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American Patriot Party.CC
Regarding the
"A" TAX
THE NO NAMES - NO NUMBERS
ANONYMITY TAX
Constitutional, Direct, Anonymous, Citizen Controlled
Protecting freedoms and security of person, papers and property
Summary
Part of the "States Liberty Bill" sponsored by the American Patriot Party.
Do not confuse this "TRUE No Names No Numbers Tax" with similar tax titles.
After reading, please take a look at the:
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
for this new True No Names No Numbers Anonymity Tax System which is part of the "States Liberty Bill";
Federal Taxes
1.) The Federal Government will only receive import taxes (Tariffs) for it's operation.
2.) All Federal taxes will be collected by the States at ports of call.
3.) The Federal government will have no contact with the American citizen with regard to collecting taxes, receipts or records.
4.) The amount the federal government receives will be decided at the voting both.
5.) The IRS will be abolished, and the federal bureaucracy involvement and burden in the states will be greatly reduced;
6.) This as it takes half the amount of taxes collected by the IRS to pay for all the regulations the Federal Government imposes;
7.) Listed is the Heritage Foundation information below (Which See Below)
8.) This will eliminate 50% or more of the tax burden at the start, as compliance costs incurred by citizens to comply with those regulations, which reach 240+ billion, will also be greatly reduced and in most areas completely eliminated.
9.) In this plan, all federal land will be returned to their respective states and counties, further reducing the need for additional federal regulation and bureaucracy.
10.) The Department of the Interior and Bureau of land management will be abolished.
11.) All other taxes within the states except toll, use and voluntary taxes (state lotteries etc.) will be abolished.
State Taxes
1.) States will have a electronic roadside devices in the same way they now have traffic counters - (see below example post for web sites that show traffic passes at these counters and an example), that will collect a small, no names no numbers toll tax amount of tax money in purposely low amounts to encourage more business and more travel from a pre paid sticker on your car as you pass;
2.) This "sticker" will act the same as a toll pass, phone card, or lottery ticket that you can buy at any store or 7 11 market;
Any number of "passes" on each stamp can be purchased from a "stamp" machine and placed inside your window.
3.) No names will be collected and no numbers will be collected that will connect the tax payer with the tax or vehicle, the process is completely anonymous;
4.) The reader will only signal the machine to transfer the amounts from what you have already paid when you purchased the stamp as you pass;
5.) and the moneys transferred to a bank account pre-established at the voting both as to what public services that money has been "ear tagged" to go.
6.) The state / county or city will not be able to touch these "ear tagged" accounts, and in areas such as roads, private enterprise will bid for accomplishing each of the ear tagged road tasks; low bid will take it and they will be bonded and insured so the amount they spend will not exceed the bid they make.
7.) When the tax is satisfied the counters stop collecting, completely automated.
8.) You can watch the tax be collected as you pass by a visible counter.
9.) The small amount collected by each pass, lets say for the sake of argument .03 cents per counter or less; will limit the reason to avoid the tax to near nil.
10.) A yellow light will show if your stamp is running low, a orange light shows a first or second non paid pass and a red light shows you may get a traffic ticket;
11.) A ticket which in this case will be minimal but much more than the tax so not worth not swinging by the store to pick up another sticker.
12.) Major Criminal Offense of Tax Evasion Removed;
13.) This also takes away the heavy criminal penalties from the tax system, which incarcerates hundreds a year at a huge cost to tax payers who pay for these "so called" criminal's housing, dental, doctor etc. for an average of 40 months each!
14.) See the below post on this site for state web sites with this information.
15.) The attorney costs, court costs, investigations and all related expenses will be no longer needed.
16.) No more worry about deadlines or discrepancies on a piece of paper.... Relief!
17.) The business "inside" America will be free trade. Absolutely Free and Private Trade.
Factors That Need to be Understood Regarding Taxes
There are three major considerations in collecting taxes that effect how much taxes are actually put to what services you are purchasing:
1.) Tax regulation
2.) Compliance costs to Tax payers to comply with tax regulations
3.) Enforcement costs which include:
a.) Investigating offenders;
b.) trying offenders,
c.) incarcerating and caring for offenders while in custody.
All these require huge expensive bureaucracies and tax BURDENS.
Regulation Costs More than its Worth
Here is a article from the Heritage Foundation: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Regulation/EM459.cfm (shown below);
You will find the cost of regulation is the issue.
Take away the need for regulation with a tax that does not require a massive bureaucracy such as a no names no number anonymous tax toll tax system, and the tax burden will be reduced by as much as 50% and more.
Presently regulation costs 50% of Direct Taxation collected. That means 50% percent of the taxes goes to paying for the services the taxes are collected for.
This is why a flat tax, sales tax, fair tax and any tax that requires regulation and is not enumerated, will never lower taxes or be efficient, as they all require the expensive bureaucracy to regulate "who pays what".
Remove the regulation and you remove 50% of the tax burden right from the start.
HERITAGE FOUNDATION REPORT
Government's Hidden Tax: Time to Account For the Cost of Regulation
by Angela Antonelli
Executive Memorandum #459
September 10, 1996 | |
"The Senate is expected soon to consider H.R. 3756, the Treasury and postal appropriations bill, which includes funding for the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). On July 23, the Senate Appropriations Committee adopted an amendment -- Section 645, offered by Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) -- requiring OMB to prepare an accounting statement that estimates the cumulative costs and benefits of federal regulatory programs. OMB already is responsible for reviewing regulatory actions to ensure that they are consistent with the Administration's regulatory principles and agenda.
While there is much debate about federal taxes, spending, and the need to balance the budget, considerably less is known and understood about the benefits and burdens of regulation. Unlike federal tax and spending programs, no comprehensive cost accounting system exists for regulation. But regulatory costs -- $677 billion in 1996 -- are nearly one-half the cost of direct taxation. And the economic impact is significant; according to one estimate, federal regulations cause $1.3 trillion in U.S. economic activity to be lost each year. Just as the annual federal budget allows policy makers and the public to debate and decide what programs to support and which ones to scale back and eliminate, information on regulatory costs and benefits would help them to determine what regulations do the most good for the money spent, set regulatory priorities accordingly, and minimize the burden on the economy.
