Re: Stopping Tax Avoidance

["John O'Donnell" <jackodonnell@xxxxxxx>]

Bruce McFarling wrote:

<<SNIP>>

> A situation, for example, where so many living
> expenses can be put down as small business costs that
> there are households with two Mercedes' in the two
> car garage and children qualifying for special income
> assistance to go to University, would seem to be an
> indicator of a lot of bias in income tax incidence
> between small business owners and wage and salary
> earners.

Bias there is, but can anything be more biased than the
condition by which the oil and other stuff it takes to feed
the machinery of production and the cost of housing that
machinery is "tax deductible" while the food, transportation
to the factory, and housing by the workers is not,. Perhaps
you didn't realize that the way that wages are determined to
be taxable is that they are "profit" over the zero
cost/value of labor. After all, employers are but
conscientious benefactors of people and willingly pay
workers for their worthless labor.

[NOTE: The legal definition of "income" is "profit or gain"
and the 16th amendment only authorized taxation of "income,"
any exchange of value for value is not income and therefore
not taxable. An interesting charade we have of labor must be
legally described as worthless in order to impose a personal
income tax.]

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