Honor your tax obligation by protesting our tax system

Tax day is a day that in so many ways is a day for We the People to honor our personal obligation to the United States of America by paying our fair share of taxes.  Certainly nobody likes taxes, but no responsible citizen could argue with the need to provide for the national defense, the highways, the court system, and yes… as much as I like to hammer Congress and the president they need to be paid, along with those many fine people in the government who do good work. 

It Is because of what I have written above that I launched Mind Your Own Damn Business Politics one year ago today, in honor of tax day.  I created this blog because the United States of America is the greatest nation on earth, but in that we are certainly slipping.  We are slipping, in large part, because our taxes are too high and our tax system is far too complicated.

Today is a day that we should honor America by protesting the current tax system. 

We the People must force our leaders to recognize that the tax system needed to meet our obligations should not be so complex as to create a major industry to help us meet our tax obligations and limit our obligations to only our share.  Our system should not encourage a form of a criminal act, the tax cheat.  But our system makes cheating on purpose and in error very likely.  Our system of taxation should not hamper the legitimate hard work of the wealthy and their job creation and commerce, nor should it become an impediment to the poor but hard-working who are trying to establish themselves in the world by building wealth and businesses, and it should not prevent the poor and middle class from taking jobs and building up their own wealth. The tax system should not be so complicated that the individual taxpayer needs to seek professionally trained help to meet their duty of supporting the nation, and it should not be so complicated that those who cannot afford the best of that professional tax help are at risk of paying more than what they are obligated to pay.

Our tax system should exist for the sole purpose of raising the necessary revenue for the operation of government and not to manipulate the citizens’ behaviors in ways desired by the political classes in power.

However, our tax system is all of these things that it should not be.  So I call on Americans to do their patriotic duty to protest and fight this terrible tax system.

UPDATE: According to the Cato Institute our tax codes exceedes 70,000 pages.

UPDATE: Click here for a very funny and appropriate cartoon on the bloated tax system:  The Bite Stings, But the Itching Lasts and Lasts.  With special thanks to reader Brett, my “knuckle dragging, racist Neanderthal tea-bagger.”  Funny how those tea partier myths have fallen apart in these last few days!

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