A Good First Step
Under the Stevens proposal, OMB would be required to submit to Congress by September 30, 1997, a report on the cumulative costs and benefits of federal regulatory programs. OMB also must report on the effect of federal rules, both on the private sector and on the federal government, and provide estimates of the costs and benefits of rules costing more than $100 million annually. The public would have an opportunity to comment on the OMB report before it is submitted to Congress. OMB also would have to offer recommendations to Congress and the President about how to reform regulatory programs that are not a "sound use of national resources." This is a sensible first step toward improving oversight and promoting greater efficiency throughout the federal regulatory system.
This proposal will be criticized by federal regulators and politicians. Regulation is one of the most politically convenient ways to carry out public policy because it typically does not require substantial, direct taxation or government spending. This is particularly appealing in an era of federal budgetary restraint. The Clinton Administration has put at least 10,000 new pages of federal rules on the books since 1993. But how much has this cost, and what did the American people get for their money? Because regulators gain power by regulating as much as possible, with little to stop them from regulating as if it cost nothing, opponents will use the same misleading rhetoric against this proposal that they used to defeat a far more comprehensive regulatory reform bill in 1995. The following three myths are typical:
MYTH #1: It is doubtful that reliable estimates of costs and benefits can be developed.
REALITY:
There is no dearth of methodological tools available for estimating the costs and benefits of federal regulations. The Department of Commerce regularly surveys business establishments to collect information on expenditures caused by particular regulatory programs. Since 1981, every President has required federal agencies to consider costs and benefits in their regulatory decision making. To assist them, OMB developed guidelines for such analysis. Even though federal agencies try to avoid any effort to measure the costs and benefits of their actions, dozens of these analyses have been done over the last 15 years. Between 1990 and 1995, for example, EPA did at least 70 rule-specific cost-benefit analyses. Ironically, in 1993, the Clinton Administration removed hundreds of rules from OMB review, de-emphasizing the need for cost-benefit analysis.
MYTH #2: Any attempt to measure the costs and benefits of regulations will consume a significant amount of new resources.
REALITY:
With more than 130,000 federal regulators spending more than $14 billion annually to develop and enforce regulations, how can more be needed? The Clinton Administration itself recognizes that federal agencies -- which have been required to consider costs and benefits of regulatory actions since 1981 -- "are the repositories of significant substantive expertise and experience...." In addition, OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, which reviews rules before they are issued, has a fiscal 1996 budget of more than $5 million and a staff of about 30 analysts and economists with years of experience reviewing and evaluating agency cost-benefit analyses. During the Bush Administration, OMB reported on the aggregate costs of regulations in a publication that later was stopped by the Clinton Administration; no such information has been published since then. 2 OMB already is in an excellent position to work with other agencies to prepare this statement, but Congress must demand that it be done and that it be made available to the public.
MYTH #3: This is just the first step in an effort to justify a "roll back" of important public health, safety, and environmental protections.
REALITY:
The opposite would be true. Strengthening the use of cost-benefit analysis in regulatory decision making would mean higher levels of protection. A recent Harvard study estimated that current regulation of health risks is so inefficient that for the same investment of resources, we could save an additional 636,000 years of life--60,200 premature deaths every year-- simply by changing our priorities.
Conclusion:
The Clinton Administration and its allies in Congress already are on record as supporting regulatory cost accounting as part of more comprehensive regulatory reform legislation in 1995. In addition, President Clinton's Executive Order 12866 on Regulatory Planning and Review requires federal agencies to "assess the costs and benefits" of regulations. The Stevens amendment simply suggests that the numbers should be added up so the American people can have some idea of the kinds of regulatory decisions their government is making and how good a job federal regulators are doing.
This is a good first step, and Congress must go further and implement a regulatory budget like the one proposed in H.R. 3277 by Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX). A regulatory budget would force federal regulators to operate within limits, much as an agency's fiscal budget does. Both Congress and the President would be accountable to the public for making sure that economic resources are allocated in a manner that produces the greatest benefit to society."
End notes
1. The author was an Assistant Branch Chief at OMB from 1989 to 1993.
2. See Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, Regulatory Program of the U.S. Government, April 1, 1991-March 31, 1992, p. 5.
End of Heritage Foundation Report
Here the direction is correct to put a rope around costs, but they fall short when they ask the federal government to work within their means.
The object would be to not only have the federal expenses itemized and brought to light, but to completely separate the way the federal tax is collected and have them collect it from imports; collected by state employees at port of calls; thus removing contact with the American civilian and completely removing all IRS REGULATION and associated costs for citizen regulation (see previous detailed posts).
States picking up their own costs with a No names No numbers small non invasive automated toll tax.
This article above outlines the major problem, and that is the cost of "Regulation" (i.e. Bureaucracy).
A non invasive tax with out the present federal regulation would cut the taxpayers "burden" in half. (and these figures are 12 years old!)
Remember, it is the BURDEN of what we have to pay of taxes that makes the BURDEN on tax payers heavy and taxes so high - not who pays the tax.
Reduce the BURDEN required and reduce the tax BURDEN on everyone.
Compliance Costs
The Tax Foundation backs up this same burden, regulation is the major problem and the reason why the change is absolutely necessary.
It is a big article, this is just a segment,
go to the web site: http://www.taxfoundation.org/compliance2002.html
Links from these sites change, if so, do a search for "Tax Foundation Tax Compliance 2002" on Google or on the http://www.taxfoundation.org
Heritage Foundation Report
"In 2002 individuals, businesses and non-profits will spend an estimated 5.8 billion hours complying with the federal income tax code (henceforth called "compliance costs"), with an estimated compliance cost of over $194 billion. This amounts to imposing a 20.4-cent tax compliance surcharge for every dollar the income tax system collects. By 2007, the compliance cost is estimated, conservatively, at $244.3 billion."
End Segment from Heritage Foundation Report
This article outlines the reason for the confusion in choosing between all the present tax systems;
They all require massive bureaucracies.
This confusion keeps you from making the serious changes needed.
The reason for taxation is not to regulate people, it is to gather money for services needed.
If one thinks that "no taxation with out representation" means having representatives represent you, you have lost what was meant by the founding fathers.
The British had "representatives" for the Colonists.
