Originally Posted by Robbie

Just reading a lot of folks saying that you would have to live on an island by yourself like Gilligans Island without income tax.

A yearly federal income tax (not counting national emergencies) is less than a hundred years old.
It was unconstitutional until the Congress MADE an ammendment to the constition (the 16th) legalizing it in 1913 (funny how that worked huh?)

Yes...we could build roads without taxing citizens income. Yes we would still have public education (it's paid for by property taxes). Yes, we could still have a national DEFENSE without taxing citizens individual income.
Yes, we could even have Social Security by setting up individual accounts for each citizen so it's THEIR money paying for themselves.

No...we couldn't have our military occupying over TWO HUNDRED countries. No...we couldn't have Congress having lifetime health care and benefits. No...we couldn't have every congressman having a huge staff. No...we couldn't have all the pork barrel spending that politicians funnel money back to their cronies in their home states.

But yes...we could still have roads (paid for right now by the gasoline tax that Clinton put in). And schools would still be here (paid for by local property taxes).

And politicians would have to have real jobs and spend more time at home instead of living in Washington and being in Congress for 60 years.