Involuntary Taxes: Taxes you pay for things you neither use nor approve of. Constitutional?

Question

Examples: You homeschool your children or send them to private schools, yet your taxes support public schools. You don't support the war, but your taxes pay for the war. You are against abortion, but your tax dollars pay for abortions. You never use the Public Library, but your taxes support it. You never needed the police, because you are a martial artist, and your taxes support the police.

Question: Should there be an alternative, such as an opt-out or an opt-in voluntary tax or excise tax, instead of an involuntary income tax?

Homeschooled: the 16th amendment was snuck in without proper ratification. Yes, the Congress has the power to tax, but the Congress is not 'required' to tax on the incomes. The original intent on taxes did not include income taxes. It was excise taxes only (in other words, taxes on things you use).

In addition, the Constitution never said anywhere that everyone is required to pay income taxes. Giving the power of taxation to Congress doesn't equal requiring the people to pay taxes.

Answer 1

#1 There is NO law that requires you to pay the income tax. This is FACT.

There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation. Our founding fathers revolted becuase of a 3% tax.

I still believe A man should BE upright, not be kept upright. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. When we as a society allow the IRS to rob an individual of the product of his effort we are-strictly speaking- no longer a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence. The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, "See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk". And that is exactly what the IRS does to Americans with excessive taxation.

There are many handouts in this country; but let's call them what they really are: a form of legalized theft. Essentially, a congressman tells his constituency, "Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you."

And no matter how detrimental the IRS is to our middle class, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would you replace it with?"

When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?

Answer 2

You are confusing what's Moral with what's legal. As we both know. There is a vast difference between the two.

16th amendment to the US constitution:
"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."

Article 1, Section 8:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

Answer 3

Should the tax laws be written that way? I absolutely agree.

But the laws are not written that way. And the Constitution gives both states and Congress almost unlimited power to take your money and spend it on any legal programs they want, whether you get any benefits or not.

Your legal recourse is electing different politicians.

But I wish it worked the way you suggest.

Answer 4

I thought income taxes were voluntary?? The IRS always makes this claim. The government should not be doing most of the things you mentioned that is what the real problem is!!

Answer 5

Simply put, no.

However I would like to see more options. Like public education funding tied to your kid, that will go whereever he goes to school, be it public or private.

Answer 6

Unfortunately for some, fortunately for others, its 'all for one and one for all'.
Unless your a hermit, you are part of society and receive some benefit from this association, even if it is unrecognized.

Answer 7

Of course it's constitutional. Ever read the constitution?