This is what they were fighting against, unlimited taxation by representatives which is present today.
The meaning is not having a "representative in person"; but having a tax "representative of what item or service is needed" and no more. It is further defined by the 17th Grievance of the Declaration of Independence as "No taxation without Consent"
This needs to be very clear when you make decisions regarding taxes.
Step away from this understanding and you loose all perspective.
Real Definition of our Inalienable Rights as Tax payers
To understand the laws regarding taxes in a free country you need to understand the INTENT of the founders.
The real description and meaning is outlined in the 17th Grievance of the Declaration of Independence where it outlines what actions a government takes that makes it a tyrannical government.
17th Grievance: "For imposing taxes on us without our CONSENT;"
Consent means to voluntarily contribute without being coerced; For those things you agree to, need, and are Constitutionally allowed to government to supply. (state or federal constitutions)
Huge Cost of Present Tax Regulation Enforcement
Below is listed the Federal Census on Tax Enforcement Costs and Statistics.
This shows the high cost of Tax enforcement.
The No Names No Numbers Toll Tax or True Patriot Tax System will reduce the need for harsh enforcement as it will reduce the need of enforcement down to the equivalent of a small traffic ticket for a small traffic violation.
This will take away the high cost no incurred by taxpayers to investigate, convict, incarcerate, and care for (feed, doctor and dental) throughout their stay.
It will get rid of the tax payer fear of government retribution as such retribution will simply no longer exist.
Present Federal Tax System Enforcement Statistics
http://www.census.gov/
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/41000.html
http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/index.html
Federal Statistics OR USA
Population, 2002 estimate ---------- 3,521,515 ------ 288,368,698
Employment in government, 2000 -- 269,212 -------- 22,741,000
Average earnings per job, 2000 ----- 32,493 -------------- 36,316
Personal income per capita, 2000----- 27,660 -------------- 29,469
* Copy the post and line the numbers up under the Fiscal Years (FY 19--) and you will get the picture:
Investigations Initiated
1992 FY 1993 FY 1994 FY 1995 FY 1996 FY 1997 FY 1998 FY 1999 FY 2000 FY 2001 FY 2002 FY 2003
Tax Investigations
3941 3741 3248 3090 3278 3049 2461 1916 1785 1851 2466 2446
Other Financial Crimes
2597 2407 2098 1910 2056 2286 2194 2036 1587 1433 1440 1555
TOTAL
6538 6148 5346 5000 5334 5335 4655 3952 3372 3284 3906 4001
Prosecutions Recommended:
Tax Investigations
2073 2288 1953 1932 1944 1813 1726 1358 1043 1002 1025 1353
Other Financial Crimes
2179 1980 1791 1683 1661 2004 1801 1762 1391 1333 1108 1188
TOTAL
4252 4268 3744 3615 3605 3817 3527 3120 2434 2335 2133 2541
Indictments/Informations Filed
Tax N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 1673 1445 1260 1122 998 954 1036
Other Financial Crimes
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 1858 1735 1692 1347 1294 970 1092
TOTAL 3782 3577 3435 3384 3274 3531 3180 2952 2469 2292 1924 2128
Sentenced
Tax 1549 1635 1575 1373 1488 1484 1482 1167 1134 906 1023 835
Other Financial Crimes 1086 1417 1659 1428 1289 1525 1492 1452 1341 1332 1178 933
TOTAL 2635 3052 3234 2801 2777 3009 2974 2619 2475 2238 2201 1768
Special Agents On-Board 2950 3108 3179 3356 3335 3158 3004 2850 2740 2800 2903 2805
IRS Web sites:
http://www.irs.gov/irs/content/0,,id=112058,00.html
http://www.irs.gov/irs/article/0,,id=107485,00.html
Current Fiscal Year Investigations - Criminal Investigation (CI)
Fiscal Year 2004
as of 01/31/04
How to Interpret Criminal Investigation Data
Since actions on a specific investigation may cross fiscal years, the data shown in cases initiated may not always represent the same universe of cases shown in other actions within the same fiscal year.
Totals
Investigations Initiated------------------- 1118
Prosecution Recommendations---------- 859
Information/Indictments----------------- 683
Total Convictions--------------------------- 578
Total Sentenced*--------------------------- 583
Percent to Prison---------------------------- 84.4%
Average Months to Serve------------------- 43
*Sentence includes confinement to federal prison, halfway house, home detention, or some combination thereof.
Data Source: Criminal Investigation Management Information System.
End of Federal Statistics
Lets first look at the 2805 "Special Agents on Board" their ongoing salaries, benefits, PURS and retirements.
Alone this is far more than is needed for all the automated toll counters.
Now lets take a look at investigative expenses, fuel, paper phone calls, court filings, attorneys.
Now lets take the HUGE expense of court costs to prosecute, district attorneys, judges, attorneys, witnesses.
The fact that we will pay for prosecution and to support 583 prisoners, for an average 43 months each will pay for all automated toll counters, any employees or technicians, and more employees to wash your car while they are at it.
The IRS and the present tax system is making criminals out of ordinary citizens.
Don't tell me these people are criminal, I know some that have been attacked by this system just trying to put food on the table because they didn't quite make the forms out correctly and they have had their bank accounts locked until every bit of "their" precious money was sent in.
It is our money. Not any one else's. Tax money should be collected for necessary services, not employment, benefits or retirement for unneeded government bureaucracy.
Check your own state out, see how many so called "hardened tax criminals" you are supporting with your tax dollars.
I hope I am making a point here.
The fact is, we need a No names, No numbers, Anonymous Tax System for a free people.
This way, when there is an infraction, it is a small parking ticket infraction:
And not hard prison time, or further burden to the rest of the public for prison care of individuals incarcerated.
What it Costs to House Prisoners
Here are some articles for reading concerning the inmates in Oregon i.e. where some are those are jailed for taxes and other non violent crimes - The whole story is at:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/GoodMorn...lant030528.html
Prisoners get great benefits also:
.... Reyes-Camarena, 47, has been on Oregon's death row since 1996, when he was convicted of repeatedly stabbing 32- and 18-year-old sisters he met in a farm-labor camp. The older woman survived 17 stab wounds to testify against him.
