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Originally Posted by Democrat
Let me ask you a question:
What countries in the world are booming and succeeding without taxes?
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Appeal to the Majority fallacy. No one is given the opportunity to try because of collectivist statists like you in power who use force to prevent it.
When taxes have been drastically reduced,
as in the case of "German miracle" - where taxes were slashed across the board, government was prohibited from printing excess currency, and government's ability to regulate the economy was severely lessened, GREAT PROSPERITY FOLLOWED. Such is only a "miracle" to collectivist statists such as yourself who falsely claim the government creates prosperity.
If eliminating taxes did harm, then the United States should have destroyed itself between 1802 and 1860 - because there were no internal federal taxes - see below. Instead, we became the most prosperous nation on earth. Taxes do not create prosperity. Free individuals create prosperity.
"Madison’s Notes on the Constitutional Convention [see Federalist Paper #45] reveal clearly that the framers of the Constitution believed for some time [and wrote this requirement into the Constitution]
that the principal, if not sole, support of the new Federal Government would be derived from customs duties and taxes connected with shipping and importations. Internal taxation would not be resorted to except infrequently, and for special [emergency] reasons. The first resort to internal taxation, the enactment of internal revenue laws in 1791 and in the following 10 years, was occasioned by the exigencies of the public credit. These first laws were repealed in 1802. Internal revenue laws were reenacted for the period 1813-17, when the effects of the war of 1812 caused Congress to resort to internal taxation.
From 1818 to 1861, however, the United States had no internal revenue laws and the Federal Government was supported by the revenue from import duties and the proceeds from the sale of public lands. In 1862 Congress once more levied internal revenue taxes. This time the establishment of an internal revenue system, not exclusively dependent upon the supplies of foreign commerce, was permanent."