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Originally Posted by StickyGreen
I bet you think income taxes go to pay for the operations of the government, don't you?
Did you know that the IRS was created in the same year as the privately owned Federal Reserve? 1913?
Why do you think that is?
It's because your income taxes are used to pay for the INTEREST on the money LOANED to our government by the Federal Reserve.
Before 1913 there were NO income taxes, and the government ran just fine.
These are simple truths that most Americans do not understand, and that is why most think Ron Paul's ideas are "crazy."
(if you want to get technical, yes there were temporary "war-time income taxes," but for the most part there was no income tax in the years before 1913)
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So if you just shut the fed down completely and gave the money from income taxes directly to the government it doesn't change the fact that we spend a shitload of money. If you cut out all those taxes it would be billions and billions that would suddenly not be there. In order to avoid massive debt there would have to be enormous cuts. Some of the places he would cut I agree with, but some of them sound kind of crazy. It is because he has an undying faith in the free market and I happen to think in the modern age the free market is a rabid, hungry wolf that will eat her young and anyone without millions in the bank are the young.
It is all good in theory, actually carrying it out is another thing all together.