"Every year, as Reyes-Camarena appeals his conviction, Oregon — which is struggling through budget cuts and having a tough time providing a basic education for its children and health care for its poorer citizens — pays a reported $121,000 a year to keep Reyes-Camarena on dialysis. Last month, his prison doctor determined he was a good candidate for a kidney transplant......."
".... According to the most recent statistics by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care, inmate medical-care expenses nationwide have risen at least 7 percent since 1997 because of rising prison populations and longer life span of inmates. In Oregon alone, the state budget for prison health care rose from $41 million from 1997 to $60 million in 2003...."
* Another reason the tax law and system should be changed;
We do not save money by putting people in jail from poor laws regarding taxes. They get better benefits there than while working:
These systems say "If you can't afford health care in your state, come to Oregon and don't pay your taxes.
Wah la! Kidney transplant, dentures, teeth whitening".
If this wasn't so sad it would be funny.
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People struggle and worry over paying high taxes when it is caused by our government waste and failure to simply reduce it's size and it's costly way of collection and regulation.
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See also more on this and other states: http://organtx.org/ethics/prisoners.htm
and http://www.cascadepolicy.org/bgc/private.htm on privatization:
By comparison, the Oregon Department of Corrections incarcerates 4,650 adult medium and minimum security inmates at an average of (1990) $50.78 + per manday, plus an allocated overhead cost of $6.59 per manday.
As posted earlier, tax "criminals" spend an average of approx. 3.5 years in prison. This is an equivalent of sick leave for major surgery, and recovery.
See also: http://online.statesmanjournal.com/sp_sect...?i=59755&s=2242 or see http://www.statesmanjournal.com and use search or search by http://www.google.com.
"Since voters passed Measure 11 in 1994, clamping long sentences on a wide variety of felony crimes committed by people 15 years and older, the prison population has ballooned from roughly 7,000 inmates to nearly 12,000.
When more prisoners serve longer terms, the state's medical expenses rise.
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Creating or keeping laws such as our present tax system that make hard working citizens criminals, is not the answer.
Solutions to Taxation
The No names, No numbers, Anonymity Tax System is for true patriots in a true free country.
The "No Names No Numbers Anonymity Tax" is actually only one part of several tax and bureaucratic burden reforms that will change the way we as Americans pay taxes.
The growing concerns of encroachment on individual freedoms and pressures from government regulations on truly free enterprise have in the last half of this century entrenched themselves in such a way that there is nothing left to do but cut out the problem from the core.
The first goal is to outline the already obvious attacks on freedom that has been caused by over regulation to pay for a over bloated bureaucracy;
Then take further steps to implement solutions of true freedom.
View these at the American Patriot Party which deals with the Founders intent of a free country as defined clearly in the Declaration of Independence and earlier documents that define freedom by Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, John Adams Thomas Jefferson and other Originating Founders of this country and the true definition of freedom itself.
This site is concerning, and for promoting, the only True Patriot Tax - The "No Names, No Numbers, Anonymity Tax" .
To guard against fraudulent similar tax bills and promotions, The The "No Names, No Numbers, Anonymity Tax" is presented by Richard Taylor; PO Box 637, Ashland, Oregon 97520.
The No names, No numbers,
Anonymity Tax
This Proposed The "No Names, No Numbers, Anonymity Tax" system, is a tax specifically created to protect true freedom and true control over government.
This tax will implement a No names No numbers tax system The "A" or "Anonymity" Tax (A true constitutionally sound patriot tax) where import taxes will pay for federal government and military and state toll or Entry taxes will pay for state, county and city tax needs.
These two taxes will be clearly divided systems with no gray areas from where taxes are collected and which segment of government revenues go to.
This Tax will eliminate the IRS completely.
Federal Import taxes will be collected directly by a port of entry or individual state elected personnel who will transfer the collections to the federal government account.
The The "No Names, No Numbers, Anonymity Tax" is a very simple tax.
It is simply a automatic collection reading machine on a major highways in and out of a state, city and/or county for the collection of tax money
The collection counters will be located in the same location as are the traffic counters already in place.
The major freedom factor, is that there are no names attached, no one, and especially the government, no one knows who pays the tax;
The tax is simply paid and clearly seen as paid by a automatic meter which extracts a small amount from an amount already paid by the tax payer when the stamp was purchased.
No more bureaucracy or other huge absorbent costs that go on forever; and no one knows your business, no one.
It is a true freedom tax for a free country and a free people.
Collecting is accomplished by an automated collection meter that reads a stamp that is purchased and placed on the bumper, inside window or other visible spot on your vehicle;
The stamp is purchased in the same fashion as purchasing a phone card, or toll pass that you use until the money is gone;
No names or numbers registered are kept track of between purchaser and stamp and any number of meter passes can be purchased.
Stamps can be purchased just like phone cards, toll passes or lottery tickets at any of the same stores that sell these.
When crossing state lines, Toll Tax stamps purchased by visitors and are collected in change or check are retrieved by the postal service and delivered to a bank for counting by machine.
Replacing all State Tax collections for the most part (except "Use" and completely voluntary taxes such as lotteries) with a automated money transfer; and when collected at state lines, with a branch of the Postal Service (for interstate state highway collections) to simply move collected funds to a bank for collection dispersal to ear tagged accounts.
Once the amount of tax money which has been voted on by voters for that years expenditures is satisfied which is clearly indicated in a tax goal amount on each booth, the booths close and no more tax money is collected.
Federal Taxes
This tax will abolish the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) completely
1.) Federal Taxes are collected separately;
2.) All federal taxes are collected by Import taxes at the borders or Ports of Entry.
3.) All federal and state taxes will be collected by state or county employees, not federal employees;
4.) The federal government will not collect taxes.
5.) No federal tax is collected from US citizenry.
6.) Taxes for federal expenditures collected only on value of imported goods.
7.) This tax will abolish all property, income, sales, death, gift, inheritance taxes and any other tax that requires the individual be known to the government for or from taxation or from any other government cause or requirement.
