Ron Paul: Tax Rates Should be Zero

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Ron Paul supports the elimination of the income tax and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). He asserts that Congress had no power to impose a direct income tax and has introduced legislation to repeal of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, which was ratified on February 3, 1913.

An income tax is the most degrading and totalitarian of all possible taxes. Its implementation wrongly suggests that the government owns the lives and labor of the citizens it is supposed to represent. Tellingly, “a heavy progressive or graduated income tax” is Plank #2 of the Communist Manifesto , which was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and first published in 1848.

To provide funding for the federal government, Ron Paul supports excise taxes, non-protectionist tariffs, massive cuts in spending.

Ron Paul discusses the income tax and the “FAIR Tax” in May 2007:

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  • George W.

    Your argument begs the question: Why is Dr. Paul running as a Republican? Is it because he is more in line
    with the Republican Party, than he is with the Democrat Party? If this is so, then how is it that he would be willing for his supporters to not support the Republican Party nominee, should it not be him? If the Republican voters of this country decide on someone other than Dr. Paul, then Dr. Paul ought to be man enough to say to his supporters:

    "I acknowledge that the voters of this country are not ready to support a candidate who advocates making the drastic changes I have proposed; however I am honored by the loyal support of those who agree with me that these changes need to be made for the survival of our country. I am likewise honored and pleased by the recognition of the Republican Party to give serious consideration in the Party Platform of the proposals I have made, and in the
    coming days before the Republican Convention I trust that my constituents will likewise be assured by myself and the party nominee that the Republican Party offers the best opportunity for my proposals to be considered and/or implemented."

    • C,Davis

      As I've stated, Dr Paul is beholden to those who financed and supported his campaign. The people. What rationale could be made for him to callously foist the capital he's had vested in him onto an organization which has at every turn attempted to frustrate the ernest desire of his financiers, by hook and by crook, in the interest of serving their satanic majesties, particularily in light of the knowlege that their anointed interchangeable candidate was intended to lose to the usurper whom those same perditious malignencies installed into the office of George Washington in 2008.
      If you think that he is the kind of man who would commit such perfidy, you sir, are a man who has made the fatal error of not knowing his enemy.

  • Captain America

    Sales tax or capitation tax is illegal, but a an import tax isn't illegal. With a high import tax, business would return to the USA and we would be reindustrialized in months.
    Ron Paul for president
    How long is Bernakie and his buddies going to put up with Ron Paul?

    • BOTK

      Thanks for proving more and more that Ron Paul is what he has been claimed to be and what he has claimed not to be: an isolationist.

  • boomer8

    Ron Paul has exposed Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, and the "establishment" "conservatives" as a bunch of phony baloney good time rock and roll LIARS!!!
    He's the only conservative in the race! If he goes 3rd party he could very well win.
    I held my nose and watched McCain blow it, the idiot! I held my nose when the GOP selected Bob Dole (YAWN!!) to run against Bill Clinton in '96. We've been polarized and manipulated by a two-side media that deliberately misleads us and divides us!
    Not falling for it any more!!!

  • SEAN MURRY

    He is too old for the job.

    • http://www.stretchovision.com PepperdotNet

      You have the medical degree and access to his records to validate that statement?

      • C. Davis

        He doesn't need that. All he needs is the junior mcdonald's assistant managers handbook, which he's got., obviously.
        Oh, and his co-worker stillmoral is likewise supplied with the Taco Bell assistant trainee coloring book as well. So they've got the diagnostician job handled between the two of them. SO BACK OFF

    • stillmoral

      He's even too old for the Old Folks Home.

    • littledee

      So was Moses then, Abraham, Joseph, etc, etc.

  • http://www.stretchovision.com PepperdotNet

    Thanks but I am not female.

  • http://www.stretchovision.com PepperdotNet

    Yes I know that. The point is that the reason we need an income tax is to pay for all the unconstitutional stuff.

  • C. Davis

    Wrong, never properly ratified

  • C.Davis

    I suppose if one must find pride in one's existence as a parrot among parrots our proper response to you should be pity.

    • http://www.stretchovision.com PepperdotNet

      Can I send you a bill for a new keyboard? Mine just became full of coffee.

