I’ll pay more if all pay something

Froma Harrop wrote a piece recently that stated: “Poll after poll, the American people want higher taxes.” She stated this included Republicans by half.

She must know — or the pollsters must know — a bunch of Republicans I have never met. In general, most of the taxes are paid by Republicans and they always want the tax burden more evenly distributed over the entire population.

Only half of those who file a return actually pay any income taxes and the others file to get the earned income tax credit, so it is easy to get those to agree that taxes should be higher. So, if you polled me and asked the question right, you could get me to agree to higher taxes, but I’d mean those who paid nothing should have to pay something.

Every citizen should have a stake in the game even if it is only a minimum of 10 percent of their income or they should forfeit their right to vote until they had a year where they paid some taxes and had a stake in the game.

If we keep on allowing those who pay no taxes to dictate when and how much we who do must pay, then the Republic is lost.

On July 26, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Ways and Means held hearings on the Fairtax Bill 25, for the purpose of tax code replacement, with the most researched and fairest taxation system every devised. We can, if we choose, get rid of once and for all the Marxist income tax system that the 16th Amendment to our Constitution allowed, in defiance of our founders’ wishes, as enumerated in the original document.

If adopted, it is revenue neutral, gives the poor an immediate 37-percent tax decrease, takes away the yearly tinkering the Congress does, makes the 50 percent who have taxable income and do not file a return, according to the IRS figures, pay their share, and makes the rich pay more because they buy new goods and taxes are only charged on new goods. The poor can buy anything used they want, untaxed.

Wilton Jere Tidwell

Huntley