This is rooted in freedoms history from the Rights of the Colonists 1772:
"First, "The first fundamental positive law of all Commonwealths or States, is the establishing the legislative power; as the first fundamental natural/law also, which is to govern even the legislative power itself, is the preservation of the Society."6 http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/amendIXs3.html
Secondly, The Legislative has no right to absolute arbitrary power over the lives and fortunes of the people: Nor can mortals assume a prerogative, not only too high for men, but for Angels; and therefore reserved for the exercise of the Deity alone.--
"The Legislative cannot Justly assume to itself a power to rule by extempore arbitrary decrees; but it is bound to see that Justice is dispensed, and that the rights of the subjects be decided, by promulgated, standing and known laws, and authorized independent Judges;" that is independent as far as possible of Prince or People. "There shall be one rule of Justice for rich and poor; for the favorite in Court, and the Countryman at the Plough."
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/amendIXs3.html#note7
Thirdly, The supreme power cannot Justly take from any man, any part of his property without his consent, in person or by his Representative.--
These are some of the first principles of natural law & Justice, and the great Barriers of all free states,..."
(see a free country's system of taxation below).
Description of Taxes to be Abolished
Lets at first agree with this fact; The size of the government bureaucracy is the greatest reason for high taxes. In combination with this new tax, a freeze on federal hiring coupled with new less restricting zoning laws will expand growth in the private market and reduce the burden of government on this country.
• Property Tax being the most abhorrent of Americas taxes, it keeps the poorest from improving themselves; or obtaining wealth through simple ownership, development and time value increases. I know people who do not even paint their house to keep from being taxed higher. This should never be.
Once property is owned it should be owned absolutely, owing to none and subject to none. A man who has no income should in the very least have absolute security in his home and property; this is a Right guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence and Constitution to be "Secure in ones person, papers and effects (property).
Samuel Adams - Rights of the Colonists 1772:
"Now what liberty can there be, where property is taken away without consent?
"Overuses" of property ownership hoarding through financial collectives such as kings, corporations, unions, special interests, trusts or governments that attempt to consume all private land and keep it from access from being purchased by the general public and to control a free country by collective wealth and civilian dependency on protected socially controlled industry , or the "super rich", in a free country attempting to be kings - Example: Bill Gates buying all the land in the United States and renting it back to the people for a fee;
This should be controlled through local "monopoly laws" which directly address each issue, not a 'blanket tax' that sorely abuses those who can least afford it; and hold the most needy from freely bettering themselves.
It is a fact that a man should be able to buy five, 40, 160, 480 or more acres, build a mansion upon it from the rock and mortar found on the land, live on a garden he raises and owe no man or government anything;
This is freedom.
John Locke 194. "Their persons are free by a native right, and their properties, be they more or less, are their own, and at their own dispose, and not at his; or else it is no property. Supposing the conqueror gives to one man a thousand acres, to him and his heirs for ever; to another he lets a thousand acres, for his life, under the rent of L50 or L500 per annum. Has not the one of these a right to his thousand acres for ever, and the other during his life, paying the said rent? And hath not the tenant for life a property in all that he gets over and above his rent, by his labour and industry, during the said term, supposing it be double the rent? Can any one say, the king, or conqueror, after his grant, may, by his power of conqueror, take away all, or part of the land, from the heirs of one, or from the other during his life, he paying the rent? Or, can he take away from either the goods or money they have got upon the said land at his pleasure? If he can, then all free and voluntary contracts cease, and are void in the world; there needs nothing but power enough to dissolve them at any time, and all the grants and promises of men in power are but mockery and collusion. For can there be anything more ridiculous than to say, I give you and yours this for ever, and that in the surest and most solemn way of conveyance can be devised, and yet it is to be understood that I have right, if I please, to take it away from you again to-morrow?"
APP Note: Relate this to US Land Patents absolute granting of properties; and the Attempt now of the Federal Government to "Condemn" or claim "Immanent Domain" to take such land (or water by common law attached to the land) later; Or the state to condemn such property after giving consent to adjudicate such transfer by authority of the United States by which it was a party; or to create new regulations upon it after granting it with none; To encircle that land in national monument and control the inroads and water, or to regulate limits to anything with regard to it; or to arbitrarily tax it into debt and thereby rendering the land not owned but rented; when no taxes were in established at the receiving of it; or to tax it without consent; or tax without consent for things built upon that property to improve its value or raised upon it to derive sustenance and earnings from his labors; or derive any such without consent from those he wills it to; Or to impose "Immanent Domain", a power no where granted the federal or state governments, and against all principles of common law, common law not removed by the Original Compacts - i.e. constitutions, and a right that remains.
And you will find the neither the federal government, nor the state government has any power to do so, nor has any power of such been delegated to it by the Original Compact.
For once property is possessed of a person, it is any governments duty to protect it; and not to devise a design to wrest it away after all rights had been released; As this clearly established by Locke that the protection of property is the purpose of government and the reason that the person enters into society.
John Locke 195. I will not dispute now whether princes are exempt from the laws of their country, but this I am sure, they owe subjection to the laws of God and Nature. Nobody, no power can exempt them from the obligations of that eternal law. Those are so great and so strong in the case of promises, that Omnipotency itself can be tied by them. Grants, promises, and oaths are bonds that hold the Almighty, whatever some flatterers say to princes of the world, who, all together, with all their people joined to them, are, in comparison of the great God, but as a drop of the bucket, or a dust on the balance -- inconsiderable, nothing!
Virginia Ratifying Convention 1788, George Nicholas: But the "COMMON LAW" is "NOT EXCLUDED". There is "NOTHING" in "that paper" (APP Note: referring to the US Constitution being considered) to warrant the assertion." ...A bill of rights is only an acknowledgment of the preexisting claim to rights in the people. They belong to us as much as if they had been inserted in the Constitution."
See: Socialism: http://www.pacificwestcom.com/oregonpatriotparty/Socialism/socialism.html
See Social Collectives: http://www.pacificwestcom.com/oregonpatriotparty/Enterprises_of_Ambition/enterprises_of_ambition.html
Present Unjust Taxation
• Income Tax being the most invasive and intrusive tax, for which the main purpose is governments ability to keep track of people and force and control the distribution of wealth, which is the socialistic and communistic trait to this tax.
Why income tax is unjust:
Contrary from what has been promoted, taxes paid by the wealthiest, though the visible surface tax dollars paid are higher, it does not present who actually pays the taxes.
Taxes paid by the wealthiest are usually factored in as an expense in production and factored into the price of the product.
