Quotes
- Dick Armey
- Bill Thomas
- Charles Adams
- Free Market Net
- Alan Keyes
- John Linder
- Christopher Cross & The Manchester Union Leader
- Paul O’Neill
- Robert Schulz
- Will Rogers
- World Tax Payers Association
- That Yearly Act of Civic Servility
- Warren S. Richardson
- Congressman Bartlett
- Albert Einstein
- Ron Paul
- James
Traficant
- Taxpayers Are Still Taxed Off
- Progressive
Income Tax Socialism
PROGRESSIVE INCOME TAX SOCIALISM
(Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax.
Think about it, 1848 Karl Marx, Communism. Now, if that is not enough to tax our history, 1999, United States of America, progressive income tax socialism. Stone cold socialism.
I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS, my colleagues. I yield back all the rules, regulations, fear, and intimidation of our current system.
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- IRS Out of Control
- Time to Abolish Income Tax
- IRS Investigated
- Time to Pass Simple 15 Percent Flat Tax; Abolish IRS
- Abolish The Tax Code
- Pass Flat Sales Tax and Abolish IRS
- Abolish the IRS
- It Is Time For The IRS To Go