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Show I Page 6 - . The UTAH INDEPENDENT If I September 22, 1972 The Gouge The Paper That . Dares To Take A Stand The History of Taxploitation which we remembered Frank S. Brockway, O.D. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Greetings, Fellow Patriots and Taxpayers! If what you hear today renders you in a condition of CHRONIC SHOCK then, we for we are here are MORE TO CAUSE a condition of shock than to treat it! As an Optometrist, we deal with the King of Sensations, known as Vision or sight. Since foresight is notoriously myopic, in we should be a 2020 study of hindsight income tax history. Then, we could better see what the future has in store for us. Did you know, for instance that the light bulb was almost invented four or five times before Thomas A. Edison: Let us keep this in mind. Taxes are as ancient as the Bible. Biblically, the first mention of a .voluntary tax, well-please- d, well-vers- ed called came Tithing, in approximatley 1500 B.C. with Abrahams payment to Melchezidek, the High Priest. (1) A tithe means a tenth part of the fruits and profits, justly acquired. (2) It began as a voluntary and varying type tax. A contribution was paid each year, which was not a full tenth, and every three years a full tenth was given. (2, 3) were used in Taxes 2800 B.C. These were collected as and paid out wages for State employees and officials. In many writings, in-ki- nd in-kin- in-ki- nd d, including Hebrew Legislation payment was required of and tithe was not first-frui- ts mentioned. (4) Originally, tithing was to sustain the Church and for payment to the priests. In those days there was no King in Israel, but every man did what was right in his own eyes. This emphasizes the voluntary nature of tithing, which gave way under the expenses of War. The threat of dominion by the Philistines brought a temporary unity to the tribes and persuaded the Hebrews to appoint a King whose authority over them was to be continuous. (5) d payments and tithing became Taxation when the atotalof20! also find Income Tax mentioned in early Egyptian History. After Thutmuse (1447 We B.C.) gold rings and ingots were used in transactions taxation replaced in-kin- which The d. reality of Income Tax is illustrated in Egyptian reliefs where the Egyptian Scribe is shown as he makes out his Masters Income Tax. During the Exodus (1288 B.C.) there is a description of a tithe paid to the Levites, who in h of what turn, gave they had received to the Priests. Ramses II, considered Pharoah the of the Exodus, paid Lions share of .taxes to the Temples and the Priests; who in one-tent- ... tax turn, were given this exemptions. Using great wealth, the Priests later overthrew the Pharoah and Egypt was ruled under what constituted Dictatorial a theocracy. (6) Ancient Egypt had a program of 100 employment. They had their Apollo program too it was building tombstones, so the Dictator could have buried with him what he had stolen from surrounding tribes to be with his rotting bones. Ancient Egypt celebrated the largest funerals possible. It took 100,000 chattels and slaves 20 years to build the great tombstone. When our daughter was studying ancient history, we had the occasion to evaluate her textbook, which included Egyptian History. After our shock at reading the we mis-statemen- ts, words, wrote-i- the States expense. Thus we n cross-ou- the t Not for the Egypt hemispheres. What we really learned from ANCIENT EGYPT is what MODERN MAN. DOES contemporary situation today? other slightly developed civilizations in both NOT WANT TO HAPPEN 100 employment AGAIN and Dictatorial Socialism. (7) socialism is a method 100 where wages are maintained at WELFARE LEVEL, and then taxes theoretically are at a MAXIMUM. Let us benefit from this 3,000 years of history and .... realize that an Egyptian COULD HAVE INVENTED THE LIGHT BULB; however, we have proof they did not. In Ancient Athens, 2300 years ago, Isocrates (Circa 436-33- 8 B.C.) stated the truth about the folly of Income Tax, It would appear that success is to be that exhorbitant punished taxes have made it a crime to prosper. The end result of such an order can only be the removal of incentive, the discouragement of our people, and the destruction of our free society. The progressive Income Tax instituted at that time was such that a man who earned twice as much, paid ten times the amount of tax. (8) tax was an Anti-incenti- ve intrusion on the immoral ar IS. INDEED THERE A Bread and Circuses! In an attempt to solve the economic problems, the Edict of Diodetians was ordered. The Edict fixed a maximum price for provisions and other articles, also a maximum rate for wages. Relative values were included for cereals, wine, oil, meat, fruits, vegetables, skins, leather, furs, foot-gea- r, timber as well as wages of ordinary laborers and the professions. The punishment for exceeding the fixed prices, was death or deportation. The established, through the 16th unit of money was a copper and 17th Amendments which by Diodetians. The were destructive to our total effect was disastrous! (8) Phase one of the Edict of Constitutional Republic. With Julius Caesar, the Roman Diodetians was the straw that broke the camels back and Senate became a With Woodrow Wilson, the 17th ushered in six centuries known Amendment resulted in great, as the Dark Ages. Diodetians 21 damage to the United States year reign of CREEPING comparison can be seen in the Woodrow Wilson Administration when instrumentalities were coin-introduce- non-entit- finds great Senate. (9) SOCIALISM After Julius Caesar started the trend toward Socialism, the Roman Emperor Diodetians, some 370 years later expanded the welfare state with a heavy taxation program (325 A.D.). Diodetians taxed the Roman Freeman 25 of his income. He purchased wheat from Egypt because he could get it for less, comparison in modern times. His edict sounds very similar to the The Roman bankrupt Freeman went (there WERE bankruptcies in those days)! So, the Roman Citizen had TWO choices. Join the Roman Legion, or go to the City and join the bread lines. Once in the City, they were fed and entertained at programs Diodetians Franklin of our Modern the 40 years from Delano Roosevelt through Richard Nixon; Phases I and II of Nixons price and wage freeze, Romes collapse from within dimaxed 1200 years of history. THEY, TOO COULD HAVE INVENTED THE LIGHT BULB, but the Europeans will have to particularly doit. The institution of tithing was continued in principle by the Christians, and by the late 8th Century, exacted tithing was of the Athenian. Fascist Sparta conquered the weakened, AND RESOURCES ral of Athens. The intellectual Athenian city-stat- highly e COULD ALSO HAVE tombstones. We INVENTED THE LIGHT BULB, but mob incentive-destroyin- g 50 pound bag of wheat with demonstration rule prevailed in Ancient. MAGIC Helenistic times, THE LIGHT BULB WILL HAVE TO BE INVENTED BY THE ROMANS! Historically, emissaries from the Roman Senate visited Greece (454 B.C.) and for three years studied the Republic which Solon had suggested. When they returned to Rome, an oligarchy MILL Stone Flour and Cereal Grinder of 10 men, chosen by the In-kin- Law (Hebrew Legislation) GOLD & SILVER enforced the payment and made rules on the amount and where it went. This was a change from a voluntary tithing to an When EXACTED taxation. 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