This directly conveys the tax to the consumer who in the greatest populous has no way to defer the cost.
This occurs also in import taxes that reflects tax in the price of imported products.
The end purchaser who cannot defer the tax always pays the tax.
The tax "payer" is not always the one who pays the actual "burden" of the tax.
• Sales Tax being of the least intrusive taxes still creates a huge bureaucracy to employ it, regulate it; and again is still highly invasive on the free enterprises that are subject to collect it and keep record of it. The use of modern technology to make this easier to do, is no excuse to allow for its invasiveness' on a free society.
• Death Tax and Gift taxes are wealth redistribution taxes that take a persons hard earned money or money fairly earned and give it to others who did not earn it and to whom it was not earned for.
These are not only the most socialistic and communistic forms of taxation, but also the most criminal. Any criminal theft that presents itself in the form of a tax is, and will always be, such a crime unacceptable in a free country.
• All other taxes save for "Use" Taxes.
Other Wasteful, Invasive Forms of Taxation
Flat Tax, Fair Tax, National Sales Tax, Contract Tax, Consumption Tax, Progressive Taxation, and
Any Type of taxation that retains the bureaucracy to require records, names, numbers of either individual, retailer, purchaser, property or consumption.
For more on the American Patriot Party's opposition to unenumerated percentage taxes Go Here.
Other Acceptable Forms of Taxation
• Use Taxes:
Use Taxes, which can only be collected for the usage presented, are a feasible and fair form of taxation so long as their use, amounts are real and for the exact purpose they are created; and when the adjustment or abolishment of them, when necessary, are controlled solely by the vote of the people and available for such to be exercised at every election.
• Voluntary Taxes:
Completely Voluntary taxes such as state lotteries or voluntary donations for specific needs are acceptable; However no tax shall be open ended and must establish a maximum amount to be collected for that specific need. After that, Absolutely all proceeds after collection costs are satisfied must be directed back to the people in the form of winnings or be discontinued until the next election defining a new agreed upon goal by the voters.
Taxes that are required for indirect purposes, not concensual at the time it is requested to be collected, or are not related to use taxes for a immediate service, are not voluntary taxes; and are prohibited. Such misuse would be to require a tax before giving a necessary service and then dispersing the funds or excess funds else where. Any excess funds indicate that further collection must stop. It cannot be held to expand the burden of bureaucracy (through employment, or other). Excess funds may only be used to lessen the taxes collected the following year for that particular service if passed by vote for continuation the following year only (not held for any other year). "Rainy day funds" for government or employees are prohibited.
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By reducing the bureaucracy, intrusiveness, expanse and expense of government, the amount of tax needed to be collected will be greatly reduced.
The No names No Numbers Anonymity Tax, is a true patriot tax constitutionally sound tax for a free people and a free country.
Taxes That Best Implement Freedom
Import and Toll Taxes
Some economists try to sell the idea that import taxes are not free trade;
This is however a ridiculous notion;
Further, it is not even the point or points at issue; as defined below:
The points are
1.) free trade,
2.) taxable free trade,
3.) who pays the tax;
4.) what is the tax collected for and;
5.) Which form of taxation best implements freedom.
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When an American farmer sells goods within the United States, he is now taxed one way or another; Either through sales tax, income tax or both. Yet this is considered "free trade" or free "taxable" trade. There are two issues here.
1.), the free ability to trade and;
2.), taxes on that free trade.
If taxes on trade are considered not free trade, then citizens within this country cannot be considered involving themselves in free trade, because we pay taxes inside this country.
However this is not true, citizens are involving themselves in free trade;
As they are not restricted to whom they sell.
Then what are the real issues?
It is very clearly:
3.) Who pays the tax,
4.) What the tax is collected for and;
5.) In what form the tax best implements freedom.
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Since we have already found that income and all other forms of taxes, including import taxes convey the tax to the consumer in one fashion or another, What is at issue?
They are without question:
4.) What the tax is collected for and;
5.) In what form the tax best implements freedom.
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It is here the No Names, No Numbers, Anonymity Tax System, presents the greatest strength:
4.) What the tax is collected for;
The No Names, No Numbers, Anonymity Tax defines absolutely what the tax is collected for through voter control and by by separating and defining federal, state, county and local tax collection points.
This presents absolute knowledge to the public of which governments are collecting what amounts and Where they are collected.
No confusion.
All collection points visibly display the amounts being collected, "as" they are collected.
And when the amount voted on appears in a meter on each booth as that amount is reached, the collection stops.
No need for a tax rebate and a gluttonous all powerful bureaucracy.
5.) In what form the tax best implements freedom.;
The No Names, No Numbers, Anonymity Tax greatly reduces the intrusion of the government into the private lives of the citizens of the United States; those that live within and outside its borders.
No names and No numbers allow truly free trade within the country's borders.
The Anonymity of the tax protects the individuals right to be secure in ones person, papers, effects, property and business.
Federal taxes are collected on import goods only, and by the states; and not on people; and there is no restriction on trade itself;
State, County and City taxes are collected on major highway movement, but not from any other source.
Just think of driving to your home and saying "it is mine and my family's forever";
Or purchasing a piece of property and developing it at your will without fearing the retribution of a tax by improving your living conditions.
The Problem Prevalent with All
Forms of Present Taxation
The problem prevalent with all forms of present taxation that weigh who or who should not pay taxes, or how much one person should pay over the other, is that these type of taxes take some type of regulation.
And regulation takes invasive bureaucracy.
The object is not to fairly or unfairly pay tax, because this continues to escalate unregulated amounts to the government to regulate who pays taxes.
This increases the "tax burden" on everyone.
The purpose is to, after agreeing on what items or services are to be absolutely necessary, pay for those services with the lowest amount possible from each American citizen.
The shortest path from your wallet to the service, without the money being handled, passed through a bureaucratic procedure or regulated, is the best way to reduce the tax burden and eliminate the need for government offices.
If we continue to allow the government to use business to control and keep tract of each individual, there will be serious problems ahead for this country.
A toll tax system, which the states and counties will implement for budgets, takes the issue away.
There has to be a absolute parting of government from its meddling with citizen's personal business.
