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by DuncanPed on October 29th, 2007
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by Anonymous on October 29th, 2007
What years did playing cards have an IRS tax stamp?
by Answerbag Staff on March 20th, 2011
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When was federal income tax invented?
by Answerbag Staff on July 14th, 2010
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How can I find out how many people, citizens and non, pay taxes in the US?
by Anonymous on March 28th, 2008
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When was federal income tax first imposed?
by Answerbag Staff on May 27th, 2010
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If Income tax was introduced to pay for wars, eliminating that tax should eliminate war true/false?
by koldkanuck on January 6th, 2008
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You're reading Where did people get this idea that they own their taxes, that they are 'theirs' to give away? Taxes don't belong to you, they belong to the government. They're a small concession you make so that you have things like free libraries and safe roads.
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by Halskiisaklink on October 29th, 2007
598 Chestnut Street is the address for Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence was signed.
by DuncanPed on October 29th, 2007
Do you honestly believe your 'founding fathers' saw taxes as a bad thing and belonging to the individual, not the state?
by Halskiisaklink on October 29th, 2007
Oh, I don't see them as a bad thing, on the contrary, they are quite necessary. But I also believe that the taxes are inherently the property of individuals, collected by the government for the public good as opposed to something that is the government's by natural right.
by DuncanPed on October 29th, 2007
Why aren't they the government's by natural right?
by Halskiisaklink on October 29th, 2007
Whether they are or not is a matter of one's philosophy, I imagine - which was the essential basis of your question: Where one gets such an idea. I derive mine from the Declaration of Independence (as I live in the U.S.) which says "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed" and charged King George III, among other things, of "...imposing Taxes on us without our Consent"
by DuncanPed on October 29th, 2007
That doesn't say that taxes are the property of the individual, it simply says that they cannot be enforced without the consent of the payer.
by Halskiisaklink on October 29th, 2007
But if they were the government's by right, why would it need consent from the payer?
by DuncanPed on October 29th, 2007
Because, by right, government's act in the public interest and not acting in the public interest (via consent in a democracy) makes them ungovernmental.
by Halskiisaklink on October 29th, 2007