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BOOK REVIEW - JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE
By John-Michael Seibler
Individual income tax payers inevitably wonder when tax-rates become confiscatory. As rates increase from ten to forty percent, at what point do U.S. citizens and residents become indentured servants? When you surrender a third or more of your earnings in direct taxes, that amount of daily labor is spent in servitude. How much can reasonably be seized as payment for public goods and services?
This book is a must read for all of us who would not be devoured....
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ROBERT G. BEARD JR. PUBLISHES ARGUMENT AGAINST US INCOME TAX
'The U.S. Individual Income Tax Is Incompatible With A Free Society' is author's Master of Laws thesis
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Robert G. Beard Jr. traces U.S. history back to its founding and condemns today's income tax system in "The U.S. Individual Income Tax Is Incompatible With A Free Society: A Legal Justification for the Abolishment of the IRS and Replacement of the Income Tax with a National Sales Tax" (published by Lulu).
Beard's new book claims that the U.S. tax system is incompatible with the 4th and 5th Amendments that disallow unreasonable search and seizure and the deprivation of life, liberty or property, without due process. "Our founders understood that a tax on a person's labor was tantamount to slavery and that is why we had no income tax while our Founders were still alive," Beard stresses.
An excerpt from "The U.S. Individual Income Tax Is Incompatible With A Free Society:
"In 'Boyd,' Justice Bradley explained... 'any compulsory discovery by extorting the party's oath, or compelling the production of his private books and papers to convict him of crime, or to forfeit his property, is contrary to the principles of a free government.' If Justice Bradley were alive today... the income tax laws... would be considered repugnant to the Constitution... and accordingly, ruled null and void."
To further his point, Beard explains, "Congress is investigating the IRS. Several non-profit organizations are currently suing the IRS. At least one U.S. Senator is calling for the abolishment of the IRS. Our tax system is incomprehensible and fraught with unconscionable civil and criminal penalties, which can result in incarceration for a longer period of time than someone who actually kills another person."
The main theme of Beard's new book is that the U.S. tax system is incompatible with a free society. "If we desire rightful liberty - defined by Thomas Jefferson as 'unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others - I do not add "within the limits of the law" because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of an individual' - we will work towards the elimination of the income tax and the abolishment of the IRS."
"The U.S. Individual Income Tax Is Incompatible With A Free Society"
By Robert G. Beard Jr.
Hardcover | 6 x 9 in | 110 pages | ISBN 9781483402970 Softcover | 6 x 9 in | 110 pages | ISBN 9781483402499 E-Book | 110 pages | ISBN 9781483402482
About the Author
Robert G. Beard Jr. is a certified public accountant, has a bachelor's degree in business administration, a Juris Doctor, and Master of Laws in international taxation and financial services. He has worked for three of the four largest international public accounting firms as a senior manager in their tax departments and has over 35-years of experience in taxation. Beard is also a Vietnam era veteran with an honorable discharge from the U.S. Air Force. He is currently pursuing a doctorate and his proposed dissertation is titled, "An Inquiry into the Impact Constitutional Interpretation has on Individual Freedom."