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Originally Posted by libertyordeath
How is it that people who propose a mere 10% , non-progressive, tax are considered to be the right-wing capitalists. In the American Revolution, people dumped British tea into the harbor in outrage to a 2% tax. Our current Income tax system is not only disgusting, but unconstitutional. The Constitution protects our property rights, and last time I checked, my money is MY property.
If you look at the ten planks of the Communist Manifesto, you will see how the income tax fulfills two of them.
1. Abolition of private property - we have that
2. Progressive income tax - we have that
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance - we have that with taxes on inheritance
4. Confiscation of emigrant property - we have that
5. Central banks - we have that
6-10. goto http://laissez-fairerepublic.com/TenPlanks.html
All ten we have in America
Are you glad you live in a Communist country. Personally, I think we need to take back our country before we turn into Soviet Russia.
An unknown author describes the progress of democracies as:
"from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from great courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back to bondage."
We need to have another American Revolution. Our founding fathers gave us the tools by which to do it peacefully. Let's use them to vote the tyrants out of office before they take our ability to change things peacefully away. Then, the only option would be to refresh the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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Just because we have some economic policies that are similar to some forms of communism that doesn't mean at all that we are communists. Those policys that you said that Communist Manifesto had in common with the American economic system is only because most of them have revealed themselves to be nescessary, if we still want to have a modern economy (central banking).
You are claiming that the constitution protects your rights and it does. Property taxes only go to into your state and if you don't like those taxes than you should try to end it in your state. In that way you could disagree with income taxes from the federal government because you can't stop that. I partially agree with you on the problem with income taxes but most likely for different reasons. I am pretty sure that inheritance taxes are also just to the states but I am unsure.
In America we kind of try to allow anyone to become rich or wealthy and if we didn't have inheritance taxes that would ruin it because than wealthy people's children would have an even bigger advantage, for the sole reason of being in a rich family instead of their own merit.
We also need a central banking system unless you want to go back to the ways of run-away inflation in all of the small banks and thousands of types of currencys in America.
Instead of saying that those policies are bad just because communists support them you should say the reasons for how they are harmful. You should never be against anything just because an ideology that you disagree with agrees in them.