Without this parting, you are simply just stirring the mud puddle, the invasiveness of personal records, regulation compliance, enforcement issues and bureaucratic implementation burdens just comes back around a different way.
Who Pays the Burden of Taxation
From the Heritage Foundation - http://www.heritage.org link provided http://www.heritage.org/Research/Taxes/cda04-12.cfm: if not found, use search on Heritage and type in "Who pays the Burden of Taxation" and "Obligation of an Excise Tax: Who pays a selective excise tax".
"Statutory or Legal Obligation of an Excise Tax: Who pays a selective excise tax?
The legal obligation to pay would depend on the wording of the statute. It might be called either a consumer-level tax (e.g., the gasoline excise tax, collected at the pump) or a producer-level tax (e.g., the alcohol and tobacco taxes, collected from manufacturers).
As the diagram shows, the distinction is economically meaningless and does not reflect the economic division of the tax burden.
Consumers and producers are both affected to some degree, regardless of the statutory label. How they share the incidence of the tax depends entirely on their responsiveness to the price changes, the slopes of the supply and demand curves, not on whether the wording of the statute charges the consumer with the tax and it is merely collected by the seller and forwarded to the government, or whether the statute names the seller as being charged with the tax directly.
" Further they discuss Tax base distortion as a real factor: "The Perfect Non-Distorting Tax Base?
Politicians eagerly seek these last two situations of perfectly inelastic supply and demand in their quest for the perfect tax base.
No matter how high they might push the tax on such a product, the tax base would not collapse and revenues would keep climbing. In particular, politicians like to believe that the demand curves for cigarettes, liquor, and gambling are perfectly inelastic.
They are wrong, but they keep pushing tobacco and alcohol tax rates higher, hoping for a miracle. They also get stingy with the pay out ratios on state-sponsored lotteries. In this case, it is those who buy lottery tickets who are hoping for a miracle.
In theory, governments could reduce economic distortions and minimize dead weight losses by putting the highest tax rates on the products or inputs that are in most inelastic demand or supply.
The ultimate example of a non-distorting tax would be a head tax or poll tax that is owed just for being alive and is totally unrelated to any incremental earnings or the amount of one s economic activity.
Such a tax, however, might not pass the equity test unless it could be shown that all parties would share in the resulting improvement in national output and income."
APP Note: i.e. or toll tax - its not who pays the tax, but how, with the minimal amount of burden of bureaucracy, and why, and for what it is collected. Much of the information economists attempt to place as fact is based on the hypothetical and is established as such by the Heritage Reports and anyone that has the true understanding of taxation.
"...The need to consider these economy-wide and long-term ramifications, called general equilibrium "analysis", is not a new idea in tax theory"... "VI. Analysis of Some Specific Types of Taxes: The Corporate Income Tax: Initial Incidence of the Corporate Income Tax.
No competent student of taxation believes that corporations pay the corporate income tax. Only people pay taxes. Things and abstractions do not pay taxes. A corporation is, in law, a legal person, but that is, in fact, a legal fiction.
Therefore, corporations do not really pay the corporate income tax. Conservative Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman is well known for espousing that view, but liberal economists share it as well.
The liberal Nobel economist Wassily Leontief told The New York Times 20 years ago: Corporate income taxes fall ultimately on people.
Economists have tried but have never succeeded in finding out how the weight of these taxes is ultimately distributed among income groups. There can be little doubt that elimination of corporate income taxes would simplify our tax system and limit its abuse.[35] (end of Heritage report)".
There is always an attempt to assume that all burden of taxes are miraculously paid by the wealthiest, who each of course shoveled ditches for 500,000 man hours within the year to hand the great tax to the government. The reality is that they collected the burden of taxation from those they derive profits from sales, and handed it to the government.
The economist who believes that a individual that pays the burden of the tax will somehow benefit from that burden somewhere down the road in actual returns is incorrect. The above article shows the impossibility of tracking benefits through different income groups;
A corporation who returns benefits to its workers may be a considered such a area that it can be realized; However, for the individual who is unable to defer the tax, nor benefit from the immediate effects from the returns of a company profit in selling the item, the burden rests on the individual that cannot defer or "write off" the tax further, and any actual income benefit or other benefit for the most part is not seen or realized;
To say the individual who is unable to defer the tax will somehow somewhere benefit from the increased economy is laughable.
An example is if a person buys a item from a company which has a tax to the product attached to it, that has been factored into the product. He pays for the product and the attached tax burden. The company takes both profit and tax burden and transfers the tax to the government and the paper work shows the great tax he has paid; However the actual burden was paid by the person who shoveled the ditch to earn that amount of attached tax burden through independent labor, but cannot write it off.
Another example, would be a man sitting on a park bench each day buying milk and other necessary items from a delivery boy, all that have taxes factored in; Then to expect that those attached taxes will return to him in a new job, service or cash;
That would be rediculous;
The fact is, when he money is spent it is gone into the ever consuming and expanding bureaucracy, government benefits, government regulations, government salaries, and government retirement and he will never see it again. And while he works to pay for these attached burdens, each day more attached tax burdens on goods arrive are paid by him.
Transfer of Tax Burdens to the Lowest Denominator
When you pay a tax on imported goods which have been taxed, the person who physically pays the tax is not the person who the burden of the tax falls upon.
The "burden" of the tax falls upon the consumer who buys the goods as the tax is simply added to the goods.
The same occurs when a manufacturing company is taxed:
The company figures what it needs to make a profit above all incidental expenses it costs to manufacture and sell a product, and this includes paying taxes.
The company takes into consideration packaging, shipping, price changes, market shifts, discounts, taxes etc.
The expenses are distributed upon each of the goods manufactured to establish the cost of the product.
When the consumer buys the product, he pays the tax attached to the product; and the portion attached to pay the tax is transferred to the company who manufactures the product and who in - turn "pays" the tax "amount" to the government..
Sometimes through a retailer who had already purchased the product and paid the tax and sells the item to recoup the tax portion and investment already spent, thereby differing the tax burden downward.
The burden of the tax however has been and is paid by the consumer who cannot defer the tax as an expense ...
i.e.. the "lowest denominator".
How Citizens are Duped by Jealousy
1.) Lets say there is a wealthy company and business man that manufactures shoes.
