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Show March 17, 1972 The UTAH INDEPENDENT Page 9 i i it.' i i ( , . i taxes. The very wealthy have managed to escape their share of Income taxes through various loopholes and tax dodges such as tax free foundations and capital gains. I have introduced several bills to limit or dollar deny tax dodging by the multi-millifoundations including HA. 425 to establish illegal acts by foundations, and H.R. 8298 mum tax of 7 per cent upon Incomes in exto deny tax free status to foundations enconcess of $500,000. Since then the tax has gaging in propaganda and lobbying. tinued. to rise until today the minimum rate The Governor of Alabama recently filed a is 14 percent on the first $500 earned by a suit against the Secretary of the . Treasury single person and on the first $1000 earned Commissioner of the Internal Rev- - . and the by a married person up to 70 percent on earnenue Service to remove this gross discriminings in excess of $200,000. ation. In his brief. Governor Wallace stated: The progressive federal Income tax, which "When private foundations use tax exempt takes the largest bite of the productive citiincome to espouse the cause of communists zens earnings, is augmented by in America, to promote revolution in the Social Security and Medleare payroll streets of our cities; to participate in regisas as local well contributions by State and tration drives among blacks to elect radical income, sales, and property taxes. mayors of certain cities; and bankroll the In other to show the results of excessive pro-Vl- et Cong American Friends Service taxation. Freedom Magazine in Mhy of 1970 Committee; grant funds to organizations made a statistical study of the UJ3. populawhich preach revolution and racial hatred; amount of federal the tion, the total budget financing of communists and radicals to run and the annual cost per person to pay the school decentralization in New York City, costs of the federal government for each 10 producing the bitterest sort of racial antagyean .from 1900 through 1970. As yon can onisms; and making grants to the leftist see from the chart the annual cost per perUrban League are they not engaging in son to run the federal government increased propaganda activities, attempting .to influfrom $6.90 in 1901 to 5986.19 In 1971. And, and abetting Ife much higher today and continues to ence legislation, andon aiding behalf of candidates political campaigns Increase. for public office?" PROOF OF EXCESSIVE TAXATION The Supreme Court Indicated its lack at interest in tax inequities by refusing to even give a hearing. It is unjust as well as Ironical that small businesses, factory workers, farmers, and other hardworking taxpayers who produce in the freo market economy to build Amer- r , The Personal THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX RAR-ICREPORTS TO HIS PEOPLE Income K HON. JOHN R. RARICK OF LOUISIANA IN THE HOUSE Tax ever-increasi- 07 REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, March 2, 1972 Mr. RARICK. Mr, Speaker, I recently reported to my people ofthe Federal Income tax. I Insert the report at this point: raktctc Repokts to Hxa People on the Fedxbal Income Tax Between now end April 15th. milllom at AmwtMii tsxpsyen will be engaged In the .nmiti chore of filling oat income tax forma and paying the federal government for their right to be producing Americana. So, I federal thought today we'd talk about the ueea to income tax its background, the which your lneome taxes are put, the threat which It poses to our freedom, and what be done to remove the threat. Most of the mere elderly citizens listening to this telecast may remember that prior to 1915, there was no Income tax. Many younger listeners may question how the federal government was able to pay all of its expenses without revenue derived from the income tax. The answer, of oourse, la that prior to 1915 the government waa run in accordance with the Constitution. Local and State governments performed their duties and there was no federal bureaucracy. Under such a system the working people enjoyed considerably more individual freedom than now and were able to use their earnings in acoordanoe with their Individual desires. Remember, every time the government takes a dollar from a citizen in taxes, it denies the citizen the freedom to use as he sees fit the earnings of his labor. Under our Constitution, the federal government is delegated a limited number of specific powers. All powers not delegated to the federal government, the agent of the sovereign States in the Constitutional contract, are reserved to the States and the people thereof by the 9th and 10th Amendments. Prior to 1915 the 9th and 10th Amendments were then as Important as the 1st and 14th Amendments. The emphasis was on less government and more individual responsibility. The population in 1915 was 95,000,000 and the total federal .budget was about or $6:30 per person. The people en- freedom from governmental abundant Joyed $600,-000,0- 00 Congressman John Rarick interference, freedom to work, to save, and to use their earnings without restraint. From 1776 to 1862, except for periods of war, citizens were free of all federal taxes except the tariff on Imports. PTom 1866 to 1913, federal revenues collected came from taxes on liquors, tobaccos, from Import tariffs and sale of public lands. During these years our federal government followed this admonition of Thomas Jefferson: I place eoonoeny among the first and most Important virtues and piddle debt as the greatest of dangers. To preserve our Independence we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our choice between eoonomy or liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of oaring for them, they will be happy. The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our money for unexplained projects forbids It In the disposition of public money." Prior to its adoption in 1918, the income tax an unequal tax was forbidden by the UJ3. Constitution. The 16th Amendment wee proposed by Congress In 1909 and waa proclaimed adopted oh February 26, 1913. It was the Republicans under President William Howard Taft who proposed the income tax amendment which opened the floodgates for the destruction of our Constitutional republic by providing broad taxing powers to the federal government. The first income tax was passed in October 1913, under Woodrow Wilson's Administration. It imposed a minimum rate of 1 per cent on Incomes over $8000 and a maxi- - on ng orgaica must pay taxes while wealth which their accumulated nizations, through the free enterprise system. Should escape paying even their fair Share of taxes while promoting socialism or communism the antithesis of free enterprise while at the same time competing with the worker's dollar causing prices to rise resulting in intax-exem- . Estimated. Source: Freedom Magazine, May 1970. Taking an average working family of four persons, we multiply the last figure on the chart, 5956.19, by four and get 63JB23.76, which is what a family. of four pays on the average in federal taxes alone. To this must be added local, parish and state taxes, the many hidden taxes in everything purchased, nii inflation the crudest hidden tax of all. Considering the federal taxes plus these additional taxes, a working family of four pays on the average over half of what is earned Just to pay taxes. This often requires that mothers must leave their children to work in order to make ends meet. Many have been made accustomed to fed that the Income tax is the fairest tax because it is based on ability to pay. It doesnt work out that way. Government statistics indicate that 51 of federal income taxes are paid by individuals earning leas than 515,000 per year, and those earning 535,000 a year or of the total federal inooma leas pay 72 pt flation. It is equally unjust as well as irresponsible for the Nixon Administration and the Congress to continue to propose and approve spending programs unauthorized by the Constitution and which result in huge deficits. No where does the Constitution authorize taxing American citizens to give to foreigners in foreign aid or to the United Nations. As you figure your 1971 taxes, here are some of the things your tax dollars are going to pay: 93,189,437,000 will go for foreign aid. Foreign aid has been sold to the American people as a humanitarian program for containing communism by helping the poor overseas. Yet, most knowledgeable persons know that foreign aid is a gimmick to help ld remake the entire world under a been aid Not has only foreign government. a failure In stopping communism, but it has also caused nations once considered our friends to hate America. one-wor- Continued On Page 10 Be a Winner! 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