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It is simply amazing that Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo, after courageously rising up to fight against the amnesty bill, would both favor the alleged fair tax proposal [H.R. 25]. The provisions of H.R. 25 if adopted and enforced would not only tighten the iron fist of the federal government over the productivity of the American People and their property, but the proposal is an outright assault upon our Constitution’s rule by which the people of the various States agreed to contribute in a general tax among the states if imposts, duties and miscellaneous excise taxes were found insufficient to meet Congress’s expenditures!

During the framing of our Constitution states with superior wealth objected to granting a power of taxation to Congress based upon wealth and would leave them paying more of a federal tax than poorer states. The wealthier States believed they should have a larger voting strength in Congress if they were asked to contribute a larger share of revenue into the federal treasury then poorer states.

Eventually, a compromise was reached [Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3] “Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States…….” The intention of the above wording, which is contrary to the popular myth that it made Blacks 3/5 of a person, was an agreed upon rule determining each states’ voting strength in Congress Assembled, and also was intended to determine each states’ share of a general tax if imposts, duties and miscellaneous excise taxes were found insufficient to meet Congress’s expenditures.

NOTE: imposts, duties and miscellaneous excise taxes were intended by the founders to be Congress’s primary means for raising a federal revenue, not a general tax among the states!

Our Constitution’s fair share formula for a general tax among the States may be expressed as follows:


State`s population

--------------------------- X SUM TO BE RAISED = STATE`S SHARE

Total U.S. Population

Keep in mind our Constitution’s fair share formula represents a cornerstone of federalism and meant to protect an economic right of the people within each of the various State borders, it is explicitly intended to determine a specific proportion of a tax the people of each state are obligated to contribute if a general tax among the states is imposed by Congress.

Thinking conservatives are fully aware that socialists and the friends of big government are great at spending other people’s money and always demand their one man one vote part of the Constitution when it comes to determine how money shall be spent from the federal treasury. But when it comes time to fill the national treasury in a general tax among the States, they create every artful means to allow themselves to run and hide from the one vote one dollar part of the Constitution. If H.R. 25 were adopted and enforced it would subjugate our Constitution‘s rule of representation with proportional obligation!

Keep in mind our socialist friends in American, the Populist Party during the late 1800’s early 1900’s, worked very hard to have a constitutional amendment adopted to remove the requirement of apportioning a specific wealth based tax among the states involving taxes calculated from “incomes” [see the 16th Amendment]. H.R. 25 by its very language, proposes to extend the reach of Congress and allow a tax to be calculated from the value of property, real and personal, and would do so without apportionment among the several States and without regard to any census or enumeration. In addition, H.R. 25 would keep alive Congress’s power to calculate taxes from profits, gains, salaries and other “incomes”, and does not even suggest to withdrawn this taxing power from Congress‘s powers!

Question is, why would Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo support this expansion of Congress’s taxing powers, allowing Congress to tax our property, real and personal, when all that is necessary for real tax reform is to have the following words added to our Constitution which would bring us back to our founder’s intended original tax plan ___ a plan created by tax rebels and designed to control the actions of Congress, rather than having Congress control the people:

The Sixteenth Amendment is hereby repealed and Congress is henceforth forbidden to lay ``any`` tax or burden calculated from profits, gains, interest, salaries, wages, tips, inheritances or any other lawfully realized money

Regards,

JWK