  • William

    You know folks, if he was elected and did drop the income tax to zero, I'm sure there would be no objection to all that were willing to send in all that they wanted. Kind of makes it a non issue huh?

    To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. – Thomas Jefferson

    “If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, and give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses.

    And the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they do now, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mis-managers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains around the necks of our fellow sufferers.

    And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on 'til the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automations of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering.

    And the forehorse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression."

    Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom?

    Material abundance without character is the path of destruction.”

    Thomas Jefferson 1816 Third President of the United States 1801 -1809, Drafter of the Declaration of Independence, Founder of the University of Virginia

    I predict future happiness for Americans if they can
    prevent the government from wasting the labors of the
    people under the pretense of taking care of them.

    Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826)

    • Les

      Too bad, so sad, we are already there. I don't see a way out of this mess while we are a "Mobocracy". Too many people along for the free ride will vote to keep the rest of us in enslavement.

  • Les

    I see all kinds of name calling and sniping instead of civil discourse. Firstly the Postal system would be solvent if our public official kept their fingers out of it. I know the would be solvent if they didn't pack my mail box with crap I did not ask for nor want. I consider that kind of advertising an intrusion into my house. Secondly the Roads are paid for with all the gas taxes, check out how much is tacked to every gallon of gas by the Fed & the State. That is a usury fee just like the our founding Father intended. I am tired of the same rhetoric about how the whole system depends on federal income taxes. Our politicians are currently spending about 4 trillion dollars and only collecting about 2 trillion. Much like what it has done to every household in America, this is about to come home to roost. 700 Billion is all that is spent on Defense out of this 4 trillion nightmare. Nobody seems to as where the other 3.2 trillion is going.
    I have a real issue with the how the IRS is allowed to steal us blind by seizing our assets without due process of law. That needs to stop now. This country stopped being a "Republic for which it Stands" a long time ago. We have slowly been sold down the river of Democracy which our own Military labelled "Mobocracy" in 1935. Look up the difference and you all might learn something. Remember to keep it civil, the government, via General Dynamics thanks to DHS, is watching everything now.

  • Doug

    All things considered…I think Dr. Paul was suggesting there are other options! They call Dr. Paul crazy because he is willing to be honest in his comments….and to many people are willing to jump right on these statements as if to suggest he hasn't given any thought to them!! But the truth is INSANITY is doing the Same Old Things Over and Again expecting a Different Outcome!! Haven't we seen the same people in Washington doing the Same Things over and again…expecting We The People to Expect a Different Outcome…Are We The People INSANE??? Obama flies Air Force One with a Logo of Pepsi on its side…and we suggest that Dr. Paul is the One We Should be Concerned with!! We have Seen first hand the results of the current Governments thinking and yet we are willing to suggest it is Dr. Paul that is Insane!! Americans if you Do Not Start to Look at Other Options at the top and in Congress…We Are Going To Get What We Deserve!! Which would be fine if there weren't Children depending on us to do the Right things! In God I Do Trust!!! Go Americans!!!

  • Pegi

    He's probably right that the income tax levy is unconstitutional however the taxes he proposes to cover federal goverment expenses wouldn't suffice even with deep cuts. Don't think most folks would object to paying a flat tax of some sort to cover defense spending and a few other things. Deep cuts and abolishment of many departments would be fine but some like the military and intelligence areas would need funding. Zero percent taxation sounds great but wouldn't be practical. A 10% tax sounds about right after removing all other taxes like the federal gas tax..

  • JMJ

    Some days Ron Paul sounds good: and then: he opens his mouth. What did Jesus say? Render to Caesar what is Caesar's & to God what is God's. In other words pay your taxes, but the taxes should be fair, unlike what Obama & his fiends are trying to do. Is there any hope in Nov.? Doesn't look so. +JMJ+

  • http://thenewamericanspirit.com/bill_of_rights_history/ Bill of Rights

    I am still shocked by the amount of people that have no clue that there is no law in any US tax code that states that an individual is required to pay taxes! "Freedom to Fascism" is a great movie to watch in this subject. Average people have no clue that before 1913 THERE WERE NO INCOME TAXES!!! The government operated just fine back then too . . . if not better.

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