special interests play hardball with their neighbor's money when they trade their votes and bribes for favors.  The people who pay the bills can sell their votes to politicians who know how to win fairly without plundering their neighbors.  They need an anti-statist to sponsor an income tax suspension bill in congress.  Then watch how exploited taxpayers flock to support it.