It costs the company .50 cents to manufacture one pair of shoes, .25 cents to deliver the shoes, 25 cents is needed to pay taxes (all types necessary) and the profit is .25 cents. A total of $1.25 selling price to make a profit of .25 per pair of shoes.
A consumer buys the shoes and the company takes the .25 cents ear marked for taxes and gives it to the IRS.
The company "physically" transfers the tax to the IRS but the burden of the tax is paid by the consumer.
2.) Now lets say the consumer is duped into believing the wealthy need to be taxed more because the shoe company makes a lot of money;
(Democrats are good at this).
The consumer enacts (votes in) laws to tax shoes an extra .25 cent a pair.
The consumer goes to the store and ends up paying $1.50 for the shoes which used to cost $1.25 because the company simply differs the additional .25 cents tax to the product.
The company "physically" transfers the tax to the IRS but the "burden" of the tax is still paid by the consumer (who many times can't figure out what is happening).
3.) Now the consumer is mad because he is told that the company is still making big profits (still not understanding what is happening) and enacts huge taxes on the company at .50 cents per pair of shoes.
(Bureaucracy loves this, and government grows a little more to spend the extra money coming in and increases the dependency of the new workers it hires for life, government wages, benefits, retirement etc.).
The company cannot sell his shoes for 2.00 as the market will not bear it, so the company downsizes, automates, or manufacture the shoes overseas and fires 100 employees to manufacture the shoes for .10 cents and reduces packaging and delivery costs by .10 cents to continue selling the shoes for 1.50 and pay the .75 cent tax.
The consumer goes to the store and buys the shoes for 1.50 and goes home feeling good that the company has been forced to pay its due.
The company "physically" transfers the .75 cents in taxes made from selling the shoes to the consumer and pays the IRS.
But the "burden" of the tax is still paid by the consumer who cannot write off the tax as an expense.
4.) Finding the company is still making huge profits, the consumer is livid and through legislation forces the company to pay a 2.00 tax on every pair of shoes.
The company unable to sell shoes with a 2.00 tax attached claims bankruptcy or closes, and lets all its employees go (on unemployment).
It's owners either retiring or starting another business where it can begin again.
The public and consumer is stuck paying 2.00 tax on shoes he has jacked up on from those companies who do stay in business (shoes made from India instead of china) and now is supporting the huge bureaucracy he has created by mindless increases of taxation without enumeration of actual need.
So basically, when the public is stirred into thinking that the rich need to be taxed more, they are simply taxing themselves more and expanding bureaucracy and socialism..
5.) To add insult to injury:
The former company then begins selling shoes to the government under exclusive government contracts.
The citizen is forced to pay 10.00 per pair of shoes from union labor.
Jealousy is a shrewd ploy of socialism to extract money from those who can least afford it and expand bureaucracy and dependency on government.
Wealth is no crime; Misuse of "power" can be dealt with by law; Know the difference;
Removing state and federal born "Exclusive Privileges" (corporations, unions, tax supported special interests and undelegated - under the original constitutional compacts - state and federal bureaucracies) will limit much abusive power. Localized monopoly laws will limit abusive power even more. See States Liberty Bill
Taxation on income, wealth or property should never be used, as it only hurts the poorest and keeps them poor.
The Rule of Thumb is to Remove Regulation
Income, sales and other record keeping and taxes requiring regulation do not work, this is because it all gets placed in hands that decide what to do with all the undirected funds "after" they receive it; and there is no controls over their use of that allotted, or in excess of, that which the money is for.
The great difference between income or sales, and that of import taxes, is that income tax requires a huge bureaucracy, implementation costs, and a huge invasion of an individuals privacy.
Import taxes (which in this plan will be collected by the states themselves for federal expenditures) tax only the product and has no knowledge of the person's personal finances, which is a better way to tax in a free country.
You have to divide the state from federal in collection so that you can see what is going on:
No tax that requires record keeping, or invasive knowledge of a citizens person, business, property, buying habits, wealth, living habits, income, sales or death, is a free country's form of taxation.
So long as we have to keep records - a sign of "INDIRECT" taxation - for the federal government and state governments, in the "procedure" to pay taxes, we loose.
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See Patrick Henry's statement against giving the federal government "both sword and purse".
Mr. HENRY. "...If you give up these powers, without a bill of rights, you will exhibit the most absurd thing to mankind that ever the world saw, government that has >>>abandoned all its powers the powers of
>>>" "DIRECT" taxation, the >>>sword, and the >>>purse.
You have disposed of them to >>>Congress, without a bill of rights
without >>>check, >>>limitation, or >>>control".
Taking Control of Taxation
1.) Put a freeze on hiring nonessential federal employees;
2.) Sell 50% of federal land to actual individuals. See Proposal #3: http://www.pacificwestcom.com/candidates/Ron_Paul_Endorsement/ron_paul_endorsement.html
3.) Return all remaining federal lands to ownership and control of the counties;
4.) Lift zoning to allow free enterprise to grow outside of the ever growing federal bureaucracy and
5.) Provide for a noninvasive No Names, No Numbers Anonymity Tax system with a small bureaucratic structure and a small tax burden.
6.) All taxes must have a sunset date.
7.) Any tax collected over one year must allow voters the ability at every voting cycle, to either discontinue, reduce, maintain present level or increase taxation amounts for the services.
Think about this. Freedom works. Let it.
Richard Taylor
Founder
The "A" Tax.
No Names, No Numbers "Anonymity Tax"
The True Patriot Tax System;
Direct, Anonymous, Consensual and Constitutionally Correct.
Sponsored by the American Patriot Party and Oregon Patriot Party
as part of the States Liberty Bill
Contact: Richard Taylor
Chair
American Patriot Party
PO Box 637, Ashland, OR 97520
After reading, please take a look at the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for this new True No Names No Numbers Anonymity Tax System which is part of the "States Liberty Bill".
Mail this tax system to your Representative.
To Reduce federal governments role and burden within the states: A freeze all hiring of federal non essential jobs must be implemented; Federal lands ownership and control needs to be returned to the states and the local counties and private non-collective individual ownership and let the federal government start shrinking; the federal government must be reduced in physical size to reduce the burden. The fastest way to do this, is to simply stop hiring them.
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