Weekly Update --- True Civil Libertarians Must Oppose the IRS
By defending all liberty — no matter if it is classified as economic liberty or civil liberty — we can best protect against violations of any liberties.
By defending all liberty — no matter if it is classified as economic liberty or civil liberty — we can best protect against violations of any liberties.
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Progressives And The IRS
00:03:06
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| Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report. | |
| True civil libertarians must oppose the IRS. | |
| Progressives who work to end individual rights violations committed by the NSA, the FBI, the DEA, the CIA, and other federal agencies usually overlook or even support the routine violations of Americans' rights by the IRS. | |
| For example, progressives rarely, if ever, speak out against the IRS's targeting of the opponents of those in power. | |
| When liberal Democrats control the White House, the IRS targets advocates of free markets. | |
| When the Hawkish Republicans are in power, the IRS targets anti-war activists. | |
| The Democrats' election reform legislation would require political organizations to divulge their top donors. | |
| Such donor disclosures requirements can be and have been used to intimidate donors from supporting controversial causes. | |
| Yet the requirements are supported by many progressives in the name of getting big money out of politics. | |
| In order to pay for their massive spending schemes, President Biden and his congressional allies are planning a huge increase in the IRS budget. | |
| The declared purpose is to enable the tax agency to bring into the government much more money by ramping up efforts to identify and punish those not paying the proper amount of taxes. | |
| The tax code's complexity guarantees many innocent Americans will be caught in the IRS's expanded net. | |
| Yet progressives will support this because they favor the new social programs the new revenue will finance and because they believe the IRS will only target billionaires and big corporations. | |
| The truth is that most of the new revenue will be collected from the middle and working class. | |
| These Americans will be targeted because unlike billionaires and big corporations, middle and working class Americans cannot afford legions of tax lawyers and accountants to level the playing field between them and the tax agency. | |
| They are more likely to simply give in to the IRS's demands. | |
| Waiters and waitresses may have been subjected to audits to ensure that they are paying taxes on their tips. | |
| Another frightening proposal is for the government to impose a mileage tax to fund highway construction. | |
| A mileage tax would require government to keep track of how many miles every American drives. | |
| Some claim that a mileage tax can be implemented without creating a massive new system of government surveillance. | |
| Even if this were true, anyone who expects the government not to use this new power for nefarious purposes needs to Google Edward Snowden. | |
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Progressives And Liberty
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| Progressives' blind spot toward the IRS abuses of liberty is rooted in their belief that one can separate economic liberties from civil liberties. | |
| This allows them to support an abusive tax system to find a welfare state and for an increasing number of progressives, a warfare state, while opposing other infringements on liberty. | |
| These progressives are the mere image of conservatives who defend economic liberty while supporting government infringements on personal lifestyle choices. | |
| One of the most urgent tasks of those who wish to restore a free society in all areas is to end the artificial distinction between economic and civil liberties. | |
| By defending all liberty, no matter if it's classified as an economic liberty or civil liberty, we can best protect against violations of any liberties. | |