During our founding era, British King and Parliament levied excise taxes upon the colonies without their consent. Our US Declaration of Independence declares of King George III, “He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.”
Our Constitution set up Congress, where all monetary Bills were to originate from. Our US Census was not for social engineering, it was to ensure that the Congressional representation was proportioned to the actual population, and there was no direct Federal taxation; all to undergird the principle of “No Taxation without Representation.”
Ever since the 16th Amendment, the IRS has undermined the principle of “No taxation without representation” with myriads of regulations, written by bureaucrats.
The Milwaukee County Constitution Party position is that the IRS and the federal income tax must be eliminated.
As long as we have a tax code that the average American can never fully comply with, our citizens will continue to be at the mercy of the whims of IRS bureaucrats. When the IRS is no more, that is when their bad behavior will stop, and not bef ...
