Browns say no tax law
Posted on June 25th, 2007 by bile Categories and Tags: Uncategorized, 16th Amendment, Brendan Kelly, federal government, Libertarian Party, New Hampshire, New Hampshire Libertarian Party, taxes“They never passed (the 16th Amendment),” said Brendan Kelly, chairman of the New Hampshire Libertarian Party. “They just said they did.”
Why does the Libertarian party allow these type of guys head their state parties? I’m libertarian and agree with more of the Libertarian platform than any other party in general… but this ‘16th Amendment wasn’t passed’ crap is just false. While the passing of the amendment was sloppy it happened. The part I’d fight more is that the federal government can force corporations to withhold income and other taxes from your paycheck. I think it’s simply a way to make the mental burden of handing over that much money easier. If tax payers had to cut the federal government a check yearly, quarterly or even monthly, more would vote for small government representatives.
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June 25th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
No kidding. This is why the LP is going no where. They can’t be taken seriously. I mean no one likes the IRS and many candidates have promised to reel it in, but not paying your taxes and not expecting to be arrested is ridiculous.
June 25th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
I wouldn’t say that is THE reason but it doesn’t help. There are too few of them to allow the fringe to get the public spotlight. The fringe characters in the primary parties are out weighed by the many many central players.
The problem isn’t the not paying taxes and then not expecting to get arrested (I think they are quite aware of what they are doing and what can/will happen to them), it’s the reasons they give. The evidence they put forward for not paying just don’t hold water. While the passing of the 16th Amendment was a bit sloppy it was still passed and has been challenged and the challenges have failed with fairly reasonable opinions from the courts.